Canary Pages 2013

The Annex Singers of Toronto is a vibrant and accomplished community choir under the dynamic and creative leadership of artistic director Maria Case. Now in its 38th season, the choir performs three concerts annually, collaborating with a wide array of guest soloists and ensembles. Recent performances include Fauré’s Requiem, Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit, and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with the Talisker Players. The Annex Chamber Choir is a 24-voice ensemble formed from within the larger choir.
The choir engages in community outreach, holds an autumn retreat, and offers summer workshops with notable clinicians (check our website for details). Member dues are half-price for choristers 30 and under. We rehearse Monday evenings at St. Thomas’s Anglican Church, 383 Huron Street. Auditions: please contact our membership coordinator.

Joanne Eidinger
416-458-4434
joeidinger@gmail.com
www.annexsingers.com

Led by conductor and artistic director Lydia Adams since 1985, the award-winning Amadeus Choir performs 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. Through tours, recordings and radio broadcasts, the choir is known well beyond Toronto. The Amadeus Choir partners and collaborates with many professional performing arts organizations in the GTA. The choir also engages in educational and community outreach through choral workshops for students, music educators, composers and conductors. A part of Toronto’s arts community for 42 years, the choir includes members from all parts of the GTA. Annual auditions are held in May and June. Phone or email the choir office for information.

Lydia Adams, conductor & artistic director
Shawn Grenke, accompanist & associate conductor
416-446-0188
info@amadeuschoir.com
www.amadeuschoir.com

All Saints Kingsway Choir provides musical leadership at weekly Sunday morning Eucharists, Festival Evensongs, community outreach projects and concerts year-round. The choir is made up of paid section leads and volunteer participants and welcomes new singers throughout the year. Recent performances include Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, festal celebrations with the drumming ensemble Beyond Sound Empijah and the Michael Occhipinti Jazz Quartet, and Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s The Atonement, both with the Nathaniel Dett Chorale. Jazz vespers and lunchtime organ recitals round out the regular musical offerings. New members are always welcome to the Music at All Saints Kingsway family. Come and be a part of a fantastic choral and instrumental creative community.

Brainerd Blyden-Taylor
416-233-1125 x5
music@allsaintskingsway.ca
www.allsaintskingsway.ca

The Achill Choral Society began as a community choir in 1982, drawing members from an area northwest of Toronto. We gather Wednesday evenings to rehearse repertoire. Our membership is around 85 and we are a mixed, auditioned adult choir. Each Christmas and spring, we perform concerts in the churches and halls of our communities, including Alliston, Beeton, Bolton, Bradford, Caledon, Caledon East, Orangeville, Shelburne and Tottenham. We are led by A. Dale Wood. His lifelong musical career also includes directing the Georgetown Choral Society and Georgetown Children’s Chorus, as well as teaching lessons in piano, voice, organ and composition. Thanks to the commitment and vision of our director, the choir maintains an excellent standard of performance, attracting guest soloists and accompanists of the highest calibre.

Catherine Wilson
416-254-2075
catherine@catherinemachry.com
www.achill.ca