Tag Archive: Elora Festival

  1. TorQ Percussion Quartet and Elora Singers

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    TorQ and the Elora Singers joined forces to perform Paul Frehner’s powerful Corpus and to commission three new works for choir and percussion quartet, composed by some of North America’s leading diverse voices, including Carmen Braden, Annika Sokolofsky, Melody McKiver and Leila Adu-Gilmore. The composers bring unique voices to this project, and were meaningfully chosen due to their relationship with nature and its influence in their artform.

  2. Music in the Village presented by Elora Festival

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    Music in the Village presents guest artists from the Elora Festival in a series of free public performances in the Green Space at East Mill and Metcalfe Streets.

    Come enjoy the music that fills this town every summer.

    * Sponsored by Township of Centre Wellington, Centre Wellington Community Foundation, and the County of Wellington

  3. Elora Singers – Choral Evensong

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    Enjoy this intimate performance with The Elora Singers.

    July 14 and July 21

    The Elora Singers

  4. Elora Festival presents Voice of the Weaver

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    Voice of the Weaver is a five-movement concerto for bass clarinet and chamber choir by Halifax-based composer Peter Anthony Togni and Mary Louise Martin, a Mi’kmaw poet, artist, and writer from Millbrook First Nations in Nova Scotia.

    Written for bass clarinetist Jeff Reilly and The Elora Singers conducted by Mark Vuorinen, Voice of the Weaver explores the spiritual, dynamic relationship between the overwhelming awe we feel for the giant forces of nature on the one hand and the simple actions of the day to day on the other.  With intense choral clusters and soaring soprano lines invoking what Martin calls “patterns of great beauty in and through the standing ones” to clear, elegant figures reflecting that “events are quite… are quite ordinary” Peter Anthony Togni captures the full impact of Mary Louise Martin’s visionary poetry.

    In the end all is summed up in the simple but profound final two words of the poem, “wela’lin niscum” or, thank you creator.

    Ticket holders are invited to arrive early for a pre-concert chat at 3pm with composer Peter-Anthony Togni. 

  5. Music in the Village with the Elora Festival

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    Music in the Village presents guest artists from the Elora Festival in a series of free public performances in the Green Space at East Mill and Metcalfe Streets.

    Come enjoy the music that fills this town every summer.

    * Sponsored by Township of Centre Wellington, Centre Wellington Community Foundation, and the County of Wellington

  6. Elora Festival – Twilight: At Day’s Last Glow

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    In this program, Peter-Anthony Togni and Jeff Reilly explore the full range of their musical experience, from modality to modernism, in an approach that blurs any simple distinctions between improvisation and composition. Performing jazz classics by Miles Davis like Blue in Green and Gregorian Chant based works like their Ave Verum, along with a full slate of their original compositions, they remind us that performances with virtuosity, musicality and sensitivity can cross stylistic boundaries.

    Peter-Anthony Togni, organ and piano
    Jeff Reilly, bass clarinet

     

     

  7. Elora Festival – Baltic Voices

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    Choral music is a way of life in the three Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.  The Elora Singers bring to life a program of music from these rich choral countries including repertoire by Arvo Pärt, Rytis Mažulis, Peteris Vasks, Cyrillus Kreek, and our festival friend Ēriks Ešenvalds.

    The Elora Singers

  8. The Elora Singers: Choral Evensong

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    Enjoy this intimate performance with The Elora Singers.

    July 14 and July 21

    The Elora Singers

  9. Elora Festival – The Gesualdo Six with Owain Park

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    The Gesualdo Six with Owain Park: English Motets

    During the renaissance, musical composition flourished, but it was a time of great change, fuelled by religious division. This program traces music written by some of the English renaissance masters over a period of two hundred years, encompassing florid medieval-sounding works by Forest and Sheryngham, intricately woven polyphonic works by Tallis and Byrd, and the beautiful simplicity of Tomkins and White.

  10. Elora Festival – An Evening With Sarah Slean

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    Signed to Atlantic/Warner Records at the tender age of nineteen, 4-time JUNO nominee and modern-day renaissance woman Sarah Slean has since released 11 albums in over 10 countries worldwide- but perhaps the most astonishing aspect of her artistry is its breadth.   Sarah returns to the Elora Festival stage and will collaborate with our ensemble-in-residence, The Elora Singers.

    Sarah Slean
    The Elora Singers

    Andrew Chung, violin
    Julie Baumgartel, violin
    Rory McLeod, viola
    Ben Bolt Martin, cello

     

     

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