Results of 2014 Grants Competition • Call for new applications Newsletter #2 Autumn 2015 Contents • New Director Appointed to the BCECM ....................................................1 • Results of 2014 Grants Competition .........................................2 • 2015 Community Project and Research Project Grants ..................2 • NEW GRANT PROGRAM for Professional Development! ............2 • Rajaton returns to St. John’s ...........3 • Pan-Labrador and Newfoundland Youth Choir 2014 ................................4 New Director Appointed to the BCECM • Choral Conducting Student Attends ACDA 2015 The BCECM is pleased to announce that in Prague. A native of the Czech Republic, National Conference .........................5 Dr. Jakub Martinec has been appointed Martinec has recorded for national TV • Spectrum heads for a three-year term as the Director of and radio in the Czech Republic and has to OUTShine 2015 ..............................5 the BCECM. directed on numerous CDs and DVDs. His • The Board of the Bruneau recording of Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols Dr. Martinec is the Assistant Professor Centre for Excellence in Choral received a 2004 Recording of the Month of Choral Conducting and Director of Music & contact information ..........5 Award by the London-based Classical Choirs at Memorial University’s School Music Web. of Music. His research focuses on choral conducting, performance revival of early Since joining the School of Music in Czech choral literature, and pedagogical 2013, Dr. Martinec has continued to be Thank you! practices for teaching adolescent male active as a guest clinician, adjudicator singers. and presenter at prestigious international choral events, including the Cornwall The BCECM Board and staf extend As a renowed choral conductor and the Male Choral Festival, UK (2013); our sincere thanks to Dr. Douglas founding artistic director and former Pemulwuy, Australia (2014); Podium, Dunsmore and Dr. Ellen Waterman conductor of the famous Czech Boys Canada (2014); the European Festival who recently completed their terms Choir, Martinec has performed with of Youth Choirs “Giuseppe Zelioli”, Italy as BCECM Director and Dean of the eminent orchestras, ensembles and (2014); ChoralFest Calgary, Canada (2015); School of Music, respectively. Dr. musical personalities in some of the and RIME – Research in Music Education Dunsmore and Dr. Waterman have world’s most famous concert halls and Conference, UK (2013, 2015). worked tirelessly to ensure the sound cathedrals, including Meistersingerhalle, stewardship of the choral centre, the Nürnberg (Germany); Winspear Hall We look forward to working with Dr. success of Board-initiated projects, and (Edmonton); the Pantheon and the Martinec and rolling out new ideas and the promotion of choral music across Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore (Rome); projects over the coming year. the province. We wish them the very and he has performed regularly at the best in their future endeavours! Rudolfnum Dvorak Hall and Smetana Hall Memorial University of Newfoundland 1 Bruneau Centre for Excellence in Choral Music Results of 2014 Grants Competition We were thrilled to receive many exciting proposals for research and community projects from across the province. The BCECM is proud to have supported 10 projects in total, and we look forward to more application submissions for 2015. Community Project Highlights The community of Churchill Falls, Labrador, held a successful choral symposium 2015 Community in February 2015. The event involved four Churchill Falls school and community choirs that participated in workshops, rehearsals, and a fnal concert with clinicians Project and Kellie Walsh, Jennifer Hart, and Michelle Chippett. Research Project Grants The deadline to submit applications for the 2015 grant competition is OCTOBER 15th, 2015. Please visit the BCECM website for more information. Conductor Kellie Walsh rehearses with members of Fortissimo! Women’s Choir at the Churchill Falls Choral Symposium. Photo courtesy of Kerri MacPhee. Lady Cove Women’s Choir commissioned Jonathan Monro to compose a choral theatre work, entitled No Matter What. Directed by Danielle Irvine, the work premiered in April 2015. Lady Cove is the frst choir in the country to commission a full-length choral work incorporating all newly composed music with a through- NEW GRANT conceived story, and presented in the style of a theatre work with props, staging, PROGRAM for lighting, and movement for all members of the choir. Professional Development! In addition to the annual BCECM project grant competition, the BCECM Professional Development Fund is now available to students and choral musicians, particularly those working with community-based choirs, who are invited to take part in activities that Photo courtesy will enhance their choral skills, such as of Paul Daley. presentations or study/training. The BCECM will accept applications for activities up to $1500. The application Event planning, workshops, and rehearsals are underway by the Potluck Singers deadlines are October 15, 2015 and (NL Christmas songs), St. John’s Native Friendship Centre (Collaboration of May 15, 2016. Please see the BCECM Aboriginal Artists Showcase), St. David’s Church (Choral Scholars), and Atlantic website for more information. Light Theatre (“A Call to Arms”) toward their project goals. 2 Memorial University of Newfoundland Bruneau Centre for Excellence in Choral Music Research Project Highlights An International Symposium on Singing Carolyn Chong and Chris Tonelli and Song, organized by The Singing undertook research with the Stella Dr. Tom Gordon’s CD recording Network, will take place October Burry Inclusion Choir and on project of Inuktitut arias is in nearing 1-4, 2015, and afliated projects are extranormal vocality, respectively, this completion and we can look forward underway. summer. to hearing it in the coming months. The CD features works sung by Inuit soloists Karrie Obed and Deantha Edmunds-Ramsay in collaboration with the Innismara Vocal Ensemble and the Suncor Energy Quartet. Inuit soloists Deantha Edmunds-Ramsay and Dr. Tom Gordon. Karrie Obed. Photo by today.mun.ca. Photo by Rich Blenkinsopp. Rajaton concert co-organizers: Rajaton returns to St. John’s The BCECM was pleased to support a new partnership between Cantus Vocum Chamber Choir and Growing The Voices: Festival 500, formed in spring 2015, that seeks to bring renowned vocal ensembles to perform and teach in Newfoundland. This year, the partnership realized the return of the acclaimed Finnish a cappella ensemble Rajaton to St. John’s. Following a stunning gala choral concert on May 26, Rajaton led a high school choral workshop for 255 choristers and their choir conductors in the D. F. Cook Concert Hall at MUN. Participating choirs included Prince of Wales Collegiate Chamber Choir (Terry Howlett), Carbonear Collegiate (Anne Whelan), Holy Heart Chamber Choir (Robert Colbourne), Quintessential Vocal Ensemble (Susan Quinn) and Shallaway (Kellie Walsh). Congratulations to all on the success of these events! Susan Knight Chad M. Stride Memorial University of Newfoundland 3 Bruneau Centre for Excellence in Choral Music Pan-Labrador and Newfoundland Youth Choir 2014 On October 23rd, 2014, 122 students young choral singers and their teachers Me a Little Water, Silvy”, and Zulu and from grades 6 to 12 and their teachers together from across the province. traditional Oshivambo songs, among from all over the province, including Over the course of three days, students other choral favourites. Little Heart’s Ease, Corner Brook, St. developed their vocal technique John’s, Clarenville, Eastport, Mobile, and listening skills, learned concepts Please visit the BCECM website to watch Grand Bank, Placentia, Makkovik, of leadership and cooperation, some rehearsal clips and the video of Rigolet, Nain, Northwest River, shared their stories about their local the fnal gala concert. Hopedale, and Happy Valley Goose communities and experiences, and Bay met in Goose Bay, Labrador, to learned about their own and each The Bruneau Centre for Excellence form the inaugural Pan-Labrador and other’s cultural traditions, as well as in Choral Music thanks its many Newfoundland Youth Choir. other international choral traditions. partners in this project, including the Newfoundland and Labrador English Piggy-backing on the Pan-Labrador Conductor Kellie Walsh, the students School District, Cultural Connections, Youth Choir project that has been and their teachers were joined by the Nunatsiavut government, Memorial growing over the past seven years Inuit elders, singer-songwriter Kat University’s School of Music, and through the Labrador School Board, McLevey and CBC national radio host Provincial Airlines, as well as the under the artistic direction of choral and musician Tom Power to rehearse schools, parents, and local hosts who conductor Kellie Walsh and Dr. Douglas and present a special Gala Concert helped make the project such a success. Dunsmore, the Bruneau Centre for at the Lawrence O’Brien Arts Centre. Excellence in Choral Music was thrilled The concert featured arrangements Qujannamiik! to support this exciting collaborative of Sid Dicker’s “Labradorimut/Sons of initiative to bring this special group of Labrador”, Leadbelly’s classic “Bring 4 Memorial University of Newfoundland Bruneau Centre for Excellence in Choral Music Support for young conductors Choral Conducting to professionalism and leadership in Choral Conducting. Both in preparation Student Attends for the