An eclectic program featuring the Vaughan String Quartet and #connect

• The Tower and The Garden by Gregory Spears

• While We War Against Ourselves by Torbjörn Dyrud

• The Dying River by Victor Muzhchyl

• Sapiens by Laura Hawley

• When a Thought of War Comes by Marie-Claire Saindon

• Peace, I leave with you by Knut Nystedt

Misa by Ryan Cayabyab

The MISA (Mass) was premiered by the U.P. Concert Chorus under the direction of Prof. Rey Paguio during Ryan’s graduation recital in 1983.  

Ryan first published MISA in 1997, with Michael J. Mella as editor. Unfortunately, the 1997 publication was not based on the 1983 manuscript, which was in Cayabyab’s writing; and was nowhere to be found.

Fortunately, Ryan found the initial manuscript in 2001. While moving the bulk of his manuscripts (original compositions and arrangements) from his house to his former office at the San Miguel Foundation for the Performing Arts, the original handwritten “MISA” surfaced.

Missa Brevis in E-flat Major by Oliver Munar

This Missa Brevis is inspired by various composers whose works Oliver has been fortunate to have performed over the years. You’ll find echoes of the counterpoint of JS Bach, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Missae by both Josef Rheinberger and Frank Martin, and operatic motifs by W.A. Mozart, Georges Bizet and Giacomo Puccini.

The multi-year series with musical settings of the Latin Mass text.

• Misa by Ryan Cayabyab

• Missa Brevis in E Flat by Oliver Munar, world premiere

• Kyrie Eleison, from Indonesian Mass, by Ivan Yohan

We welcome conductor Jonathan Velasco from the Philippines to lead the choir in this unique program

Jonathan Velasco is a much sought-after choral conductor, clinician, and adjudicator in the world today.

Maestro Velasco and his choirs have won first prizes in major choral competitions in Europe. He currently conducts the Ateneo Chamber Singers. He regularly judges international choral competitions in Europe and Asia.

He was a member and assistant conductor of the World Youth Choir, becoming the first Asian conductor in 1996. He has since conducted this prestigious choir two more times, in the 2001 winter session and the 2018 summer session.

Velasco is a regular guest conductor of various orchestras in the Philippines and abroad. He has conducted the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, San Miguel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Manila Symphony Orchestra, the Manila Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Taiwan Youth Orchestra.

Velasco is the Philippine representative to the Interkultur World Choir Council. He was also elected as the first President of the Philippine Choral Directors Association in 2008.

The annual choral concert commemorating the Passion of Christ with works by Bach, Pärt, Gesualdo, Sandström, and Praulins, with Tammy-Jo Mortensen at the organ.

We welcome conductor Kari Turunen to lead this performance with the choir. Kari Turunen is the Artistic Director of the professional Vancouver Chamber Choir since 2019. Before moving to Vancouver, he was a versatile actor on the Finnish choral and vocal music scene.  

During his career in Finland, Dr. Turunen led, among others, Kampin Laulu chamber choir, Chorus Cantorum Finlandiae, Spira Ensemble and the professional early music ensembles Ensemble Petraloysio. As a singer, he was a founding member of Lumen Valo and sang over 250 concerts in Finland and Europe and recorded nine critically acclaimed CDs with the group. He has toured extensively with his ensembles and won numerous prizes with his choirs, both in national and international competitions.

One of choral history’s great treasures, the All-Night Vigil by Sergei Rachmaninoff, with guests Da Camera Singers (Laura Hawley, conductor)

Celebrate the last night of 2022 with choral music and bubbles, and sing-along to Auld Lang Syne!

• Three Kings by Healey Willan

• Sprüche by Felix Mendelssohn

• Santiago, from Path of Miracles, by Joby Talbot

• Ye Shall Have A Song by Randall Thompson

• Evening Morning Day by David Lang

• Ave Maria by Franz Biebl

Please note: The New Year’s Eve concert will not be livestreamed this season.

Get Ready for the Holidays 2022

Pro Coro Canada’s annual performance of the Pulitzer Prize winning work by David Lang. A meditative, candle-lit event during Advent.

• Dawn Bailey, soprano, sleighbells

• Adrienne Sitko, alto, crotales

• Ian Bannerman, tenor, glockenspiel

• Michael Kurschat, bass, bass drum & tubular bells

This is the choir’s Xmas Show for 2022!

Please note: The Little Match Girl will not be livestreamed this season.

In partnership with the University of Alberta Voice Department, this performance features faculty and current students:

• Jacqueline Hernandez, soprano

• Catherine Daniel, mezzo-soprano

• John Tessier, tenor

• Jin Yu, bass

With

• Matti Pulkki, accordion

• Jessica Robertson, piano

Pro Coro’s ensemble for emerging singers #connect will perform a varied program in several languages and styles, spanning 3 centuries of music on the theme of War and Peace.

• Soir de Neige by Francis Poulenc

• A Thought of War by Marie-Claire Saindon

• Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst by Rudolf Mauersberger

• Trois beaux oiseaux by Maurice Ravel

• Peace I leave with you by Knut Nystedt

• Verleih uns Frieden by Heinrich Schütz

• Stomp on the Fire by Andrea Ramsey

• Sapiens by Laura Hawley

• Mitten wir im Leben sind bei Felix Mendelssohn

Celebrate 10 years of artistic leadership of conductor Michael Zaugg with some all-time favourites.

• The Nightingale by Ugis Praulins

• Rain, Rush and Rosebush by Bo Holten

• There was a time by Cy Giacomin

• Absence by Laura Hawley

• I am small by Jane Berry

• a boy & a boy by Stuart Beatch, commissioned by Pro Coro Canada

With Matthias Maute, recorder