We’re offering a semester tune-up for High School choirs, 3 hours on a Thursday morning, where the students learn new repertoire, get coaching by section from PCC singers, and also meet choir nerds from other schools.

This workshop will then lead into their participation in our season opener, if they choose to do that.

We already have interest from choirs numbering in over 120 students, so a great response to our initiative.

Our tour homecoming concert, featuring much of the same repertoire, including Brahms, Beatch, Hawley, and other Edmonton composers. Pending on the program length and tour success, we’ll also do The Nightingale by Praulins, with Mathias Mautte, recorder. If you’re not on tour, you can opt to join a tour-prep rehearsal to then already be on the roster for the September concert.

With the workshop for High School choirs right before (see below), we also will have guests, and we’ll perform a selection of Grimm’s tales by Byrne.

Featuring traditional repertoire, including music from the Romantic period, and works by Tormis. This concert will also feature our partner Naheyawin, and we will include indigenous perspectives on Autumn and Harvest.

Composer Allan Gilliland and librettist Vern Theissen are working on an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Will. We will be reading through the first musical drafts.
The intention is to premiere a 60 minute a cappella work with narrator in 2028 (similar concept as A Christmas Carol)

The Tenors & Basses are on tour with Axios Men’s Ensemble, presenting the Juno Winning work in Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Montreal, Ottawa, Hamilton, London, Kitchener and Toronto.

This will be the 4th edition of Sheehan’s Christmas Carol, performed in Fort Saskatchewan at the Shell Theatre, and then in Edmonton at First Presbyterian.

We’re looking for additional week-night performance opportunities of this production.

For the 15th time, our quartet will perform the Match Girl Passion by David Lang. We’re nearing the end of its run, and another work by Lang will eventually replace the lmgp.

Celebrate on the last day of the year with some fun songs, and a ‘best-of’ the past seasons. As always, we’ll have some popular tunes included.

We plan to do this concert at a different venue, at Ortona Arts Hub.

Continuing this multi-year series, we’re coming up to the 10th edition of our concert featuring settings of the Latin Mass.

This particular edition will span 500 years of Masses, from the Spanish Golden Age to the 21st century.

The Vancouver Chamber Choir is on tour, and will join us here in Edmonton for a concert.

There will be joint-repertoire, including some premieres, and each choir has their own feature.

We’re also looking to host a Japanese Jazz musician who has written for choir … who knows what will come of that!

The annual Good Friday concert program features a wide range of works. We are in talks with Chorale Saint-Jean for a collaboration, in which case we might do a larger work with instruments.

We hope to have an emerging composer participate in this production too, plus emerging singers.

Mathias Mautte, recorder player, is also a renowned composer. He has written a work for Pro Coro, for 8-12 part choir and cello, on texts about the great fire of London (thus the 1666).

This work will be bookended by music by contemporary and period British and Canadian composers.

The Calgary performance of A Conversation, produced by Noel Fanaeian. We will leave early Saturday and will be back late Sunday afternoon.

The final concert of the season is not confirmed RE repertoire as we’re evaluating to do a repeat performance of A Conversation by Noel Fanaeian in Edmonton, after the weekend performances in Calgary.

If not, this concert will feature new libretto and music based on Edmonton stories, new and old.

Our Artist-in-residence is Saman Shahi for the next two years. You might recall him from his visit during Light of Paradise.

Saman will be in town a couple of times to workshop some music and will write a larger work for the 27.28 season.

supported by an ECF grant, we’re working with Naheyawin and their founder Jacquelyn to create sung land acknowledgments. There are workshops still in this and then also early next season to learn and share in the spirit of Truth and Reconciliation and to find process to improvise.