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October 18 New Music Release LUMINOUS VOICES PRESENTS October 18 New Music Release Photo by Kenton Smith Zoom October 18, 2020 3PM OUR WHY: CHORAL MUSIC OF EXCELLENCE AND REFINEMENT TRANSCENDS TIME AND PLACE, EXPRESSES EMOTION AND EXPERIENCE, CONNECTS, AND TRANSFORMS COMMUNITIES. OUR HOW: LUMINOUS VOICES, CALGARY’S PROFESSIONAL CHAMBER CHOIR, WAS FOUNDED IN 2012 BY CONDUCTOR AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR TIMOTHY SHANTZ. WE UNITE LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS AND ORGANIZATIONS TO ILLUMINATE CHORAL MUSIC OF THE PAST AND PRESENT, SPANNING CULTURES AND TRADITIONS. WE ENGAGE AUDIENCES IN CALGARY AND BEYOND THROUGH EXCEPTIONAL SONIC EXPERIENCES ENCOMPASSING LIVE AND VIRTUAL PERFORMANCES, RECORDINGS, WORKSHOPS, NEW COMMISSIONS BY CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS, AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT. Luminous Voices, founded in 2012 by conductor and Artistic Director Dr. Board of Directors Timothy Shantz, continues to thrill Cathy Billington | PRESIDENT audiences in Calgary and beyond David Partridge | VICE-PRESIDENT through performances, recordings and Christina Jahn | SECRETARY workshops. Tom Mirhady | TREASURER Rod McKay | DIRECTOR The choir has two recordings to their name, the most recent is The Far West Meghan Goguen | GENERAL released in May 2016. Joshua Kosman of MANAGER the San Francisco Chronicle wrote, “beautifully sung, as everything here is, by the aptly named Luminous Voices under Timothy Shantz.” The Far West is the winner of the 2018 National Choral Award for Outstanding Choral Recording and 2016 National Choral “NO CHOIR CAN ACHIEVE THIS LEVEL OF Award for Outstanding Choral EXCELLENCE IN SUCH DIFFICULT MUSIC Composition from Choral Canada. The WITHOUT FINE SINGERS AND A first recording, Mendelssohn’s TeDeum CONDUCTOR OF TALENT AND ADVANCED released in March 2015 was the winner MUSICAL CAPABILITY. AND THIS of the 2016 Choral Canada award for LATTER ROLE LUMINOUS VOICES HAS Outstanding Choral Recording. WITH TIMOTHY SHANTZ.” Luminous Voices illuminates Kenneth DeLong, Calgary Herald exceptional choral music of the past and present while supporting contemporary composers by commissioning new works. www.luminousvoices.com TIMOTHY SHANTZ Founder and Artistic Director Timothy Shantz brings a wealth of expertise and artistry to his roles as Chorus Master, Conductor and Artistic Director. He is an experienced conductor, collaborator, and tenor soloist. He is the Chorus Master for the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Founder and Artistic Director of Luminous Voices and served as Artistic Director of Spiritus Chamber Choir during a very successful period with the choir. In 2019, Timothy Shantz joins the Department of Music at The University of Alberta as an Associate Professor. As a conductor, Shantz is recognized for his work Timothy Shantz has several recordings to in early-music, contemporary works, and his name, including Zachary Wadsworth’s virtuoso unaccompanied choral music, as well as The Far West (2016) of which Joshua large choral-orchestral masterpieces. Kenneth Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle DeLong of the Calgary Herald wrote, “It is hard wrote “beautifully sung, as everything here to believe that it has been a full decade since is, by the aptly named Luminous Voices Timothy Shantz became the chorus master of under Timothy Shantz.” “The Far West“ was the CPO Chorus. During this decade, Shantz, awarded the 2018 National Choral Award always energetic and full of initiative, has for Outstanding Choral Recording and 2016 transformed the choral life of the city.” Under his National Choral Award for Outstanding direction, Spiritus Chamber Choir earned the Choral Composition from Choral Canada. Healey Willan Grand Prize from the Canada The choir’s first recording, “Mendelssohn’s Council in 2017 and 2013 and has toured Te Deum” earned the 2016 Choral Canada internationally, earning second prize at the award for Outstanding Choral Recording. Fleischmann International Choral Competition Other recordings include, James in Cork, Ireland as well as second prize at the MacMillan's Seven Last Words (Spring Florilège Vocal de Tours in France. 2014), All the Stars Looked Down (2012) and Of Stars and Solitude (2010) with Spiritus Shantz's preparation of choruses for major Chamber Choir. Performance highlights as orchestral works has been equally successful. He tenor include Händel's Messiah at Carnegie has collaborated with conductors Rune Hall, soloist and ensemble singer at the Bergmann, Christoph König, Matthew Halls, Carmel Bach Festival (2008-2016) and twice Paul Hillier, James MacMillan, Nicholas with the Lucerne Festival Academy under McGegan, Roberto Minczuk, John Morris Russell, the direction of Pierre Boulez. Yoav Talmi, Ivars Tuarins and Jean-Marie Zeitouni among others. He has also performed Shantz holds a Doctor of Music degree in as tenor in under the direction of Pierre Boulez, Choral Conducting from Indiana University Frieder Bernius, Paul Goodwin, Paul Hillier, Jacobs School of Music with a dissertation Andrew Megill, John Poole, Leonard Ratzlaff, analyzing the unaccompanied choral work Daniel Reuss, Robert Shaw, Richard Sparks, Jon Sun-Dogs by composer James MacMillan. Washburn and Bruno Weil. Program To See a World Sven-David Sandström (1942-2019) Recorded Saturday, October 3, 2020 St. Laurence Anglican Church, Calgary Ein Deutsches Requiem Johannes Brahms IV - Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen (1833-1897) Heather Schmidt, piano Live performance recording Sunday, February 12, 2017 Bella Concert Hall, Calgary And the swallow (Psalm 84) Caroline Shaw (b. 1982) Recorded Saturday, October 3, 2020 St. Laurence Anglican Church, Calgary Ein Deutsches Requiem Johannes Brahms VII - Selig sind die Toten Cheryl Emery, piano Recorded Saturday, October 3, 2020 St. Laurence Anglican Church, Calgary In Canadian Woods (2017) Heather Schmidt* (b. 1974) Katie Partridge, soprano Heather Schmidt, piano Live performance recording Sunday, February 12, 2017 Bella Concert Hall, Calgary O Schöne Nacht Johannes Brahms Cheryl Emery, piano Recorded Saturday, October 3, 2020 St. Laurence Anglican Church, Calgary If Ye Love Me Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) Recorded Saturday, October 3, 2020 St. Laurence Anglican Church, Calgary *Canadian Composer Luminous Voices Saturday, October 3, 2020 Soprano Alto Tenor Bass Julie Crouch Julie Freedman- Boyd Graeme Climie Kathleen Smith Hansen Dave Latos Warke Julia Millen Oliver Munar Wes Nickel Sara Staples Jason Ragan Cheryl Emery, piano Paul Chirka, audio Mark Riddle, video Deluxe Design Group (DDG) Special thanks to: St. Laurence Anglican Church for the use of the space for distanced recording and rehearsals Sunday, February 12, 2017 Soprano Alto Tenor Bass Julie Crouch Aoife Bonaventura Bill Hamm Roderick Bryce Christina Jahn Julie Freedman- Boyd Hansen Paul Grindlay Jolaine Kerley Smith Stuart MacQuarrie Bryan Hryciw Benila Ninan Julia Millen Oliver Munar Dave Latos Katie Partridge Meghan Prescott Caleb Nelson Wes Nickel Kathleen Sara Staples Rod Olson Jordan Van Biert Warke Patricia Thompson Heather Schmidt, piano Mark Ellestad, audio Mark Riddle, video Deluxe Design Group (DDG) Texts & Translations To See A World Text: William Blake To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. Ein Deutsches Requiem (Mvmt IV) Text: Psalm 84: 1,2,4 Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, How lovely are thy dwelling places, O Herr Zebaoth! Lord of Hosts! Meine Seele verlanget und sehnet sich My soul requires and yearns for the nach den Vorhöfen des Herrn; courts of the Lord; mein Leib und Seele freuen sich in My body and soul rejoice in the living dem lebendigen Gott. God. Wohl denen, die in deinem Hause How lovely are thy dwelling places, O wohnen, Lord of Hosts! die loben dich immerdar! Blessed are they that dwell in thy house; they praise you forever. How lovely are thy dwelling places! and the swallow (psalm 84) Text: excerpts from Psalm 84 How beloved is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts, My soul yearns, faints; my heart and my flesh cry out. The sparrow found a house, and the swallow her nest, Where she may raise her young. They pass through the valley of Bakka, they make it a place of springs, the autumn rains also cover it with pools. Ein Deutsches Requiem (Mvmt VII) Text: Revelation 14:13 Selig sind die Toten, Blessed are the dead die in dem Herrn sterben, von nun an. which die in the Lord from henceforth. Ja, der Geist spricht, Yea, says the Spirit, daß sie ruhen von ihrer Arbeit; that they may rest from their labors; denn ihre Werke folgen ihnen nach. and their works do follow them. In Canadian Woods Text Selections from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie and The Backwoods of Canada by Catherine Parr Traill Across the wide and stormy sea To trace our foaming track, And know the wave that heaves us on Will never bear us back? From the cedar swamp the gaunt wolves howl, From the oak loud whoops the felon owl; Our fate is seal’d! “Tis now in vain to sigh For home, or friends, or country left behind. Come, dry those tears, and lift the downcast eye The moan of the wind The deep stillness of the woods Of sunshine and shade, Of storm and calm. No painful regret No fearful misgiving Establish peace; the wilderness become. Can you in Canadian woods With me the harvest bind, Nor feel one lingering, sad regret For all you leave behind? Thy country shall be my country Thy people shall by my people Fire-flies illuminate the air with their brilliant dancing light Falling stars in mid-air As I sat in the wood in silence and in darkness, My thoughts wandered
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