DaCapo Chamber Choir

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The DaCapo Chamber Choir was founded in 1998 under the direction of Leonard Enns. The choir’s mission is to promote the best of contemporary choral music through public performance, including intentionally championing Canadian music; we have premiered almost 40 new works by Canadian composers, and have commissioned three major choral works. Our programs “give ideas voice” - and this year we focus on an environmental theme, with a season of three concerts: Cherish, Enchant, and Preserve. Cherish (Nov 8 & 9) is a solo chamber choir program, featuring Eleanor Daley’s Requiem and Herbert Howell’s Take Him, Earth, For Cherishing. Our mid-winter concert, Enchant (Feb 28 & Mar 1) looks to the moon, to the constellations, and considers the seasons that result from the tilt and spin of our little rock within this universe. The spring concert, Preserve, (May 9 & 10) opens with This Fragile Web by Christine Donkin (composer of the powerful Following the Moonroad). Our focus is earth as precious, insensitively abused, and needing our care. The concert also features Leonard Enns’ new work for choir, oboe and string quartet, Taiga. Guests this season include oboist James Mason, cellist Miriam Stewart-Kroeker, and pianist Catherine Robertson.