The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir pronounces an thrilling array of group occasions for the 2023/2024 season, led by an all-new Neighborhood Engagement group underneath the creative path of Jean-Sébastien Vallée. From free performances to choral workshops, the TMChoir returns this season with each long-time choral favourites and new group endeavours.

To facilitate these new ventures, the TMChoir appointed Lesley Emma Bouza as Neighborhood Engagement Coordinator and Justin Jalea as Neighborhood Engagement Advisor. “This season, I’m excited to discover the varied communities and identities that intersect inside TMChoir and to higher perceive our choir’s personal id,” says Jalea. “I imagine that realizing ourselves higher will assist us forge stronger connections with the communities we signify and people we hope to interact.”

The TMChoir additionally pronounces Dr. Tracy Wong because the 2023/2024 TMChoir Composer in Residence. Dr. Wong is a choral conductor, music educator, composer, vocalist and pianist. The Composer in Residence position was inaugurated final season. Throughout her tenure, Dr. Wong will premiere plenty of new choral works, the primary on the choir’s Carmina Burana concert events at Roy Thomson Corridor on October 26 and 27.

She can also be the keynote speaker for the TMChoir Change: A day of choral group workshops Be part of the TMChoir and the Toronto choral group for a day of workshops, masterclasses and lectures on a wide range of matters centred round choral music, vocal music and musical group constructing. Facilitators come from throughout the TMChoir and musical communities. This one-day occasion will embody occasions for each choral music fanatic, from the armchair music fan to lively choral singers of each degree. Learn and be taught extra right here.

Singsation The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir welcomes you to their Saturday morning singing workshop, Singsation. Every workshop is led by a member of TMChoir’s creative group and these facilitators will information you within the exploration of their choral music of selection throughout a wide range of genres, cultures and musical eras. Begin your Saturday with individuals who like to sing! Learn and be taught extra right here.

Take the Podium Conducting Symposium — Might 21 – 25, 2024: The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s annual Choral Conducting Symposium returns this season underneath the management of Creative Director Jean-Sébastien Vallée. This system invitations rising conductors and those that want to refine their abilities to take part in a five-day sequence of workshops and masterclasses with Creative Director Jean-Sébastien. Contributors could have the uncommon alternative to conduct the 140 voices of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and the 24-voice skilled core of the TMChoir in rehearsals all through the week and within the concluding free public efficiency, which is live-streamed. Learn and be taught extra right here.

• Utility deadline December eighth, 2023.

Choral Composition Competitors: The Debbie Fleming Prize for Choral Composition was created in 2015 to help the winner of the brand new annual TMChoir Choral Composition Competitors for rising composers. Debbie Fleming is a TMChoir alumna who sang within the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir for 40 years and who retired in June 2015. The profitable work is premiered by the TMChoir. Learn and be taught extra right here.

• Utility deadline January 13, 2024.

Pop-Up Concert events: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Pop-Up Concert events deliver the expertise of choral music to a wide range of areas and audiences in and across the metropolis. Hear members of the TMChoir briefly, twenty-minute performances of gorgeous music in a wide range of kinds, from the masterworks of the previous to the latest creations of at the moment’s choral composers.

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