Salt Spring Baroque Opera Workshop: Handel's Acis & Galatea
The Salt Spring Baroque Music Society is pleased to present its first week-long baroque music workshop for singers and instrumentalists.
This workshop is for accomplished amateur musicians or professionals seeking to gain experience in baroque performance practice. We will play at pitch A=415. Instrumentalists should have experience playing a baroque instrument, and must have a baroque instrument pitched at A=415. String players may use either baroque or modern instruments fitted with gut strings, and preferably play with a baroque bow. Singers must be able to read music and have experience singing in choirs. If you don't have an instrument, let us know as we may be able to source one for you.
At the end of the workshop, the participants will perform a complete concert version of Handel's opera Acis & Galatea.
The workshop will be led by the renowned Spanish violinist and conductor Enrique Gómez-Cabrero Fernández, who is the concertmaster of the Bach Orchestra of the Netherlands and the director of the Handel Opera Academy. He will be joined by vocal coach Anne Grimm, string coach Paul Luchkow, wind coach Romeo Ciuffa, and harpsichordist Simone Pierini.
Teaching (Voice and Piano)
The UpTown School of Music is a non-profit school where the teachers work as a collective and keep all of their teaching income so that they can re-invest in their teaching tools and professional training.
Our goal is to provide the highest quality lessons possible through frequent recital opportunities, practice spaces, ongoing professional development for teachers, good instruments, and comfortable surroundings. Our teachers are very experienced and qualified professionals, vetted by the collective before joining the team.
We have an open-door policy. Come have a look at our space, located in the heart of UpTown Waterloo, 3 doors away from Regina and Bridgeport.
For inquiries, please use the contact form on my website!
Choral Service of Holy Communion
Choral Service of Holy Communion (BCP) (1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday of Month)
Teaching (Voice and Piano)
The UpTown School of Music is a non-profit school where the teachers work as a collective and keep all of their teaching income so that they can re-invest in their teaching tools and professional training.
Our goal is to provide the highest quality lessons possible through frequent recital opportunities, practice spaces, ongoing professional development for teachers, good instruments, and comfortable surroundings. Our teachers are very experienced and qualified professionals, vetted by the collective before joining the team.
We have an open-door policy. Come have a look at our space, located in the heart of UpTown Waterloo, 3 doors away from Regina and Bridgeport.
For inquiries, please use the contact form on my website!
Choral Service of Holy Communion
Choral Service of Holy Communion (BCP) (1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday of Month)
Parish Choir Rehearsal
St. John’s Parish Choir is one of Canada’s only fully professional church choirs. Under the direction of Director of Music Patrick Murray, the Parish Choir leads the congregation in Choral Eucharist or Choral Matins on Sundays at 11:00am, and in seasonal Evensongs and services of Lessons and Carols. The Parish Choir has an extensive repertoire, emphasizing both traditional and contemporary musical expression within the Anglican choral tradition with a particular focus on new music by Canadian and international composers.
Rosh Hashanah Service
An intergenerational High Holy Day service for all ages, filled with engaging music, inspiring moments, and featuring our youth choir (90 mins).
Recommended for families with children aged 7 to 12. Chaverim (childcare for ages 2 to 6) available, with registration required.
Parish Choir Rehearsal
St. John’s Parish Choir is one of Canada’s only fully professional church choirs. Under the direction of Director of Music Patrick Murray, the Parish Choir leads the congregation in Choral Eucharist or Choral Matins on Sundays at 11:00am, and in seasonal Evensongs and services of Lessons and Carols. The Parish Choir has an extensive repertoire, emphasizing both traditional and contemporary musical expression within the Anglican choral tradition with a particular focus on new music by Canadian and international composers.
Spiritus Rehearsal
Spiritus preparing for Bach Vespers for Thanksgiving
Since its founding by Artistic Director Kenneth Hull in 2009, Spiritus Ensemble has performed over 25 of Bach’s cantatas, as well as motets and other works by J.S. Bach, Johann Christoph Bach, Vivaldi, Schütz, Buxtehude, Homilius, Bruhns, Kuhnau, Rheinberger, Benjamin Britten, James MacMillan, and Morten Lauridsen.
Many of Spiritus Ensemble’s Bach cantata performances take place within a liturgical context, accompanied by the readings on which they were intended as commentary as well as congregational chorales and hymns. These events form an ongoing series of ‘Bach Vespers’ with free admission performances at which donations are welcomed.
Other performances are more like traditional concerts, though often with an underlying liturgical or ritual shape. The performances in this series are our ‘In Concert’ events. Admission to these is by purchased ticket.
Choral Service of Holy Communion
Choral Service of Holy Communion (BCP) (1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday of Month)
Kol Nidrei Service
A rich and uplifting traditional High Holy Day worship experience, featuring piano, organ, professional choir, and the familiar melodies of Temple Sinai.
Recommended for all ages. Chaverim (childcare for ages 2 to 6) available, with registration required.
Yom Kippur Service
A rich and uplifting traditional High Holy Day worship experience, featuring piano, organ, professional choir, and the familiar melodies of Temple Sinai.
Recommended for all ages. Chaverim (childcare for ages 2 to 6) available, with registration required.
Yizkor & Ne'ilah
A meaningful meditative service with music, poetry and prose, including a photo montage to remember loved ones. Featuring renowned cellist Ofra Harnoy.
Recommended for adults and for families with teens aged 13 to 18.
Parish Choir Rehearsal
St. John’s Parish Choir is one of Canada’s only fully professional church choirs. Under the direction of Director of Music Patrick Murray, the Parish Choir leads the congregation in Choral Eucharist or Choral Matins on Sundays at 11:00am, and in seasonal Evensongs and services of Lessons and Carols. The Parish Choir has an extensive repertoire, emphasizing both traditional and contemporary musical expression within the Anglican choral tradition with a particular focus on new music by Canadian and international composers.
Spiritus Rehearsal
Spiritus preparing for Bach Vespers for Thanksgiving
Since its founding by Artistic Director Kenneth Hull in 2009, Spiritus Ensemble has performed over 25 of Bach’s cantatas, as well as motets and other works by J.S. Bach, Johann Christoph Bach, Vivaldi, Schütz, Buxtehude, Homilius, Bruhns, Kuhnau, Rheinberger, Benjamin Britten, James MacMillan, and Morten Lauridsen.
Many of Spiritus Ensemble’s Bach cantata performances take place within a liturgical context, accompanied by the readings on which they were intended as commentary as well as congregational chorales and hymns. These events form an ongoing series of ‘Bach Vespers’ with free admission performances at which donations are welcomed.
Other performances are more like traditional concerts, though often with an underlying liturgical or ritual shape. The performances in this series are our ‘In Concert’ events. Admission to these is by purchased ticket.
Choral Evensong
Choral Evensong (typically on the last Sunday of the month, September to November, January to May)
Teaching (Voice and Piano)
The UpTown School of Music is a non-profit school where the teachers work as a collective and keep all of their teaching income so that they can re-invest in their teaching tools and professional training.
Our goal is to provide the highest quality lessons possible through frequent recital opportunities, practice spaces, ongoing professional development for teachers, good instruments, and comfortable surroundings. Our teachers are very experienced and qualified professionals, vetted by the collective before joining the team.
We have an open-door policy. Come have a look at our space, located in the heart of UpTown Waterloo, 3 doors away from Regina and Bridgeport.
For inquiries, please use the contact form on my website!
Mélodie Concert for Art of Lied & Mélodie
Autumn Debassige & Angus Sinclair perform with other participants in a free concert of French Art Song.
Worship Service for Art of Lied & Mélodie
Autumn Debassige & Angus Sinclair offer music for worship at St. John's, Kitchener.
Opening Concert for Art of Lied & Mélodie
Autumn Debassige & Angus Sinclair perform with fellow participants and faculty members Daniel Lichti and Laetitia Bougnol.
Free admission!
Art of Lied & Mélodie (Duo - Autumn Debassige & Angus Sinclair)
With Daniel Lichti and Laetitia Bougnol
Masterclasses and Concerts – St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
This program is intended for advanced singers and pianists interested in exploring the rich world of Art Song as equal partners in study and performance. Singers and Pianists will apply as individuals and should indicate any intended partnership with another applicant. Successful applicants who do not indicate an identified partnership with another applicant, will be assigned to a suitable partner when applications are evaluated. Participation will be limited to 6 singers and 6 pianists.
Each Singer/Pianist Duo will have access to private rehearsal space for 2 hours daily (7 days), and will perform in six three-hour Masterclasses conducted by Daniel Lichti and Laetitia Bougnol that are open to the public.
Participants will perform in several public and private concerts over the course of the program, offering the songs they have coached in the course of the 9 day workshop. Each pair will also be expected to prepare two pieces appropriate for inclusion in a Protestant Church service (July 26) in one of Kitchener’s downtown churches as thanks for the use of rehearsal/concert pianos.
Teaching (Voice and Piano)
The UpTown School of Music is a non-profit school where the teachers work as a collective and keep all of their teaching income so that they can re-invest in their teaching tools and professional training.
Our goal is to provide the highest quality lessons possible through frequent recital opportunities, practice spaces, ongoing professional development for teachers, good instruments, and comfortable surroundings. Our teachers are very experienced and qualified professionals, vetted by the collective before joining the team.
We have an open-door policy. Come have a look at our space, located in the heart of UpTown Waterloo, 3 doors away from Regina and Bridgeport.
For inquiries, please use the contact form on my website!
Teaching (Voice and Piano)
The UpTown School of Music is a non-profit school where the teachers work as a collective and keep all of their teaching income so that they can re-invest in their teaching tools and professional training.
Our goal is to provide the highest quality lessons possible through frequent recital opportunities, practice spaces, ongoing professional development for teachers, good instruments, and comfortable surroundings. Our teachers are very experienced and qualified professionals, vetted by the collective before joining the team.
We have an open-door policy. Come have a look at our space, located in the heart of UpTown Waterloo, 3 doors away from Regina and Bridgeport.
For inquiries, please use the contact form on my website!
Opening Night: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Step into a world of drama, poetry, and radiant choral sound in this captivating program featuring soprano Rachel Fenlon. The evening begins with the sparkling imagination of Felix Mendelssohn’s Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a work composed when the prodigious composer was just seventeen, brimming with fairy magic and orchestral brilliance.
Ludwig van Beethoven’s dramatic concert aria Ah! perfido follows, a virtuosic showcase for soprano that moves from fiery indignation to lyrical tenderness. The mood then shifts to luminous reflection with Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music, a beloved tribute to the power of music itself, inspired by Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
The program culminates in Beethoven’s Mass in C Major, a work of profound humanity and expressive warmth. Both intimate and expansive, it reveals Beethoven’s deeply personal voice, bringing soloists, choir, and orchestra together in a moving celebration of faith, hope, and the transcendent beauty of music.
Rehearsal with The Elora Singers
Rehearsing with the Elora Singers for Opening Night: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Rehearsal with The Elora Singers
Rehearsing with the Elora Singers for Opening Night: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Teaching (Voice and Piano)
The UpTown School of Music is a non-profit school where the teachers work as a collective and keep all of their teaching income so that they can re-invest in their teaching tools and professional training.
Our goal is to provide the highest quality lessons possible through frequent recital opportunities, practice spaces, ongoing professional development for teachers, good instruments, and comfortable surroundings. Our teachers are very experienced and qualified professionals, vetted by the collective before joining the team.
We have an open-door policy. Come have a look at our space, located in the heart of UpTown Waterloo, 3 doors away from Regina and Bridgeport.
For inquiries, please use the contact form on my website!
Teaching (Voice and Piano)
The UpTown School of Music is a non-profit school where the teachers work as a collective and keep all of their teaching income so that they can re-invest in their teaching tools and professional training.
Our goal is to provide the highest quality lessons possible through frequent recital opportunities, practice spaces, ongoing professional development for teachers, good instruments, and comfortable surroundings. Our teachers are very experienced and qualified professionals, vetted by the collective before joining the team.
We have an open-door policy. Come have a look at our space, located in the heart of UpTown Waterloo, 3 doors away from Regina and Bridgeport.
For inquiries, please use the contact form on my website!
Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute
The Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute (TBSI) is a world-renowned training program in Toronto for advanced students and professional musicians in instrumental and vocal baroque performance practice, led by some of the finest musicians in the field. Since its inception in 2002, TBSI has attracted talented musicians from far and wide.
Deep Call to Deep: Music for Double Choir
The Choir of St. John’s Elora will perform a program of double-choir works at Georgian Shores United Church in Owen Sound on Friday, June 6 at 2:30 p.m. Admission is by suggested donation of $20 at the door.
Parish Choir Rehearsal
St. John’s Parish Choir is one of Canada’s only fully professional church choirs. Under the direction of Director of Music Patrick Murray, the Parish Choir leads the congregation in Choral Eucharist or Choral Matins on Sundays at 11:00am, and in seasonal Evensongs and services of Lessons and Carols. The Parish Choir has an extensive repertoire, emphasizing both traditional and contemporary musical expression within the Anglican choral tradition with a particular focus on new music by Canadian and international composers.
Parish Choir Rehearsal
St. John’s Parish Choir is one of Canada’s only fully professional church choirs. Under the direction of Director of Music Patrick Murray, the Parish Choir leads the congregation in Choral Eucharist or Choral Matins on Sundays at 11:00am, and in seasonal Evensongs and services of Lessons and Carols. The Parish Choir has an extensive repertoire, emphasizing both traditional and contemporary musical expression within the Anglican choral tradition with a particular focus on new music by Canadian and international composers.
Teaching (Voice and Piano)
The UpTown School of Music is a non-profit school where the teachers work as a collective and keep all of their teaching income so that they can re-invest in their teaching tools and professional training.
Our goal is to provide the highest quality lessons possible through frequent recital opportunities, practice spaces, ongoing professional development for teachers, good instruments, and comfortable surroundings. Our teachers are very experienced and qualified professionals, vetted by the collective before joining the team.
We have an open-door policy. Come have a look at our space, located in the heart of UpTown Waterloo, 3 doors away from Regina and Bridgeport.
For inquiries, please use the contact form on my website!
Choral Service of Holy Communion
Choral Service of Holy Communion (BCP) (1st, 3rd and 5th Sunday of Month)
Parish Choir Rehearsal
St. John’s Parish Choir is one of Canada’s only fully professional church choirs. Under the direction of Director of Music Patrick Murray, the Parish Choir leads the congregation in Choral Eucharist or Choral Matins on Sundays at 11:00am, and in seasonal Evensongs and services of Lessons and Carols. The Parish Choir has an extensive repertoire, emphasizing both traditional and contemporary musical expression within the Anglican choral tradition with a particular focus on new music by Canadian and international composers.
Parish Choir Rehearsal
St. John’s Parish Choir is one of Canada’s only fully professional church choirs. Under the direction of Director of Music Patrick Murray, the Parish Choir leads the congregation in Choral Eucharist or Choral Matins on Sundays at 11:00am, and in seasonal Evensongs and services of Lessons and Carols. The Parish Choir has an extensive repertoire, emphasizing both traditional and contemporary musical expression within the Anglican choral tradition with a particular focus on new music by Canadian and international composers.
Teaching (Voice and Piano)
The UpTown School of Music is a non-profit school where the teachers work as a collective and keep all of their teaching income so that they can re-invest in their teaching tools and professional training.
Our goal is to provide the highest quality lessons possible through frequent recital opportunities, practice spaces, ongoing professional development for teachers, good instruments, and comfortable surroundings. Our teachers are very experienced and qualified professionals, vetted by the collective before joining the team.
We have an open-door policy. Come have a look at our space, located in the heart of UpTown Waterloo, 3 doors away from Regina and Bridgeport.
For inquiries, please use the contact form on my website!
Parish Choir Rehearsal
St. John’s Parish Choir is one of Canada’s only fully professional church choirs. Under the direction of Director of Music Patrick Murray, the Parish Choir leads the congregation in Choral Eucharist or Choral Matins on Sundays at 11:00am, and in seasonal Evensongs and services of Lessons and Carols. The Parish Choir has an extensive repertoire, emphasizing both traditional and contemporary musical expression within the Anglican choral tradition with a particular focus on new music by Canadian and international composers.