Performed by the Graduate Choir New Zealand, director Terence Maskell; Michael Stoddart, organ; Auckland Brass Quintet (Carl Wells, horn; Huw Dann, trumpet; Jonah Levy, trumpet; Douglas Cross, trombone; Tak Chun Lai, tuba) Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland...  morePerformed by the Graduate Choir New Zealand, director Terence Maskell; Michael Stoddart, organ; Auckland Brass Quintet (Carl Wells, horn; Huw Dann, trumpet; Jonah Levy, trumpet; Douglas Cross, trombone; Tak Chun Lai, tuba) Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland, 22 April 2017. Audio recorded by Larry Elliott of Vivante Recordings. Film made with funding from NZ On Air.  

Performed by the Graduate Choir New Zealand, director Terence Maskell; Michael Stoddart, organ; Auckland Brass Quintet (Carl Wells, horn; Huw Dann, trumpet; Jonah Levy, trumpet; Douglas Cross, trombone; Tak Chun Lai, tuba) Holy Trinity Cathedral, Aucklan...  morePerformed by the Graduate Choir New Zealand, director Terence Maskell; Michael Stoddart, organ; Auckland Brass Quintet (Carl Wells, horn; Huw Dann, trumpet; Jonah Levy, trumpet; Douglas Cross, trombone; Tak Chun Lai, tuba) Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland, 22 April 2017. Audio recorded by Larry Elliott of Vivante Recordings. Film made with funding from NZ On Air.  

Erik Satie's Sarabande No. 1 is one of my favourite piano pieces. For a long time, I felt there was an a cappella choral piece hiding within it, in plain sight. One day I got inspired and gave it a try. Creating a choral adaptation of a piano piece ha...  moreErik Satie's Sarabande No. 1 is one of my favourite piano pieces. For a long time, I felt there was an a cappella choral piece hiding within it, in plain sight. One day I got inspired and gave it a try. Creating a choral adaptation of a piano piece has its challenges. I tried to keep faithful to Satie's original musical inspiration and created lyrics to go with my arrangement that evoke an early summer morning, one of my favourite times of the year. Several months later, I applied to be a participant at one of the Vancouver Chamber Choir's Interplay workshops funded by the SOCAN Foundation and to my delight I was accepted. "As Dawn breaks" was one of the pieces that this amazing choir sight read for me on the spot. VCC director Jon Washburn and choir members then provided me with valuable feedback, for which I am very grateful. NB: One day I woke up to the realization that I had independently written four choral works, each of which had evoked a different season, and so it seemed natural to group ...    less

This will be the 17th time that we return to capital of Hungary. If you still hesitate about this event, now you can see deeper in the scene by participants of earlier Budapest International Choir Competition & Festival. “You created a plac...

The Big Sing 2022 National Finale - Session One Recorded with thanks to JX Live and RNZ Concert

Podcast Powered By Podbean Not Twitter tweeting, but renaissance madrigal Birds tweets make up most of the lyrics in the song Le chant des oyseaux.   Our director, Pierre, gives us direction in a particularly tricky section of the song and you...

Las Amarillas (The Yellow Birds) represented an unpredictable and ever-changing aspect of the 'wind' section for The Vocal Art Ensemble's fifth anniversary GODAI - Choral Music Summoning the Five Ancient Elements concerts in May 2013.

This recording was done during Vox Camerata's Musica Intimae: From Dusk to Dawn Concert on the 8th August 2015 at the School of The Arts Concert Hall, Singapore. This perfomance also features Lo Yen Nee, who was the dramatist/emcee for that day.

Pete, Dawn, Louise, Holly, Katrina, Margo, Marjorie, John and Bob  -- the Stairwell Carollers, Xmas, 1990 Way back in 1990, when human beings were still manning all the cameras at CJOH and show guests had a dressing room and a makeup artist, Joel Ha...

Taymaz Saba and Andrei Diaconu were commissioned by Laudate Singers to co-write this piece. This dynamic piece includes all facets of our Voices, Sax & Syn concert: singers, pre-recorded sound, two saxophones and synthesizer. Birds singing. Robotic voice...  moreTaymaz Saba and Andrei Diaconu were commissioned by Laudate Singers to co-write this piece. This dynamic piece includes all facets of our Voices, Sax & Syn concert: singers, pre-recorded sound, two saxophones and synthesizer. Birds singing. Robotic voices. Percussion. Funky bass. Poignant harmonies. Expressive lyricism. Groovy syncopation. This is truly a modern setting of the Song of Mary! Turn it up for the best experience!! Synthesizer: Tim Tsang Alto saxophone: Campbell Ryga Tenor saxophone: Ross Taggart Conductor: Lars Kaario Laudate Singers (www.laudatesingers.com) Voices, Sax & Syn concert March 12, 2011 St Andrews United Church, North Vancouver, Canada  less