Université de Sherbrooke des études supérieures en direction chorale

Vous envisagez poursuivre des études supérieures en direction chorale?
Compléter une demande d’admission ou aidez-nous à promouvoir nos programmes en transférant ce courriel à votre réseau de contacts.

Suivez une formation dynamique et pratique offerte à temps partiel au Campus de Longueuil de l’Université de Sherbrooke sur la Rive Sud de Montréal.

Cliquez ici pour accéder aux renseignements sur nos programmes.
https://www.usherbrooke.ca/flsh/fileadmin/sites/musique/Bulletins_musique/25320_Mait_Direction_Chorale_Standard.pdf

Université de Sherbrooke Graduate Studies in Choral Conducting

Interested in graduate studies in choral conducting or know someone who might be?
Apply now or help us promote this dynamic and practical part-time training program.

Consider our programs at the Longueuil Campus of Université de Sherbrooke on the south shore of Montreal.

Find answers to your questions about the programs here:
https://www.usherbrooke.ca/flsh/fileadmin/sites/musique/Bulletins_musique/25320_Master_Choral_Conducting.pdf 

Join us for the One Earth Choir 201

Your Voice for One Earth Choir on the February 21, 2013. One common language on earth, represented by music.

• One day – 21. 02. every year
• One hour – 11:00 Greenwich mean time
• Seven continents, people in cities wherever
• One global video transmission
• Choirs schools theatres orchestras companies associations & you will sing - perform - listen together to the same music simultaneously, conducted by the same conductor.

Read more about how it will happen. Subscribe on www.OneEarthChoir.net

ÌNIN - One Earth Choir is in Affiliate Partnership with the International Federation for Choral Music IFCM.

Call for Submissions: NCCO Choral Music Series 2013 NCCO Conference, College of Charleston October 31–November 2, 2013

 The National Collegiate Choral Organization is pleased to announce a call for submissions to the NCCO Choral Music Series. In 2011, four outstanding choral compositions were selected for the series and presented in a literature session at the 2011 NCCO Conference held November 3–5 in Fort Collins, CO. NCCO invites submissions to be chosen and presented at the 2013 NCCO Conference to be held October 31–November 2 in Charleston, SC.

Submission deadline for consideration: April 1, 2013 
Final selections announced will be announced June 1, 2013

CHORAL CONCERT, with host Peter Togni Sunday, January 27, 2013 9:00 - 11:00 am, (9:30 - 11:30 NT) on CBC Radio 2

Choral Concert: The “Dead of Winter” edition

England, Finland, Russia and northern Germany - on this mid-winter Sunday Peter Togni will bring you music from the north.

Not that we planned it this way, we started off with a beautiful live concert with the Vancouver Chamber Choir called “The English Touch”. Once we had decided on that we went looking for something special that would compliment it, and we just kept on finding music that was from other northern countries.

So on this Sunday’s dead of winter edition of Choral Concert you will hear the Vancouver Chamber Choir doing 500 years of great British choral music - but you’ll also hear lots of other great northern music, starting with Jean Sibelius, and the Helsinki University Chorus in a performance of his very rousing “Patriotic Songs”.

Go to  CBCMUSIC.CA and check out the new choral stream!!!!  A 24/7 collection of a wide choral gems from J.S. Bach to John Rutter. Perfect programming for choral music lovers performed by some of our greatest choirs like the Elmer Iseler Singers, The Elora Festival Singers and Musica Intima.

Patricia Abbott Receives the Diamond Jubilee Medal

Pat Abbott (left) being presented with the Diamond Jubilee Medal by her Member of Parliament, Ève Péclet, in her home riding of Pointe-de-l’Île (Montreal). Photo credit: Yvan Fortin

Former ACCC Executive Director (1993-2009) Patricia Abbott was presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal on January 14 in recognition of her work in the choral community and in particular for her work in sharing her passion for music and singing with young people.

The medal was created to mark the 60th anniversary of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the Throne, and is being presented to 60,000 Canadians from all walks of life for their contributions and distinguished service to their community and to the country.

Pat is now the artistic director of the CAMMAC Lake MacDonald Music Centre and continues to conduct the Chorale du Gesù, the English Montreal School Board Chorale, the Ensemble vocal Cantivo and Les Voix du Carrefour. She is an instructor in choral conducting at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music. She also serves on the artistic committee of the Polyfollia International Choral Festival in France and continues to give of her time to ACCC in the area of communications.

La médaille du Jubilé de diamant de la reine présentée à Patricia Abbott

Patricia Abbott (à gauche) lors de la remise de la médaille par sa Députée fédérale, Ève Péclet, dans sa circonscription de Pointe-de-l’Île (Montréal). Crédit photo: Yvan Fortin

L’ancienne Directrice générale de l’ACCC (1993-2009) Patricia Abbott a reçu la Médaille du Jubilé de diamant de la reine Elizabeth II le 14 janvier en reconnaissance de travail dans le milieu chorale et en particulier pour avoir partagé sa passion pour la musique et le chant avec les jeunes.

La médaille souligne le 60e anniversaire de l’accession au trône de la reine Elizabeth II. Elle sera décernée à 60 000 Canadiens et Canadiennes de tous les milieu pour leur contribution et services rendus à leur collectivité et au pays.

Patricia est maintenant directrice artistique du Centre musical CAMMAC au lac MacDonald et dirige toujours la Chorale du Gesù, la Chorale de la Commission scolaire English-Montréal, l’Ensemble vocal Cantivo et Les Voix du Carrefour. Elle enseigne la direction chorale à l’école de musique Schulich de l’université McGill. Membre du comité artistique du Festival international Polyfollia en France et elle continue de donner de son temps à l’ACCC surtout dans le domaine des communications.

CHORAL CONCERT, with host Peter Togni Sunday, January 20, 2013 9:00 - 11:00 am, (9:30 - 11:30 NT) on CBC Radio 2

Choral Concert celebrates the anthem

This week on Choral Concert Peter Togni celebrates one of the great choral traditions of the western world – the anthem!

The anthem is a huge part of the Anglican church music tradition, and some of  England’s greatest composers have written them.

We will hear from everyone from Thomas Tallis, Henry Purcell and the great George Frederic Handel, in performances by the Swedish Radio Choir, the Elora Festival Singers and The Sixteen.

Go to  CBCMUSIC.CA and check out the new choral stream!!!!  A 24/7 collection of choral gems from J.S. Bach to John Rutter. Perfect programming for choral music lovers performed by some of our greatest choirs like the Elmer Iseler Singers, The Elora Festival Singers and Musica Intima.

Choral Heaven, 24/7

CBC Music adds Choral to its web radio lineup, becoming one of the 10 permanent classical stations offered by the service. Available for listening exclusively in Canada, Choral features an impressive roster of choirs and vocal ensembles from around the world, not to mention some of the finest music ever composed for the human voice. For more information, please visit http://bit.ly/Wb6NDv

Reminder - NewWorks deadline - February 18th

This is a reminder that the deadline for DaCapo Chamber Choir's 4th annual, national choral composition competition, NewWorks, is fast approaching.  All entries must be postmarked February 18th, or earlier - only one month away!
 
Full information - including entry form - is available on our web site:  www.dacapochamberchoir,ca/newworks .   

The purpose of the NewWorks competition is to foster new and engaging choral works by Canadian composers.  The DaCapo Chamber Choir was founded in 1998 and is dedicated to exploring unaccompanied music, primarily of the 20th Century and later. We are continually looking for new pieces to perform which will challenge us and our audiences - both musically and emotionally.

We have thrilled with the entries over the last three years; this November, we performed last year’s winning entry, "Song of Invocation" by Sheldon Rose (Toronto, ON).  In the spring, we will be hosting a public workshop featuring three winners of our Young Composers Reading Sessions, where their compositions will be read by the choir. Composers will have opportunity to interact with the conductor and choristers in an effort to continue to refine their compositional craft.

The 2013 winning entry will receive a $1,500 cash award plus travel expenses to Kitchener to attend
the premiere of his/her composition by the DaCapo Chamber Choir, under director Leonard Enns, in the choir’s 2013/2014 season.  We are also inviting young composers (aged 25 and younger) to submit compositions for consideration in our Young Composers Reading Sessions.
Entry deadline is February 18th, 2013.

Do we have the "Glee Effect" here?

Mireille Theriault is a staff writer at the MB Teacher working on an article about the apparent increased popularity of vocal and choir groups and would like to speak with people, particularly in Manitoba, who can provide evidence of this trend.

Statistics from the US indicate that high schools and universities for example have seen a dramatic increase in interest and participation in the performing arts (actually termed the “Glee Effect” ) over the last couple of years tied to the popularity of programs like “Glee”, "...Idol" "The Voice" and others.

If you could be of any assistance in contributing or pointing Mireille toward someone who would be able to speak on this topic she would appreciate hearing from you at your earliest convenience.

Mireille Theriault
MTS – Publications Dept.
204-837-4666 ext 354
mtheriault@mbteach.org

World Choir Games 2014 Registration Information Now Available

The registration forms for the World Choir Games 2014 in Riga, Latvia are available. The official registration deadline is December 1, 2013. Choirs that register by September 15, 2013 will receive a special discount on the event package. More information can be found here.

At the World Choir Games in Riga choirs can sign up for a total of 29 competition categories including new categories for Male Vocal Ensembles, Female Vocal Ensembles, Mixed Vocal Ensembles in The Champions Competition; Barbershop Quartets in both The Champions Competition and The Open Competition and Senior Choirs in The Open Competition.