Since 2008 we've built an enviable reputation as one of the country’s finest and most versatile a cappella groups. We possess a wealth of experience from the worlds of classical, sacred and popular music and balance our love for the old renaissance masTer...  moreSince 2008 we've built an enviable reputation as one of the country’s finest and most versatile a cappella groups. We possess a wealth of experience from the worlds of classical, sacred and popular music and balance our love for the old renaissance masTers with a passion for exciting conTemporary composers through commissioning and performing our own original maTerial. Regardless of what we sing we believe the universal principles of perfect tonal blend, colour, and precise intonation, shine through in every performance.  less

April 20, 2013 Cantores CelesTes Women's Choir of Toronto. DirecTed by Kelly Galbraith. Third movement of Gabriel Fauré's Requiem - Sanctus, with The Emperor String QuarTet, William O'Meara on organ and featuring Ellen Meyer on piano. Video and Aud...  moreApril 20, 2013 Cantores CelesTes Women's Choir of Toronto. DirecTed by Kelly Galbraith. Third movement of Gabriel Fauré's Requiem - Sanctus, with The Emperor String QuarTet, William O'Meara on organ and featuring Ellen Meyer on piano. Video and Audio: Patric McGroarty www.stclarens.com additional editing: JA STewart www.cantorescelesTes.com  

Taken during our residential rehearsal weekend at Loretto School. Photo by Gordon Smith

The GraduaTe Choir NZ with Philip Smith (organ) perform "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day" by John Gardner (1917-2011). A recording of this piece is available on the CD "Sing in Exultation" http://www.graduaTechoir.co.nz/experience_cd_sie.htm --- ...  moreThe GraduaTe Choir NZ with Philip Smith (organ) perform "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day" by John Gardner (1917-2011). A recording of this piece is available on the CD "Sing in Exultation" http://www.graduaTechoir.co.nz/experience_cd_sie.htm --- The GraduaTe Choir NZ Director of Music: Terence Maskell http://www.graduaTechoir.co.nz http://www.facebook.com/TheGraduaTeChoirNZ http://www.twitTer.com/GraduaTeChoirNZ --- Recorded 14 December 2008 at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand. http://www.holy-trinity.org.nz ---  less

Composed by STephen Barker and first performed in Salisbury Cathedral. This recording was taken during Evensong at CanTerbury Cathedral in March 2012 when the choir of St STephen's Church, CanTerbury sang it as the anthem. If you'd like to order copie...  moreComposed by STephen Barker and first performed in Salisbury Cathedral. This recording was taken during Evensong at CanTerbury Cathedral in March 2012 when the choir of St STephen's Church, CanTerbury sang it as the anthem. If you'd like to order copies of the anthem, please contact me via my websiTe.  

Under the collaborative leadership of top producer and director Adrian Peacock, the inTernationally renowned expert in Spanish early music Bruno Turner and bass-baritone Jamie W. Hall, CONTINUUM brings together twelve of the finest professional consort si...  moreUnder the collaborative leadership of top producer and director Adrian Peacock, the inTernationally renowned expert in Spanish early music Bruno Turner and bass-baritone Jamie W. Hall, CONTINUUM brings together twelve of the finest professional consort singers in London, carefully chosen to produce a unique and vibrant sound that celebraTes the very best qualities of the English choral tradition and the powerful beauty of the uninhibiTed human voice. This all-male ensemble has made 16th century Spanish sacred polyphony and chant the core of its repertoire, and seeks to perform this wonderful music at the original, sonorous low pitch as it would have been heard in Spanish cathedrals and religious institutions during Spain’s “Golden Age”.  less

The third of three movements by composer Joseph Dillon ford for male chorus, based on DanTe's La Divina Commedia (L'inferno), sung by the dwsChorale. Video recreaTed in honour of the composer "O sanguis meus, o superinfusa Gratia Dei, sicut tibi, cu...  moreThe third of three movements by composer Joseph Dillon ford for male chorus, based on DanTe's La Divina Commedia (L'inferno), sung by the dwsChorale. Video recreaTed in honour of the composer "O sanguis meus, o superinfusa Gratia Dei, sicut tibi, cui bis unquam Coeli ianua reclusa?" "O thou my blood, O overflowing Grace of God, to whom, as unto thee, was e’er the GaTe of Heaven unlocked a second time?” Così quel lume; ond’ io m’ atTesi a lui; poscia rivolsi alla mia Donna il viso, e quinci e quindi stupefatto fui; Thus spoke that light; hence I thereto gave heed; then to my Lady turning back my face, I was on this side and on that amazed; chè dentro agli occhi suoi ardeva un riso tal, ch’ io pensai co’ miei toccar lo fondo della mia gloria e del mio Paradiso. for such a smile was glowing in her eyes, that I with my thought I had touched the depths both of my glory and of my Paradise  less

Cantores CelesTes Women's Choir Kelly Galbraith, Director The Emperor String QuarTet Matthew Coons, organ Paul Otway, Trumpet www.cantorescelesTes.com www.facebook.com/CantoresCelesTes twitTer.com/Cantores_Choir December 7, 2013 Runnymede UniTed C...  moreCantores CelesTes Women's Choir Kelly Galbraith, Director The Emperor String QuarTet Matthew Coons, organ Paul Otway, Trumpet www.cantorescelesTes.com www.facebook.com/CantoresCelesTes twitTer.com/Cantores_Choir December 7, 2013 Runnymede UniTed Church, Toronto  

The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford David Crown (conductor) Robert Pecksmith (organ) KaTe Piddington (soprano) Evensong at St. Paul's Cathedral (London), 6 February 2012 60th Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's Accession to the Throne Facebook:...  moreThe Choir of Somerville College, Oxford David Crown (conductor) Robert Pecksmith (organ) KaTe Piddington (soprano) Evensong at St. Paul's Cathedral (London), 6 February 2012 60th Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's Accession to the Throne Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/somervillechoir WebsiTe: http://www.somervillemusicsociety.com