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Here’s a beautiful Ukrainian New Year song for you to enjoy!

It was recorded as a global collaboration, by 10 children’s and youth choirs from Ukraine, South Africa, Finland, Germany, Scotland, the United States and our own Grand Philharmonic Children’s Choir and Grand Philharmonic Youth Choir in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada!
Our singers are in the yellow, blue and maroon shirts.

We hope that this joyful recording brings you a wonderful start to your New Year! As the song says: “A bountiful and good evening! Wishing you health and prosperity!”

Special congratulations to our children’s choir conductor, Andrea deBoer-Jones, who was instrumental in bringing together this group of choirs from around the world for connection during the pandemic. They have stayed in touch ever since!

Participating choirs, in  order of appearance, are: Voices In Plainfield, Illinois, USA (Oksana Rodak, Artistic Director); Grand Philharmonic Children’s Choir and Grand Philharmonic Youth Choir, Ontario, Canada (Andrea de Boer-Jones, Greer Schatz, Conductors, Emily Burnett, Assistant Conductor); Chamber Girls Choir of Kyiv M. Lysenko School, Ukraine (Iuliia Puchko-Kolesnyk, Director and Conductor, Vira Shemchuk, Choirmaster);  Mädchenchor der Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, Germany (Friederike Stahmer, Director); Young Voices of Colorado, USA (Jena Dickey, Luke Mizuki, Kimean Wibbenmeyer, Directors); Biggar High School, Scotland (Audrey McKirdy, Teacher); Ulmer Spatzen Youth Choir, Germany (Salome Rebello, Conductor);  Cape Town Children’s Choir, South Africa (Bronwen Leith, Director, Penny Middelkoop, Pianist);  ChildrenSong of New Jersey, USA (Polly Murray, Artistic Director);  Sing & Shine Kuorot, Finland (Sanna Valvanne, Director).

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Andrea deBoer-Jones, conductor

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Magnificent! Spell-binding!

“Words alone cannot convey the experience of sitting in the audience with the panorama of the orchestra and choirs spread out before us; the sound that emanated from the front and completely filled the space; the sound of the children's voices floating above in their parts. So glad we were there. Well done.”