Ontario Youth Choir 2012
Applications for the 2012 Ontario Youth Choir are now being received.
2012/01/04
Each summer, 40 choristers between the ages of 16 and 23 are chosen from across the province to participate in the Ontario Youth Choir. This year the choir will rehearse and stay on the beautiful campus of the University of Ottawa under the inspired leadership of conductor Michael Zaugg. There will be a three city tour finishing with the final concert in Toronto on August 26, 2012.
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Info letter St. Lawrence Choir
For immediate release
December 20, 2011
Dear friends,
We are happy to report that the first few months of St. Lawrence Choir's 40th Anniversary Season have been both busy and successful.
OSM / Beethoven 9: The season kicked off in style with the St. Lawrence Choir's participation in the inauguration festivities for La Maison Symphonique de Montréal. The choir performed Beethoven's …
In conversation with Michael Zaugg
By Irene Apanovitch
Last Sunday, Pro Coro Canadaperformed a concert titled Path of Wonder - a fantastic event led by Swiss-born, Montreal-based conductor Michael Zaugg. It was a great concert, one that brought spectacular repertoire our way. Actually, that afternoon that I discovered what is now my current favourite piece of music, …
De Profundis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Montreal, QC, Canada, Saturday, October 29, 2011
DE PROFUNDIS : voces boreales and Michael Zaugg – a choral journey through Light and Darkness, with exclusive readings by Hélèlen Dorion
Fitting the dark days of November, the choir voces boreales and Artistic Director Michael Zaugg will present a unique a cappella choral program, featuring music by Brahms, Mendelssohn, Whitacre, Gjeilo and Purcell. …
Review - Cantata Singers more than up to the Vespers
BY RICHARD TODD, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
Russian Voices
The Cantata Singers of Ottawa and the Saint Lawrence Choir of Montreal, Michael Zaugg, conductor
Rachmaninov’s All Night Vigil, op. 37, commonly called the Vespers, is familiar to Ottawa choral music lovers. It has been in the Cantata Singer’ repertoire for a long time. Not counting Sunday afternoon, they’ve performed it at least twice in the past, in 1998 and 2001 and the Ottawa Choral Society has had a go at it a couple of years later.
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Russian Voices
4th October 2011 : For Immediate Release
Rachmaninoff Vespers to open St. Lawrence Choir’s 40th Anniversary Season
Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil (more widely known as the Vespers) will be the major work hear at the opening concert of the St. Lawrence Choir’s 40th Anniversary season.
The concert will take place at the Church of the Immaculate Conception (Église Immaculée-Conception)…
Cantata Singers Ottawa - 2011/2012 season
[le français suit]
Dear Friends of the Cantata Singers of Ottawa,
It is time to kick off our exciting new season of concerts under the direction of Michael Zaugg. You will find the details of each concert in the brochure and on our website: www.cantatasingersottawa.ca.
This season, we start with Russian Voices featuring Rachmaninoff’s profoundly moving All-Night Vigil. This will be a thrilling joint production with Montreal’s St Lawrence Choir, first on October 15 in Montreal, and again on October 16 in Ottawa. …
Michael Zaugg guest-conducting the Nova Scotia Youth Choir 2011!
September 23, 2011
For Immediate Release
NOVA SCOTIA’S PROVINCIAL YOUTH CHOIR PERFORMS TWO WORLD PREMIERS IN CONCERTS DEDICATED TO LOVE
The 2011 Nova Scotia Youth Choir, will present concerts under the direction of guest conductor Michael Zaugg on Saturday October 1st at 7:30 p.m. at Zion United Church, Liverpool and on Sunday October 2nd at 4:00 p.m. at Église St. Bernard, St. …
St. Lawrence Choir - 40th anniversary season
For immediate release
20th September 2011
St. Lawrence Choir - 40th ANNIVERSARY SEASON - A year of major works and collaborations
“We have prepared a year of beautiful and extraordinary masterworks. A great year of celebration awaits us all, a real musical 'crescendo': from a cappella repertoire with 120 singers to a boisterous evening for choir and brass band to a passionate culmination of choir, international soloists and full orchestra. …
Dixit Dominus - Cantata Singers Ottawa
Concert review: Sparse turnout surprising for popular ensembles
BY RICHARD TODD, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
MAY 30, 2011
For its final concert of the regular season, the Cantata Singers and their conductor, Michael Zaugg, teamed up with the Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra. Considering that both ensembles enjoy considerable followings and that their program consisted of music by Handel and Haydn, the sparse turnout was as surprising as it must have been disappointing for the organizers. …
