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Exultate Chamber Singers is an auditioned group of 28 skilled singers who enjoy performing a variety of chamber choir repertoire, both a cappella and accompanied, including many works by Canadian composers. The choir is under the direction of artistic director Mark Ramsay and will be recording its sixth album this season. In addition, the choir commissions new works, collaborates with guest artists, and supports aspiring young music professionals with singing and conducting opportunities. Rehearsals take place on Tuesdays from 5:45pm to 7:45pm at St. Thomas’s Anglican Church, 383 Huron St. Please contact Exultate for audition information.

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VIVA Singers Toronto choir offers members the opportunity to achieve artistic excellence in a singer-centred, collaborative choral community, featuring youth mentoring programs and the TD Bank Group Inclusion Program.

The family of VIVA choirs include: the Preparatory Chorus (ages 3-6); the Junior Chorus (ages 6-10); the Main Chorus (ages 9-18); the Senior Treble Chorus (ages 13 -18); the SATB Chamber Singers (youth and adults); non-auditioned VIVA Community Choir (SATB), and the Every Voice Matters Chorus for singers with disabilities.

VIVA's 22nd season highlights include performing with the internationally renowned fusion group, Autorickshaw. In response to challenges to chorister mental health throughout the pandemic, VIVA choirs have embedded a wellness and self-help focus in all programming.

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Launched in 2010, City Choir is an exciting non-auditioned SATB choir. Our five well-known directors have worked with us since then – Waleed Abdulhamid, John Millard, Patricia O’Callaghan, Greg Oh, and Suba Sankaran.

Open to all who love to sing, we perform music of many styles, as well as original compositions. The choir has continued to meet virtually ‘live’ through Jamulus and Zoom throughout 2020 and 2021. During this time we have presented two concerts and a coffee house and look forward to meeting together in person as soon as possible.

We have sung at the Tranzac Club, the Drake Underground, the Aga Khan Museum and Ismaili Centre, with the Mixed Choir in “Apocalypsis” (Luminato Festival), and in the “SING!” a Cappella Festival.

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The Toronto Concert Choir is a reincarnation of the Oakham House Choir, a 90-singer ensemble that was based at Ryerson University for 35 years. Like its predecessor, it will specialize in large-scale choral masterpieces and will be accompanied by the Toronto Sinfonietta orchestra. We hope that our first concert after the lockdown, at Knox Presbyterian Church, will feature several guest choirs; Mendelssohn's Elijah will follow in the spring. We particularly welcome young singers and Ryerson students, but membership is also open to Ryerson alumni, faculty and staff, as well as to singers from outside the university. The choir is led by its founding music director, Matthew Jaskiewicz. Choristers willing to learn challenging repertoire are invited to contact us by email about openings.

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Led by artistic director, Mervin William Fick, Mississauga Chamber Singers perform classical choral repertoire, from a wide range of A Capella works to timeless works for choir and orchestra.

The Mississauga Chamber Singers current musical ensemble of approximately 30 auditioned singers evolved from the Mississauga Choral Society, which was a large (80 voice) oratorio society, founded in 1975.

The Mississauga Chamber Singers performs a diverse season of extensive community engagement events, multi-generational musical education programming and ticketed concerts.

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Founded in 1977 by director emeritus Richard Householder, the Windsor Classic Chorale has become a core component of the local arts community, dedicated to achieving artistic excellence by maintaining a high level of musicianship with a rich palette of ambitious choral works. As with many musicians during this time of uncertainty, the WCC has made the necessary transition to a completely virtual format for its 2020/21 season and has presented two virtual concerts during this time.

The WCC considers it a privilege to perform in this community. Their love for choral music is what brings them together. While unable to have audiences hear them in person, this transition to a virtual format is providing the WCC with the opportunity to extend beyond Windsor and Essex County.

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Led by Matthew Jaskiewicz, Novi Singers Toronto performs an ambitious multilingual repertoire including classical sacred and secular, jazz, cabaret and opera. We enjoy an ongoing collaboration with Toronto Sinfonietta, distinguished soloists and guest musical ensembles. Our programming includes the eagerly anticipated and sold-out annual Christmas concert, events celebrating Polish heritage and oratorio performances. Continuing to meet virtually, the choir recorded a few “uplifting” songs and is preparing new “jazzy” arrangements for future concerts.

NST welcomes new members with a commitment to excellence.  We meet on Wednesday evenings at 71 Judson Street, Etobicoke. For further information, please contact Matthew at matthew.jaskiewicz@gmail.com or visit our website.

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This dynamic four part community choir has entertained audiences in Halton Region and beyond. The 50-member choir performs two major concerts annually, often including premier guest soloists and musicians. We also perform at numerous local events. Our director, Rachel Cleland, is expanding our already varied repertoire. From classical to contemporary, sacred to secular, we sing it all. Rehearsals are Tuesday night from 7:30pm to 9:30pm. From September to June. A love of singing, some sight reading would be helpful but not necessary, and a sense of humor are all you need to become a Milton Chorister.

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Enlivening Toronto’s arts community for 47 years, the award-winning Amadeus Choir is a semi-professional choir of auditioned voices from Toronto and the surrounding areas. The Choir champions the best of choral music and premieres works of Canadian and international composers through a self-produced Toronto concert series, guest performances, and special events. Known well beyond Toronto through tours, festivals, recordings, and national and international radio broadcasts, the Choir collaborates with many professional performing arts organizations in the GTA. In 2019, after the 35-year leadership of Lydia Adams, the Choir welcomed Kathleen Allan as artistic director and conductor.

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Toronto Classical Singers is the only choir in the country dedicated exclusively to the great choral/orchestral repertoire. For our upcoming 30th season, we plan to celebrate the glorious tradition of choral music in Canada as pandemic circumstances allow.

Known for its unique musical point-of-view and diverse and high-quality programming, the choir features lesser-known and rarely performed pieces as well as the beloved vocal/orchestral repertoire. Led by founding conductor Jurgen Petrenko, the choir has a long-standing partnership with Talisker Players who accompany the choir in their presentations of the great choral masterpieces.

We welcome new singers. Auditions, rehearsals and performances will occur under current guidelines established by health agencies. Please visit our website for updated information.