Sing Into the Silence (Experience / EAR Series)
Pro Coro performs with the Edmonton Youth Choir and special guests.
Light Always Returns Light (Experience Series)
A cappella selections to ignite your heart and uplift your soul reflecting on light, love, and peace.
Good Friday with Pro Coro Canada (Experience Series)
Pro Coro Canada’s annual Good Friday concert, with special guests A Joyful Noise and Marnie Giesbrecht at the organ.
Frost & Fire: Mentoring Men (Experience / EAR Series)
The Tenors & Basses of Pro Coro welcome 70 singers from the Grande Prairie Boys’ Choir and special guest the Edmonton Swiss Men’s Choir to share the stage for an afternoon of excellent choral music.
New Year’s Eve with Pro Coro Canada (Holiday Series)
Ring in the new year with Pro Coro Canada and enjoy light classical and popular choral music and a glass of bubbles!
The Little Match Girl Passion (Holiday Series)
The annual candlelight performance of a timeless and timely story by Hans Christian Andersen set to music by David Lang.
A Christmas Carol (Experience / Holiday Series)
Revel in an engaging musical dramatization of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
Shades of Love (Experience Series)
Join us for an autumn afternoon full of music and romance!
Path Of Miracles (Experience Series)
Experience this powerful a cappella work about the centuries-old pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.
The Tower and The Garden
An eclectic program featuring the Vaughan String Quartet and #connect
The Tower and The Garden by Gregory Spears
While We War Against Ourselves by Torbjörn Dyrud
The Dying River by Victor Muzhchyl
Sapiens by Laura Hawley
When a Thought of War Comes by Marie-Claire Saindon
Peace, I leave with you by Knut Nystedt
Missae IX
Misa by Ryan Cayabyab
The MISA (Mass) was premiered by the U.P. Concert Chorus under the direction of Prof. Rey Paguio during Ryan’s graduation recital in 1983.
Ryan first published MISA in 1997, with Michael J. Mella as editor. Unfortunately, the 1997 publication was not based on the 1983 manuscript, which was in Cayabyab’s writing; and was nowhere to be found.
Fortunately, Ryan found the initial manuscript in 2001. While moving the bulk of his manuscripts (original compositions and arrangements) from his house to his former office at the San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts, the original handwritten “MISA” surfaced.
Missa Brevis in E-flat Major by Oliver Munar
This Missa Brevis is inspired by various composers whose works Oliver has been fortunate to have performed over the years. You’ll find echoes of the counterpoint of JS Bach, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Missae by both Josef Rheinberger and Frank Martin, and operatic motifs by W.A. Mozart, Georges Bizet and Giacomo Puccini.
The multi-year series with musical settings of the Latin Mass text.
Misa by Ryan Cayabyab
Missa Brevis in E Flat by Oliver Munar, world premiere
Kyrie Eleison, from Indonesian Mass, by Ivan Yohan
We welcome conductor Jonathan Velasco from the Philippines to lead the choir in this unique program
Jonathan Velasco is a much sought-after choral conductor, clinician, and adjudicator in the world today.
Maestro Velasco and his choirs have won first prizes in major choral competitions in Europe. He currently conducts the Ateneo Chamber Singers. He regularly judges international choral competitions in Europe and Asia.
He was a member and assistant conductor of the World Youth Choir, becoming the first Asian conductor in 1996. He has since conducted this prestigious choir two more times, in the 2001 winter session and the 2018 summer session.
Velasco is a regular guest conductor of various orchestras in the Philippines and abroad. He has conducted the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, San Miguel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Manila Symphony Orchestra, the Manila Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Taiwan Youth Orchestra.
Velasco is the Philippine representative to the Interkultur World Choir Council. He was also elected as the first President of the Philippine Choral Directors Association in 2008.
Good Friday with Pro Coro Canada
The annual choral concert commemorating the Passion of Christ with works by Bach, Pärt, Gesualdo, Sandström, and Praulins, with Tammy-Jo Mortensen at the organ.
We welcome conductor Kari Turunen to lead this performance with the choir. Kari Turunen is the Artistic Director of the professional Vancouver Chamber Choir since 2019. Before moving to Vancouver, he was a versatile actor on the Finnish choral and vocal music scene.
During his career in Finland, Dr. Turunen led, among others, Kampin Laulu chamber choir, Chorus Cantorum Finlandiae, Spira Ensemble and the professional early music ensembles Ensemble Petraloysio. As a singer, he was a founding member of Lumen Valo and sang over 250 concerts in Finland and Europe and recorded nine critically acclaimed CDs with the group. He has toured extensively with his ensembles and won numerous prizes with his choirs, both in national and international competitions.
All-Night Vigil
One of choral history’s great treasures, the All-Night Vigil by Sergei Rachmaninoff, with guests Da Camera Singers (Laura Hawley, conductor)
Moonshot IV: The Dayking
Experience choral music with an edge, featuring the Growlers Choir from Montreal, and narrator/poet Fortner Anderson.
The Dayking by Pierre-Luc Senécal
Warning to the Rich by Thomas Jennefelt
Blood, Breath and Other Miracles by Jane Berry
Where once Poe walked by Nicholas Ryan Kelly
Book of Songs by Mari Alice Conrad
Arrache by Pascal Germain-Berardi
Note that there are two in-person performances of this program, and the Sunday performance will also be live-streamed!
New Year’s Eve with Pro Coro Canada
Celebrate the last night of 2022 with choral music and bubbles, and sing-along to Auld Lang Syne!
Three Kings by Healey Willan
Sprüche by Felix Mendelssohn
Santiago, from Path of Miracles, by Joby Talbot
Ye Shall Have A Song by Randall Thompson
Evening Morning Day by David Lang
Ave Maria by Franz Biebl
Please note: The New Year’s Eve concert will not be livestreamed this season.
The Little Match Girl Passion / Christmas 2022
Get Ready for the Holidays 2022
Pro Coro Canada’s annual performance of the Pulitzer Prize winning work by David Lang. A meditative, candle-lit event during Advent.
Dawn Bailey, soprano, sleighbells
Adrienne Sitko, alto, crotales
Ian Bannerman, tenor, glockenspiel
Michael Kurschat, bass, bass drum & tubular bells
This is the choir’s Xmas Show for 2022!
Please note: The Little Match Girl will not be livestreamed this season.
Petite Messe Solennelle
In partnership with the University of Alberta Voice Department, this performance features faculty and current students:
Jacqueline Hernandez, soprano
Catherine Daniel, mezzo-soprano
John Tessier, tenor
Jin Yu, bass
With
Matti Pulkki, accordion
Jessica Robertson, piano
A Thought of War, with #connect
Pro Coro’s ensemble for emerging singers #connect will perform a varied program in several languages and styles, spanning 3 centuries of music on the theme of War and Peace.
Soir de Neige by Francis Poulenc
A Thought of War by Marie-Claire Saindon
Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst by Rudolf Mauersberger
Trois beaux oiseaux by Maurice Ravel
Peace I leave with you by Knut Nystedt
Verleih uns Frieden by Heinrich Schütz
Stomp on the Fire by Andrea Ramsey
Sapiens by Laura Hawley
Mitten wir im Leben sind bei Felix Mendelssohn
The Nightingale
Celebrate 10 years of artistic leadership of conductor Michael Zaugg with some all-time favourites.
The Nightingale by Ugis Praulins
Rain, Rush and Rosebush by Bo Holten
There was a time by Cy Giacomin
Absence by Laura Hawley
I am small by Jane Berry
a boy & a boy by Stuart Beatch, commissioned by Pro Coro Canada
With Matthias Maute, recorder