Cantabile Choirs of Kingston
Since 1996, the Cantabile Choirs of Kingston, under composer/conductor Mark Sirett, have become known for concerts featuring non-traditional staging and joyful repertoire sung with skill and enthusiasm by Cantabile’s 300 singers.
Our 2018-19 season is titled Constellations: North Star, November 3 honours Canada’s Indigenous people in a concert on the theme of Truth and Reconciliation; One Star, December 22 and 23, Cantabile’s candle-lit holiday concerts, are the jewel of Kingston’s festive season; Star of County Down, March 2, features New Dublin Voices conductor, Bernie Sherlock, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day; Star Light, Star Bright, April 6, features Cantabile’s youngest stars with visiting children’s choirs from Montreal and Cobourg; and Sky Full of Stars, May 25, features Quebec’s versatile Quartom, ranging from a cappella folk songs, barbershop and Beatles to opera.
Hollie Stewart
613-549-3957
info@cantabilechoirs.net
www.cantabilechoirs.ca
Cantemus Singers was established in 2008 by our conductor, Michael Erdman, to help expand Toronto’s exposure to and appreciation of Renaissance and early Baroque secular vocal music. Our 12-voice a cappella ensemble focuses mainly on the interesting and evocative madrigals, lieder, chansons and villancicos of the 16th century. We also perform religious works, often five to eight part compositions less frequently heard by Toronto audiences. We present three programs a year, in late fall, mid-winter and spring. Our choristers are a mix of enthusiastic, well-trained amateurs and semi-professionals, all sharing a common interest in early music. We rehearse Wednesday evenings through the season. Membership is by audition. Our main performance venue is the historic and acoustically lively Church of the Holy Trinity, Eaton Centre.
