NS Youth Choir
Sunday September 20, 2015  3pm
Music

 programs@nscf.ns.ca
 902 423-4688

The province’s most talented young choral singers will gather as the Nova Scotia Youth Choir, under the direction of guest conductor, Kellie Walsh, to present the 25th Anniversary concert.

The Nova Scotia Youth Choir is a program of the Nova Scotia Choral Federation, and is celebrating 25 years of bringing choral excellence to the young singers of Nova Scotia. This program provides opportunity for singers ages 16-25 to work intensively on a wide variety of choral repertoire with some of the best choral instructors and directors in the field today.

2015 guest conductor, Kellie Walsh, is one of Canada’s most accomplished youth conductors. Hailing from St. John’s, she is the Artistic Director and Conductor of the award winning Shallaway: Newfoundland and Labrador Youth in Chorus, and the women’s choir Lady Cove. The choir will be gathered for three full days of rehearsal at Acadia University before they present their concert.

The NSYC program builds on expertise already developed through school, church and community choral training and provides a unique opportunity for young singers to work at a very high level with guest conductors from across Canada. These singers are typically leaders in their own communities and NSYC affords them a chance to work with other committed young choral musicians as they further develop their choral skills, while providing a nurturing and empowering environment.

A different guest conductor is invited to take part in the program each year thus providing the returning students an opportunity to work with a number of excellent conductors during their possible ten year span with the choir. Each guest conductor brings a different approach to the choral art and the variation in repertoire, musical style and interpretation provides a unique experience for the singers. The program also provides an excellent professional development opportunity for Nova Scotian resident conductors and accompanists to work with challenging repertoire, a first rate choir, and some of the best conductors working in Canada.

Many NSYC alumni have gone on to represent Nova Scotia in the National Youth Choir of Canada. In May of 2010, one fifth of the singers in this cross-Canada choir were chorally educated through this NSYC program. This speaks to the strength of this program and reputation Nova Scotia has on a national scale in the choral community. Alumni have also been representatives to the World Youth Choir and have become established choral musicians and music educators both at home and across the country.

Alumnus Marcel d’Entremont, winner of the 2104 National Music Festival in voice performance, says of the program: “For me, the Nova Scotia Youth Choir was more than just a choir; it was a program of professional development and an opportunity to develop skills which are essential to the life of a musician, to network with some of the leading figures in the Canadian conducting scene, and to feel inherently more human.”

The music on this year’s program reflects the energy, passion and love these singers have for collective music making. From classics by Willan and Britten, emerging composers like Esenvalds, to world music and a cappella, it is a varied and fun program that highlights the vibrancy, vocal skill and communicative abilities of these young singers.

The choir often performs the Maritime premiere of new repertoire and has occasion to commission new works. As part of the anniversary year, the choir mounted a National Competition for Young Composers. Delightedly, the winner of this competition is native Nova Scotian Edward Enman, originally from Kentville, who grew up in the Annapolis Valley Honour Choir and attending the Choral Federation programs, including many years in Nova Scotia Youth Choir and two years in the National Youth Choir. He is now working on his DMA in piano performance at the Universite de Montreal. His winning composition, “Time’s Small Space” will be premiered on these two concerts.
Pricing & Tickets
Pricing: $15 and $5 students
Poster
487 Main Street
Wolfville, Nova Scotia

 wolfvillebc@gmail.com
 902-542-5524

       

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