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The Choir at St. Olave’s Anglican Church sings music for Communion, Morning Prayer, and Evensong services in the English choral tradition (Berkeley, Byrd, Elgar, Howells, Leighton, Stanford, Willan). While our focus is on British and Canadian composers, we also sing motets by Palestrina and Victoria, and choral music from the 18th to 21st century. Rehearsals are on Thursdays, 7:30-9pm and Sundays at 9:30am for the 10:30am service. Evensongs are sung by our Choir or visiting Choirs approximately once a month. We are an auditioned Choir made up of volunteers and paid leads, and have a passion for what we do.

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St. Michael’s Choir School was founded in 1937, with the purpose of providing sacred music for services at St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica. St. Michael’s Choir School is an all-boys school from grades 3 through 12 located in downtown Toronto. Comprised of between 250-300 students, St. Michael’s Choir School is a centre for musical and academic excellence. It is one of only six choir schools in the world affiliated with the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome. Each student attending the Choir School is accepted on the basis of a vocal audition and sings in at least one of the school’s choirs. Each St. Michael’s Choir School student is trained in music theory, vocal and instrumental music. In addition to weekly Masses and numerous annual concerts, SMCS choirs tour regularly and perform at various local events.

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The St. James Town Children’s Choir, founded in 2007, welcomes children from grades 3 to 8 from St. James Town and surrounding neighborhoods. The choir’s artistic directors over the years have many years working with children’s choirs, many of them music specialists from the RCM and Toronto District School Board. Over the years, the choir has sung with professional choirs, at sports events, in long-term care facilities, in schools and community events, and has collaborated with professional musicians (e.g. Ensemble Vivant, Suba Sankaran). The repertoire is secular, diverse, inclusive, fun and musically enriching. Music literacy and performance opportunities are a priority.

Choristers are welcomed for September 2019. Information is available on our website and questions may be directed to ed.rotm@gmail.com, or 416-421-8518.

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If you enjoy singing a wide range of motets that span five centuries - from the sublime offerings of Byrd, Palestrina, and Tallis to the composers of today via Healey Willan, John Rutter, Saint-Saëns, and Charles Gounod - there is no better remedy for your craving than the exhilarating membership of a cathedral choir of like-minded volunteers with an appetite for musical challenges and artistic companionship. This social group of singers rehearses each Thursday from 7 to 8pm, and comprises sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses. Director of music Robert Busiakiewicz welcomes enquiries from those who might like to join the ranks, or those who simply want to give singing a try in a relaxed rehearsal setting. The choir sings at the 9am Cathedral Eucharist each week. We warmly welcome all genders and ages.

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The thriving, growing and inclusive church of St. Clement’s, Yonge/Eglinton is recruiting new members for its three choirs. Our robed choir of 22 sings at our 11am service and rehearses on Thursday evenings. This choir is led by six professional singers and explores the treasures of the Anglican choral repertoire across six centuries of music. We have sung in English, Latin, German, Norwegian, Welsh and Russian and recent performances have included double-choir motets by Tomkins and a number of pieces specially commissioned by St. Clement’s, or written for us. We work hard but have a lot of fun. The standard is exacting but we don’t audition - we’d prefer you to give us a try and see how we find each other! St. Clement’s also has a pick-up choir at its 9am service and a Youth Choir that rehearses on Thursday afternoons.

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Spiritus Ensemble is a semi-professional choral-instrumental ensemble of 18 voices plus an orchestra of varying size that performs mainly the liturgical music of J.S. Bach and other liturgically-conceived music. We perform four or five times a season in Kitchener-Waterloo, sometimes in concert and sometimes in a Bach Vespers format. Rehearsals take place on the two or three Saturday mornings preceding each performance. Performances are on Sundays at 4pm. The principal works for the 2019/20 season will be Bach’s Cantatas 76, 116, the St John Passion and Handel’s Messiah.

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SoundCrowd, Toronto’s first large-scale a cappella ensemble, made its concert debut alongside former Barenaked Ladies frontman Steven Page on Danforth Music Hall in November of 2016. Under the direction of founder and artistic director Scott Pietrangelo, they have since performed at notable public venues around the GTA (Princess of Wales Theatre, The Opera House, Jane Mallett Theatre, Richmond Hill Centre for the Arts), hosted sold-out concerts, created viral YouTube videos, performed at Carnegie Hall with choirs from around the world led by Deke Sharon (Pitch Perfect, The Sing Off), and have shared the stage with such notable artists as DCappella, Cadence, Lorraine Segata, Countermeasure, Retrocity and cast members from the original Toronto production of “Les Miserables”.

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The Society of Singers is a non-auditioned SATB choir that rehearses Wednesdays from 1-3pm at Blythwood Road Church (80 Blythwood Rd.). Under the direction of Peter Ness, we sing a wide repertoire of music ranging from classical and gospel hymns to traditional ballads to show tunes to swing numbers. We perform one or two afternoon concerts per month at Toronto seniors’ residences, where we are always much appreciated. If you love to sing and are looking for a happy, relaxed choir that is still serious about music, you are warmly invited to drop in to any Wednesday rehearsal or to contact us (by email, preferably) for more information.

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The Shevchenko Choir is an integral part of the Shevchenko Musical Ensemble with the Toronto Mandolin Orchestra. Although its roots lie in the Ukrainian community, through more than our 65-year history, we have evolved into a multicultural choir whose repertoire reflects the diversity of our society, including folk songs, classical and original works. Currently, the choir presents its own choral concert each year; performs 2-3 times at Seniors Residences; and appears with the Toronto Mandolin Orchestra, including instrumental and vocal soloists, as part of the full Ensemble.

A non-audition choir, its rehearsals are held Sunday mornings (10:00-12:30am) at Borochov Cultural Centre, 272 Codsell Ave.

Our highly talented conductor, Alexander Veprinskiy, blends the choir and orchestra into a unique musical ensemble.

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Serenata Singers is a 60-voice, four-part community seniors’ choir. This fall we begin our 44th year, under the guidance of our accomplished choral director, Ms. Leanne Piller. Serenata’s repertoire covers a wide range of music, including classical, show tunes, pop, folk and Canadiana. Rehearsals are held on Wednesday mornings from September to May at Wilmar Heights Centre, 963 Pharmacy Ave., Scarborough. During the year, we sing at seniors’ residences and the season crescendos with two concerts held in the spring. The choir welcomes new members in every vocal range. An informal, non-threatening voice screening process is performed by our choral director to properly place voices and maintain our performance standards.