Grand Philharmonic Choir

Choral SoundWalk
2017-09-30 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Toronto) | Rare Charitable Reserve, 1679 Blair Rd,, Cambridge, ON, Cambridge, ON N3H 4R8, Canada
A lone singer in a canoe on the river. The clear sound of a trumpet combining with the wind and wildlife. Choral music in the woods.
Don’t miss this evocative Choral Sound Walk through the magnificent grounds of the rare near the Grand River.
Guided departures Saturday, September 30, at 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. at rare ECO Centre parking lot, 768 Blair Road, Cambridge.
Rain or shine. Free.
The Grand Philharmonic Choir and rare Charitable Research Reserve are offering this public outreach experience as part of Culture Days weekend. Culture Days invites the public to experience the richness of art and culture across Canada, without charge. Please join us!
Please note this walk will transverse narrow footpaths that are not fully accessible. Contact administration at 519-650-9336 for more information. Dogs are not permitted on this property trail.

Late Summer Auditions for Adult choir
2017-08-29 17:30 - 20:30, 2017-08-28 17:30 - 20:30 | Conrad Grebel University College, 140 Westmount Rd N, Waterloo, Canada
To audition for the adult choir, you must be able to read music and be willing to commit to a schedule of Monday night rehearsals plus 15 to 20 performances/events a year. It’s a big time commitment, but can be very satisfying. Late summer auditions for the 2017-2018 season are scheduled for August 28, 29 and by appointment. Sign up here for an audition time.

East Coast Kitchen Party fundraiser
2017-05-13 19:30 - 22:30 | Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, 25 Caroline St., Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 2Y5, Canada
East Coast Kitchen Party Fundraiser

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Join us at The Clay & Glass Gallery on May 13 for our East Coast Kitchen Party – A benefit for the Grand Philharmonic Choir!
Join your fellow community members and friends to share delicious food, enjoy terrific live music and learn some dance steps, just like a traditional East Coast Kitchen Party!
Musicians Allison Lupton, Shane Cook, Ian Bell and caller Kris Rosar will be providing toe-tapping tunes that are sure to get you on the dance floor (or at least clapping along!) before the night is over.

Bring a Friend night
2017-05-02 18:00 - 19:00 | Rockway Mennonite Collegiate, 110 Doon Rd.
Are you 6-13? You are invited to check us out! Join the Grand Philharmonic Children’s choir for singing fun and games.
Early bird registration for the fall available

Find Your Voice
2017-04-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Knox Presbyterian Church, 50 Erb St. West, Waterloo, ON, N2L 1T1, Canada
Grand Philharmonic Children’s Choir
Andrea deBoer-Jones, conductor
Rebecca Booker, accompanist
This concert focuses on inspirational and poetic songs, such as Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, the Vancouver 2010 Olympics theme song, I Believe, Allister MacGillivray’s Here’s to Song, Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi. and much more!
Tickets $15 at the door ($5 for High School students, free for children under 12)

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
2017-04-14 19:30 - 22:00 | Centre In The Square, 101 Queen St. N, Kitchener, Ontario, N2H 6P7, Canada
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis

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“From the heart, may it again go to the heart,” Beethoven said about this work. Intimately personal in some places, grand in its sprawling narrative at other times, this is Beethoven at the height of his creative genius.
Leslie Fagan, soprano
Krisztina Szabo, mezzo-soprano
Owen McCausland, tenor
Geoffrey Sirett, baritone
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
Grand Philharmonic Choir
Mark Vuorinen, conductor
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Sanctuary
2017-04-01 15:00 - 17:00 | Trillium Lutheran Church, 22 Willow Street, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Special guest conductor: Joseph Gascho
Kimberly Barber, mezzo-soprano
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Youth Orchestra
Grand Philharmonic Youth Choir
Selections from Dido & Aeneas (Henry Purcell). Stabat Mater (Pergolesi) and Songs of Sanctuary (Karl Jenkins)
Tickets $15 at the door
($5 for High School students, free for children under 12)

Missa Solemnis Sing-In
2017-04-01 09:30 - 12:00 | St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 54 Queen St N, Kitchener, Ontario, N2H 2H2, Canada
Join us for an open public rehearsal of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis
No music experience required!
Saturday April 1, 10 to noon
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
Weber and Queen Streets, Kitchener
Please RSVP at 519-578-6885 or info@grandphilchoir.com

Immortal Bach
2017-03-25 19:30 - 21:00
Immortal Bach

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Meet J.S. Bach and his musical descendants and heirs in this beguiling presentation of motets by a family of Bachs and the works of other composers, such as Mendelssohn and Nystedt, who were deeply influenced by this greatest of composers. Works by J.S. Bach, J.C. Bach, J.L. Bach Felix Mendelssohn and Knut Nystedt.
This concert will be performed by the Grand Philharmonic Chamber Singers.
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Bellows & Brass
2017-03-04 19:30 - 22:00 | St. Peter’s Lutheran Church, 49 Queen St. N, Kitchener, Ontario, N2H 2G9, Canada
Bellows & Brass

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Celebrate the glorious 500-year tradition of voice, organ and brass, with a quintet from the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. A delightful variety of works spanning the centuries, from Giovanni Gabrieli to Paul Halley, will make your spirit soar.
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Brass Quintet
Grand Philharmonic Choir
Mark Vuorinen, conductor
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Christmas Homecoming
2016-12-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Centre In The Square, 101 Queen St. N, Kitchener, Ontario, N2H 6P7, Canada
Dove: There Was A Child
and other seasonal works

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From our family to yours, this will be a homecoming to remember! Our children’s and youth choirs join our adult singers for a beautiful “family of choirs” concert. Jonathan Dove’s sublime work, which celebrates young life with joy and intensity, will be performed here for the first time in Canada!
Jacqueline Woodley, soprano
Andrew Haji, tenor
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
Grand Philharmonic Choir
Grand Philharmonic Chamber Singers
Grand Philharmonic Youth Choir
Grand Philharmonic Children’s Choir
Mark Vuorinen, conductor
Andrea deBoer-Jones, children’s choir conductor
Amanda Brunk, youth choir conductor
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Christmas Carols
2016-12-03 10:00 - 23:00 | Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St. W, Kitchener, Ontario, N2G 4G7, Canada
Christmas Carols with our Youth and Children’s choirs

Join us at Kitchener City Hall for the singing of Christmas Carols at the Christkindl Christmas Market

Christkindlmarkt Opening
2016-12-01 18:00 - 19:00 | Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St. W, Kitchener, Ontario, N2G 4G7, Canada
Celebrate Christkindlmarkt

Join us for the procession form Victoria Park to Kitchener City Hall complete with live animals!
There will be carol singing along with “Hallelujah” chorus from Handel’s Messiah.

Whitbourn: Annelies
2016-11-19 19:30 - 22:00 | Maureen Forrester Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Ave. W, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3C5, Canada
Whitbourn: Annelies

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James Whitbourn’s moving cantata sets to music the diary of Anne Frank, a book which became a symbol of hope and goodness amid the brutality of the Second World War.
Our production of this “devastatingly beautiful” work (Choir and Organ magazine) will be its first performance in Canada.
Enhance your experience by taking in the displays on Anne’s life and legacy at the Kitchener Public Library, 2nd floor from Oct. 21 – Nov. 18. They will be on loan from the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, New York City.
This concert will be performed by the Grand Philharmonic Chamber Singers along with special soloists and instrumentalists:
Natasha Campbell, soprano
Andrew Chung, violin
Barbara Hankins, clarinet
Ben Bolt-Martin, cello
Catherine Robertson, piano
There will be a pre-concert talk at 6:45pm with Carson Phillips, a Holocaust scholar and managing director of the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre in Toronto.
FREE Parking is available on campus in “WHITE PERMIT” lots.
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Anne Frank: At the Library
2016-11-13 14:00 - 16:00 | Kitchener Public Library, 85 Queen St N, Kitchener, Ontario, N2H 2H1, Canada
Anne Frank: At the Library

Join us to remember Anne Frank, the courageous young Jewish refugee whose diary spoke eloquently for millions who suffered in the Second World War.
We will have educational displays brought in from the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect in New York City. These will be displayed Oct. 20 to Nov. 15 at Kitchener Public Library main branch. http://kpl.org/art-exhibits
You are also invited to our special preview, Sunday Nov. 13, of portions of Annelies, the moving choral cantata by James Whitbourn that brings music to Anne’s words.
Beth Slepian, education director for the Anne Frank Center, will also present a talk on Anne, her history, her legacy, and how her story helps us meet the challenges of the 21st century.
This preview will be performed by the Grand Philharmonic Chamber Singers.
All Nov. 13 events are free, take place at the library, and are open to the public.
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The Young, The Restless
2016-10-15 19:30 - 22:00 | Centre In The Square, 101 Queen St. N, Kitchener, Ontario, N2H 6P7, Canada
Handel: Dixit Dominus
Mozart: Mass in C Minor

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Hear these fresh works composed by Handel and Mozart when they were still in their twenties! The shimmering Baroque layers of voice and orchestra in Handel’s setting of Psalm 110 are breathtaking. And Mozart’s Mass is a favourite of Pope Francis. Of the Et Incarnatus Est movement, he said: “It lifts you to God!”
Hélène Brunet, soprano
Virginia Hatfield, soprano
Daniel Cabena, countertenor
Jacques-Olivier Chartier, tenor
Justin Welsh, baritone
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
Grand Philharmonic Choir
Mark Vuorinen, conductor
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Sing-In
2016-10-01 09:30 - 12:00 | St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 54 Queen St N, Kitchener, Ontario, N2H 2H2, Canada
Open public rehearsal of Mozart’s Mass in C Minor

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We love it when we get to sing with fellow music lovers!
Join us at our free open public rehearsal. Please let us know that you will be coming and we will have scores available to borrow.
