According to the American Psychological Association the benefits of music lessons for children offer a wide range of rewards. These benefits include fine-tuning sensitivity to speech and emotion, as well as intellectual benefits. In fact...

Dedicated to the performance of sacred music from varied religious traditions and historical periods, Angelus performs music ranging from medieval chant and polyphony to the American Sacred Harp tradition and contemporary Irish sacred music.

December 7, 2013 Cantores Celestes, directed by Kelly Galbraith, performing R. Murray Schafer's Snowforms. The text consists of Inuit words for various kinds of snow: apingault, first snowfall mauyk, soft snow akelrorak, drifting snow pokakt...  moreDecember 7, 2013 Cantores Celestes, directed by Kelly Galbraith, performing R. Murray Schafer's Snowforms. The text consists of Inuit words for various kinds of snow: apingault, first snowfall mauyk, soft snow akelrorak, drifting snow pokaktok, snow like salt Video and Audio: Patric McGroarty www.stclarens.com additional editing: JA Stewart www.cantorescelestes.com Celebrating 25 Years !  

The Inspira Chamber Choir (formerly Calgary Youth Chorus) performs the Canadian folksong "Un Canadien Errant" arranged by Mark Sirett in competition at the 10th Golden Gate InterNational Choir Festival. Berkeley, CA, USA

What Child is This - arr: Pierre Massie (choral premiere), sung by The Stairwell Carollers Virtual Choir, 2020. Individual song parts recorded by the choristers using their own equipment following lead videos made by our Director, Pierre. Pierre then pu...  moreWhat Child is This - arr: Pierre Massie (choral premiere), sung by The Stairwell Carollers Virtual Choir, 2020. Individual song parts recorded by the choristers using their own equipment following lead videos made by our Director, Pierre. Pierre then put together the video using Final Cut Pro. A message from the Director: "Christmas 2020 is the first in our 43-year history where we haven’t been able to stage live concerts, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still sing. So, after planning, rehearsing and recording, we are proud to present "What Child is This?" - one selection from our Virtual Christmas Concert of 6 carols. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nstkQZ9-5Gs We hope you will enjoy our renditions of old favourites, some in new settings by our director, along with a few lesser known pieces from our carol archives. I cannot be more proud of my musical colleagues for forging through the complex logistics of putting these videos together. I thank them for their loyalty to our fans and their fellow c...    less

Winning performance at the German National Choir Competition 2010 in Dortmund

We are dedicated to the research and diffusion of dramatic colonial music. Our project El Otro en la Sociedad Criolla focused on compositions on the issues of minority groups discriminated against during the colony, such as indigenous peoples, blacks, gyp...  moreWe are dedicated to the research and diffusion of dramatic colonial music. Our project El Otro en la Sociedad Criolla focused on compositions on the issues of minority groups discriminated against during the colony, such as indigenous peoples, blacks, gypsies and the disabled. We love music in Spanish and the native languages ​​of Spanish America. We love creating theater from these themes.  

"Unclouded Day" , from "Heavenly Home: Three American Songs" TTBB Arr Shawn Kirchner 2018.

Rosthern Junior College Chorale and Canadian Mennonite University Chamber Choir in performance in April, 2009. This is a fabulous arrangment by Tony Funk of Stuart Townend's beautiful piece.

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] There were two articles in the UK National press a few years ago, one bemoaning the fact that we don’t sing Christmas carols together as much as we u...