Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto

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Enlivening Toronto’s arts community for 49 years, the award-winning Amadeus Choir is a semi-professional choir of auditioned voices from all parts of the GTA and surrounding areas. The Choir champions 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. Known well beyond Toronto through tours, festivals, recordings, and national and international radio broadcasts, the Choir collaborates with many professional performing arts organizations in the GTA.

The Amadeus Choir is proud to take a leading role in educating the next generation of choral musicians by providing workshops for conductors, composers, and students. The Choir is known for its strong support of Canadian music, and regularly commissions work from established and emerging Canadian composers.

Throughout its history, the Amadeus Choir has received numerous awards, most recently the Association of Canadian Choral Communities' award for Most Innovative Performance in 2014 for “Music of the Spheres,” a multi-media collaboration with the Elmer Iseler Singers, the Ontario Science Centre, and the Roberta Bondar Foundation.

In 2019, after celebrating the 35-year leadership of Lydia Adams, the Choir welcomed Kathleen Allan as Artistic Director and Conductor.
4386 Sheppard Ave E, Toronto, ON
416-446-0188
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Language(s): English
Grade levels that programming is provided for: Intermediate (9 - 10), Senior (11 - 12)
Communities served: Adults, Seniors
Organization type: Non-profit

This organization offers online programming
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  • Music

  • In-School Workshops

  • Performances

Featured Project

Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil (Vespers) Education Package for Grades 9 - 12

We are offering a unique educational package in connection with our Vespers concert that took place in April 2023. This education package gives students an opportunity to engage in a multi-arts learning experience by watching a choral concert, participating in a workshop and engaging with our resource guide. Students will take a deep dive into the power of music and its ability to offer peace and a space to reflect. Activities in the resource guide not only encourage students to explore and discuss current events, but also connect to expectations in the Ontario Arts Curriculum (grades 9-12).

About the concert
Originally planned as a full performance of Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil in 2020, this concert developed into a program that surrounds excerpts of the Vespers with music by Ukrainian, Latvian, and Canadian composers on themes of evening prayer, seeking peace, and reconciliation. We were delighted to partner with the Guelph Chamber Choir for this joint concert.

The world premiere of “will I, night” by Ian Cusson, with poetry by Marilyn Dumont, brings Indigenous ways of knowing to the concert’s themes of healing and restoration. Music by Larysa Kuzmenko, Iryna Aleksiychuk, Shavon Lloyd, Uģis Prauliņš, Francesca Hauser, and Jon Washburn were woven amongst the Rachmaninoff and Cusson to create a transportive musical experience.

Concert repertoire

  • Sergei Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil (excerpts)
  • Shavon Lloyd Alleluia
  • Ian Cusson will I, night (world premiere)
  • Larysa Kuzmenko Sviatyi Bozhe
  • Uģis Prauliņš The Way Children Sleep
  • Iryna Aleksiychuk Holy is the Lord of Hosts
  • Francesca Hauser Twilight
  • Jon Washburn Dona Nobis Pacem

Included in the Virtual Education Package

  • An archival recording of our April 2, 2023 concert
  • Resource guide which includes information on the pieces of music, the composers, the artistic director’s process, discussion questions and activities for the classroom
  • SATB Sheet music for ‘Twilight’ and a note from composer, Francesca Hauser
  • Links to livestreamed conversations with Kathleen Allan and select composers

Add a virtual workshop with Artistic Director Kathleen Allan and a post-workshop Q & A for $200.
* We are happy to discuss a sliding scale for schools that are unable to pay full price

Contact us education@amadeuschoir.com

Profile last updated: Jun 13 2024

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