2011 – 2012
December 22, 2012. Family Christmas Carol Sing-Along Concert
Featuring:
Michael Molnar, Organist
VancouverVoicesYouth
St. Helen’s Church Choir
St. Helen’s Anglican Church
8th and Trimble
Vancouver
7:00 pm
Admission at the door: $20/$15 or $45/family or by donation
Children under 5 free
November 11, 2012. Remembrance A Musical Meditation
JS Bach, Goldberg Variations with Tian Yu-Zhou, piano
Maurice Durfle, Requiem with VancouverVoices and VancouverVoicesYouth directed by Peter Butterfield
Donations welcome in support of “Sharing the Spirit” Centennial Fund
St. Helen’s Anglican Church
8th and Trimble
Vancouver
2:30 pm
October 28, 2012, Sunday. J.S. Bach B minor Mass
A setting of the Latin mass that has been called the summation of Bach’s life both musically and spiritually.
Soloists: Anne Grimm, Sarah Fryer, Benjamin Butterfield, Nathaniel Watson
With Victoria Philharmonic Choir, VancouverVoices Youth & orchestra.
Read about this concert at the Chan Centre Website.
Tickets : www.Ticketmaster.ca or 1-855-985-5000
Presented in partnership with the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.
This performance is made possible with support of the Chan Endowment.
Chan Center for Performing Arts
3:00pm
June 9, 2012, Saturday. J.S. Bach B minor Mass
A setting of the Latin mass that has been called the summation of Bach’s life both musically and spiritually.
Soloists: Anne Grimm (Soprano), Sarah Fryer (Mezzo Soprano), Benjamin Butterfield (Tenor) and Nathaniel Watson (Bass).
Tickets: $30 adult, $15 student, and free for accompanied children 12 & under. Tickets will be available early in May for this June 9 performance.
First Metropolitan United Church
Victoria
8:00 pm
May 5, 2012. Spring Concert featuring VancouverVoices Youth
Some Monteverdi, some Willan and some lighter spring fare featuring VancouverVoices Youth – join us after the concert for a silent auction and refreshments (chocolate anyone?)
St. Helen’s Church
4405 W 8th Ave @ Trimble
7:30 pm
Tickets at the door $25/20 or $50/family
Dec 17, 2011. Family Christmas Carol Sing Along
St. Helen’s Church
4405 West 8th Avenue
Vancouver
Tickets
At the door: $25/$20 or $45/family.
Children under 5 free.
7:00 pm
November 19, 2011. Voices Echoing
Music by C.V. Stanford and Herbert Howells, with Duruflé’s Requiem.
Michael Molnar, organist.
Holy Rosary Cathederal
646 Richards Street at Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver
Watch YouTube excerpts from the concert.
Past Concerts
2010 – 2011
June 11, 2011
Summer Concert
St. Helen’s Church
4405 West 8th Avenue
Vancouver
7:00pm
Tickets
At the door: $25/$20 or $45/family.
Children under 5 free.
April 21, 2011
JS Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion
The St. Matthew Passion is J.S. Bach’s most profound and moving work, dramatic, passionate, and lyrical. This performance, just before Easter weekend, 2011, will feature VancouverVoices, VancouverVoicesYouth and the Victoria Philharmonic Choir, as well as members of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. International soloists will include Stephen Varcoe (Christus), Benjamin Butterfield (Evangelist), Sarah Fryer (mezzo arias), Jennifer Farrell (soprano arias), Mark De Silva (tenor arias).
Presented in partnership with the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.
This performance is made possible with support of the Chan Endowment.
Chan Center for Performing Arts
7:00pm
Tickets
EarlyBird Tickets until February 15 $31.75
Regular Tickets: Adult $40; Student/Senior: $35
Children under 8 free
www.Ticketmaster.ca phone 604 280-3311
December 18, 2010
Family Christmas Carol Sing Along
Featuring:
Matthew Leighton, Treble Soloist
Michael Molnar, Organist
VancouverVoices Youth Choir
St. Helen’s Church Choir
St. Helen’s Church
4405 West 8th Avenue
Vancouver
7:00pm
Tickets
At the door: $25/$20 or $40/family; or by donation.
Children under 5 free.
November 13, 2010
Voices of Venice
Featuring Matthew Leighton, solo treble
Music of Monteverdi, Gabrieli and Mendelsohn’s “Hear My Prayer”
Holy Rosary Cathederal (646 Richards Street at Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver)
7:30pm
Tickets $25 and $20 at the door or at TicketsTonight.ca
2009 – 2010
November 14, 2009
Heavenly Voices
Louis Vierne, Organ Messe
Standford, Magnifcat and Nunc Dimittis In C
Britten, Rejoice In The Lamb
Howells, Like As The Hart
Bruckner, Ave Maria
With VancouverVoices Youth and Guest Organists Michael Molnar & David Poon
Holy Rosary Cathederal (646 Richards Street, Vancouver)
7:30pm
Tickets $25 at the door or at TicketsTonight.ca
December 19, 2009
Christmas Family Sing-along Concert
7pm St. Helen’s Anglican Church (8th & Trimble)
Admission by Donation
March 27, 2010
Victoria Philharmonic Choir
St. Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach
Soloists
John Arsenault, Michael Uloth, Sarah Fryer, Jennifer Farrel, Daniel Lichti
with VancouverVoices, VvYouth, Students of St. Michaels University School
and the Victoria Symphony Orchestra
St. Andrew’s Cathedral
Blanshard at View Street
Victoria, BC
7:00pm
Tickets from Munro’s Books, Ivy’s Cadboro Bay Books, Long & McQuade, Tanners
and members of the Victoria Philarmonic Choir
June 12, 2010
Summer Voices
Madrigals and More by Monteverdi, Morley, Sullivan
St. Helen’s Church
4405 West 8th Avenue
Vancouver, BC
8:00pm
TicketsTonight.ca or at the door: $20 & $25
2008 – 2009
July 24 & 25, 2009
Dido & Aeneas
Van Dusen Botanical Garden
Soloists: Sarah Fryer, Jennifer Farrell, Nathaniel Watson
7:00 pm.
Presented by VancouverVoices and Van Dusen Capital Campaign
Program to include Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks
Tickets $30 at Van Dusen or at TicketsTonight.ca
Bring a blanket and a picnic.
April 25, 2009
Bach: Mass in B Minor
Shaughnessy Heights United Church (1550 33rd Avenue West)
8:00 pm.
Tickets at the door.
December 22, 2008
Family Christmas Sing-along
St. Helen’s Church (4405 8th Avenue West, Point Grey)
7:00 pm
Tickets at the door.
November 22, 2008
Voices of Angels
Three Motets, op.38. C.V. Stanford (1852-1924)
Justorum Animae
Beati Quorum Via
Coelos Ascendit Hodie
Miserere mei (psalm 50). Gregorio Allegri (1582-1682)
Soloists: Ali Powell, Felix Butterfield, Matthew Hough, Sarah Fryer, Michael Mori
Prelude (organ, Michael Molnar). Edward Bairstow (1874-1946)
Agnus Dei (Adagio for strings). Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
O vos omnes. Pablo Casals (1876-1973)
Hymn to St. Cecilia. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Soloists: Jennifer Farrell, Matthew Hough, Eric Scwhartzhof, Dale Throness
Two Prayers of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Philip Moore (b.1943)
Prayers in time of distress.Soloist: Elizabeth Hodgson
Evening Prayers
Prelude-Choral et Allegro (#2 from Dix Pièces). Eugène Gigout (1844-1925)
Song for Athene. John Tavener (b.1944)
Nunc Dimittis. Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Tickets at the door.
2007 – 2008
July 18 and 19, 2008
Acis and Galatea
A concert-staged opera by G.F. Handel
Jennifer Farrell
Benjamin Butterfield
Nathanial Watson
Sarah Fryer
Rose Hegele
VanDusen Botanical Garden
7:00pm
Bring a blank and a picnic
In aid of the VanDusen Capital Campaign
Buy tickets online for this concert at TicketsTonight.ca.
Friday October 26, 2007
Mozart: Requiem (Chamber Version)
VancouverVoices Quartet:
Jennifer Farrell, Sarah Fryer, Peter Butterfield, Dale Throness
Kwantlen University College
Langley Campus Auditorium
20901 Langley Bypass
7:30 pm
Tickets: $20/$15; Students by donation.
Available at www.ticketweb.ca or phone 604 599-3315
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Duruflé: Requiem
Shaughnessy Heights United Church
1550 W 33rd Avenue, Vancouver
7:30 pm
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Duruflé: Requiem
St. Helen’s Church
4405 W 8th Avenue, Vancouver
3:00 pm
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Five Centuries of Christmas: Family Carol Sing-Along Concert
Saint Helen’s Church
4405 W 8th Avenue, Vancouver
7:00 pm
Friday, March 21, 2008
Bach: St. John Passion
Shaughnessy Heights United Church
1550 W 33rd Avenue, Vancouver
7:00 pm
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Spring Madrigals: (Point Grey Fiesta)
Saint Helen’s Church
4405 W 8th Avenue, Vancouver
7:00 pm
Programme
Sumer is icumen in Anon. 13th century old English
Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone John Farmer (circa 1580)
Of all the birds that I do know John Bartlet (circa 1607)
What is our life? Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
Now is the month of Maying Thomas Morley (circa 1580)
Come to the Fair Easthope Martin
Where’er you walk G.F. Handel
Lascia ch’io pianga G.F. Handel
Art thou troubled? G.F. Handel
Skye Boat Song Old Highland folksong
The Bumblebee Jean Berger
Intermission
La Sestina (5 short sections) Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1647)
Le Chant des Oyseaux Clement Janequin (circa 1472-circa 1560)
Dirait-on Rilke/Lauridsen
Danny Boy Arrangement King’s Singers
The Long Day Closes Arthur Sullivan
2006 – 2007
November 11, 2006
Stanford: Beati quorum via
Mendelssohn: Hear my Prayer
Michael Cohen (text Edna St. Vincent Millay: God’s World (World Premiere)
Fauré: Requiem
December 22, 2006
Family Carol Concert, with VancouverVoices Youth and special guests
March 21, 23, 2007
Happy Birthday Bach, with VancouverVoices Youth & special guests
June 16, 2007
Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610
Guests: Concerto Palatino (Milan)
June 18, 2007
Concerto Palatino: Early Treasures, Director: Bruce Dickey
2005 – 2006
November 11 and 12, 2005
Edward Thomas: from “Rain”
Poulenc, Priez pour
Poulenc, Flute
Alain, Litanies
Eli Wiesel: from “Address”
Cohen: from the Wall
John Donne: One Equal Music
Duruflé: Requiem
December 22, 2005
Family Coral Concert
March19 and 21, 2006
Bach Concert
Sonata in G Major
Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat Major
Italian Concerto in F Major
Handel: Dixit Dominus
June 18, 2006
Mozart Program with guests Sooke Philharmonic, directed by Norman Nelson
Peter Butterfield & Norman Nelson
Overture, Les Petits Riens, K. 299b
Ave Verum, K. 618
Flute Concerto No.2 in in D, K. 314
Concert Aria, Ch’io mi scordi di te, K. 505
Solemn Vespers , K. 339
2004 – 2005
November 11, 2004
Remembrance Day Concert
Mozart: Ave Verum
Michael Cohen: I Remember
Fauré, Requiem
December 22, 2004
Family Carol Concert
March 20 and 21, 2005
Happy Birthday to Bach
Lobet dem Herrn
Magnificat
Solo Cello Suites
Organ toccata and fugue
Flute concerto
June 18, 2005
Madrigals and Cream
2003 – 2004
October 3,2003
JS Bach, ‘Jesu meine Freude’ (Motet #3)
December 18, 2003
Family Carol Concert
March 9, 2004
Weill in Berlin, Weill on Broadway
June 2004, 2004
Spring in the Garden: Madrigals and Songs