2024 - 2025 Season
Welcome to our 2024 - 2025 choral concert season, featuring classic masterpieces to celebrate the holidays, a modern jazz mass and choral arrangements of traditional Indian music.
2024-2025
BAROQUE NoËl
Saturday December 7, 2024
7:30 pm
Humber Valley United Church
76 Anglesey Blvd.
Etobicoke ON M9A 3C1
Experience the festive season as it was celebrated in Europe in the late 17th century as the choir performs Buxtehude’s glorious Magnificat and Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit pour Noël (Midnight Mass for Christmas) with orchestral accompaniment.
The celebration will continue with a selection of carols, including Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium; The Linden Tree Carol by Reginald Jacques and The Holly and the Ivy by Walford Davies.
Kick off the season with a sing-along to some of your favourite carols.
Mass in blue
Saturday April 5, 2025
7:30 pm
Runnymede United Church
432 Runnymede Road
Toronto ON M6S 2Y8
Immerse yourself in a program that blends choral music with jazz rhythms and pure blues harmonies. Mass in Blue, composed in 2003 by Will Todd, is an acclaimed piece that pulls together the driving energy of jazz and the ethereality of the divine. The choir will be accompanied by a combo of piano, drums, bass and alto saxophone.
Delight, also, in musical selections from legends Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington and George Shearing.
ECHOES OF INDIA
Saturday June 7, 2025
7:30 pm
Runnymede United Church
432 Runnymede Road
Toronto ON M6S 2Y8
Join us for a journey through Indian classical music, arranged for choir. With accompaniment of sitar, tabla, and harmonium, renowned flautist Hasheel Lodhia and a guest soprano will lead the ECC through the rhythms and echoes of South Asia.
Also featured in this concert will be newly composed choral music by conductor Henry Renglich and Governor General’s Award-winning author (and chorister) Sarah Henstra.
