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DaCamera 2013-2014 Season Posters FINAL.pdf 1 11/14/2013 10:07:43 AM DaCamera 2013-2014 Season Posters FINAL.pdf 1 11/14/2013 10:07:43 AM C M Y CM MY CY CMY K C M Y CM MY CY Saturday, December 14, 2013 - 8:00 PM CMY K John Brough, conductor Seasonal a cappella choral music featuring the sublime beauty of Saturday,Arvo Pärt and December Jonathan Dove 14, , 2013 - 8:00 PM as well as imaginative settings of traditional carols by Ola Gjeilo. John Brough, conductor Seasonal a cappella choral music featuring the sublime beauty of Advance ticket adult: $18.00 Arvo Pärt and Jonathan Dove, Advance ticket student/senior: $13.00 asAll wellSaints’ as Cathedralimaginative settings of traditionalDoor ticket adult: $20.00 carols by Ola Gjeilo. Door ticket student/senior: $15.00 10035-103 Street Advance tickets may be purchased Edmonton, Alberta online at: www.dacamera.ab.ca Advance ticket adult: $18.00 Advance ticket student/senior: $13.00 All Saints’ Cathedral Door ticket adult: $20.00 Door ticket student/senior: $15.00 10035-103 Street Advance tickets may be purchased Edmonton, Alberta online at: www.dacamera.ab.ca Programme Da Camera Singers John Brough, Artistic Director Magnificat – Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) Loretta Dueck, Accompanist Miriam Krause, Meghan Rayment and Jolene Rech, Soprano RJ Chambers, Choral Assistant Kimberley McMann, Business Manager There Is No Rose – Don Macdonald (b. 1966) Meghan Rayment, Soprano Soprano Alto Tenor Bass Kathy Drouin-Carey Michelle Andrews RJ Chambers Scott Allison The Three Kings – Jonathan Dove (b. 1959) Miriam Krause Jo-Anne Bacon Rem Kooistra Fred Osman Kasujja Meghan Rayment and Miriam Krause, Soprano Cheryl Krueger Kathleen Brough Wayne Poon Gary Krueger Wendy Legaarden Cathy Grant Kevin Riep Alto Lo Meghan Rayment Celeste Ireland Russ Wilkinson Bruce Shaw Gaudete – Karl Jenkins (b. 1944) Wendy Vanderwel, Soprano Jolene Rech Ruth Krahn * Fred Wright Frank Thede Jo-Anne Bacon, Alto Elizabeth Stolte Amanda Nix-Lemko RJ Chambers, Tenor Nicole Toupin Judith Plumb Fred Osman Kasujja and Frank Thede,Bass Wendy Vanderwel Barb Sabo Katherine Wells Christmas Carols, Volume 1 – Ola Gjeilo (b. 1978) *not singing in this performance O Come, O Come, Emmanuel In the Bleak Midwinter God Rest you Merry, Gentlemen Wendy Vanderwel, Nicole Toupin, Soprano I n t e r m i s s i o n The Lamb – John Tavener (1944-2013) O Magnum Mysterium – Lee Dengler Christmas Carols, Volume 2 – Ola Gjeilo Away in a Manger The Holly and the Ivy Since its inception in 1961, Da Camera Singers, season, Da Camera Singers has performed on Coventry Carol now under the direction of John Brough, has many occasions with the Edmonton Symphony The First Nowell established a strong presence in the Alberta Orchestra and the Alberta Baroque Ensemble Miriam Krause and Jolene Rech, Soprano choral community and holds the distinction of under the direction of such esteemed conductors RJ Chambers, Tenor being Edmonton’s longest-standing chamber as Bernard Labadie, Ivars Taurins and William choir. The choir performs a diverse repertoire that Eddins. In March 2012, Da Camera Singers, as well Sleep, Little Baby, Sleep – Jake Runestad (b. 1986) encompasses classical music from the Renaissance as many alumni singers from the choir, celebrated to the 21st century, oratorios, and folk song its 50th anniversary with a presentation of Carl Run, Shepherds, Run! – Jonathan Dove arrangements and other lighter works. As well as Orff ’sCarmina Burana. being active with their own annual three-concert John Brough, Artistic Director RJ Chambers, Choral Assistant Dr. John Brough is in his ninth year as artistic director RJ Chambers began his great love of music early in his of Da Camera Singers. He has led the choir in concerts childhood. He began studying piano as a young boy featuring such works as Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana; Bach’s and began vocal and choral training in Grade 8. After Cantata No. 4, Christ Lag in Todes Banden; and Handel’s graduating from high school, RJ pursued a Bachelor of Arts Dixit Dominus. Dr. Brough has also prepared the choir for degree in Music with an emphasis in vocal performance appearances with the Alberta Baroque Ensemble and the and graduated with honours. While studying at college, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. RJ gained a great passion for music theory and harmony. Dr. Brough received his Doctor of Music degree from He served as a teaching assistant for advanced music the University of Alberta and studied conducting with theory and harmony courses as well as privately tutoring Leonard Ratzlaff, Debra Cairns and Malcolm Forsyth a number of theory and harmony students. Currently, (Alberta); Jon Washburn (Vancouver); Lawrence Ewashko RJ sings with the University of Alberta Madrigal Singers (Ontario); and Frieder Bernius (Stuttgart, Germany). In and has recently sung with Scona Chamber Singers November 2008, he led the Alberta Baroque Ensemble and Pro Coro Canada. As well, he has a large amount of and Richard Eaton Singers in a rare production of Handel’s accompaniment experience and currently serves as the Solomon with world-renowned soprano Nancy Argenta music director of Parkland Celebration Choir. and countertenor Daniel Taylor. Dr. Brough is sought after throughout Canada as an adjudicator and clinician. He sits on the board of examiners for Conservatory Canada. He currently teaches music history and conducting at the Concordia University College School of Music. Dr. Brough has sung with Musica Divina (Ottawa) and Madrigal Singers (Edmonton) and continues to perform with Pro Coro Canada. He is organist and director of music at Holy Trinity Anglican Church. John lives in Sherwood Park with his wife Kathleen and their daughter Annie. Loretta Dueck, Accompanist A native Albertan, Loretta Dueck completed her Bachelor of Music degree in piano at the University of Alberta with Professor Alexandra Munn. Previous studies include a B.Ed. and a B.A. in music. In 1975, upon completion of her B.Ed. degree, Ms. Dueck taught high school in Brisbane, Australia. In 1984, Ms. Dueck was employed by the University of Alberta as an accompanist in the voice studios and continued in that position until 1991. She has also toured with the Alberta Opera Touring Association, and is presently involved in teaching privately and accompanying. Da Camera is delighted to have Loretta Dueck as our resident pianist, a position she has held for many glorious years! divisions. Motives from this melody are found many divided voices within the sections of Program Notes throughout the piece, used as accompanying the choir, creating a lovely, luscious sound. Of This evening’s concert explores some of the as it begins, subdued and peaceful. figures under stretched-out melodic passages. particular interest are the simple but beautiful most beautiful and creative settings of seasonal Jonathan Dove is one of Britain’s most The general feeling of the piece becomes setting of Away in a Manger and the creative music written in the last thirty years. highly accomplished and commissioned occasionally quite chaotic, depicting a large waltz effect found in theCoventry Carol. The opening piece on the program, Estonian composers. He is equally comfortable writing group of shepherds running every which way, Although the carols will be very familiar to composer Arvo Pärt’s Magnificat, the Canticle for unaccompanied choir as for full operatic organizing their forces toward Bethlehem. most of you, the arrangements are so inspiring of Mary, is written in the tintinnabuli style, forces. The Three Kings, a setting of words Karl Jenkins’s very short setting of the that they give new life to the pieces. a compositional technique invented by the by Dorothy L. Sayers, was commissioned for traditional 16th-century Piae Cantiones On November 12 of this year, we lost one of composer himself in the 1970s. Tintinnabuli is the 2000 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols carol Gaudete is an extremely energetic England’s finest choral composers with the a word describing the sound of a struck bell. at King’s College Cambridge. Sayers’s division arrangement, making use of unexpected passing of Sir John Tavener. His legacy includes Long sustained of the kings into harmonic shifts that a wealth of choral lines and clean three ages, with a give the piece a very literature that is homophonic stanza each—young, angular feel, creating performed all over (chordal) writing are middle and old an interesting mix the world. His used throughout, respectively—gives of medieval and setting of William creating a clarity the piece its structure; modern at the Blake’s The Lamb of tone, but at the melancholic same time. It was was composed for the same time a mood is immediately commissioned and the 1983 Festival sense of suspended established by the recorded by Nigel of Nine Lessons animation. Pärt beautifully simple Short’s Tenebrae and Carols at King’s alternates between lullaby refrain. Dove ensemble in 2006. College Cambridge. duet lines, in which achieves a magical The two featured It is simple in form one voice carries a transformation carol collections and short in length, simple melody while at the start of on our program yet powerfully the other (sung the third stanza, this evening come beautiful. John tonight by three by unexpectedly from Norwegian Rutter describes soprano voices) switching to the composer Ola Tavener as having sings one sustained major mode. He Gjeilo (Yay-lo). The the “very rare gift” of note, and full lush then expands the seven carols were being able to “bring choral sections. scoring at “many a commissioned an audience to a There is no time gaud and glittering by Kammerkoret deep silence.” And, signature given, toy,” the inner voices Nova in 2011, and according to Steven and the piece flows providing a sparkling published in 2012 Isserlis, “he had along at a chant-like pace.