About cHm | Our Projects

Follow this link to hear samples of some of our recent projects.

Projects by Chestnut Hall Music include:
 

• The Region of Waterloo Virtual Performing Arts Festival, a video streaming website featuring performing arts ensembles from the Waterloo region.

• Laurel Swinden, a CD recording of flute repertoire by women composers

• Jublilation Male Choir, a CD recording of male chorus singing

• Raven and the First Men, a music video featuring the music of Timothy Corlis, performed by the New Zealand String Quartet and James campbell, clarinet

• CanadaStreams.ca, a video streaming website featuring performing arts ensembles and musicans form Canada.

• A Dream Within A Dream

A music video featuring the choral music of Victor Mio. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD06B6DC8B85878FB

• Tempi con variazioni

A PRIX OPUS 2010 winning recording with Montreal composer/jazz violinist Helmut Lipsky and Melosphere with special guest Suzie LeBlanc, soprano, and featuring musicians Alex Weimann, piano/keys, Jean François Martel, bass, Christopher Norman, flute, Pierre Tanguay, percussion and David Hall, organ.  The music spans four centuries of styles.

Dialog A CD with Polish guitar duo Andrzej and Grzegorz Krawiec, featuring music by Chopin, Granados, Rodrigo and Polish composers. Chopin, the most celebrated pianist of any age, said, "Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly, two."  Andrzej and Grzegorz perform works originally written for guitar-duo as well as their own transcriptions.

• St John's Lutheran 175th Anniversary a CD recording

• A Hero's Journey, a multi-media "virtual concert" with Chestnut Hall Camerata, that utilized streaming video technology in a real-time performance collaboration.
• Kathryn Ladano, a CD recording of bass clarinet improvisations
• DaCapo Chamber Choir,  ShadowLand, a second CD recording with dirrector Leonard Enns, and featuring works by Enns, Whitacre and a world-premiere by R.Murray Schafer
• Greensleaves Early Music Consort, a third CD recording, featuring 17th century Polish "popular" music
• Sandra Mogensen, The Piano Music of Grieg, Volume II
• Portuguese Heritage Band Project, a second CD project
• Conrad Grebel Chapel Choir, another CD project
• New Apostolic Church, a CD project
• Waterloo Region Choral Composers Circle
  
  

  Interactive concert on September 27, 2008 a unique event patterned on the popular singer songwriter circles featured the choral music of Glenn Buhr, Barrie Cabena, Leonard Enns, Jeff Enns, Michael Purves-Smith and Carol Ann Weaver. more...

  
  
• Contrasts in Love: The Music of Michael Purves-Smith

• IN CONCERT - Helmut Lipsky and Suzie LeBlanc
  

	Tempi con variazioni: Concert Tour 2008:  World Wind Energy Conference, Kingston, Ontario; Kingston Cathedral, Kingston, Ontario; and Quebec City 400 Year Celebration, L'Anglican de Lévis, (Quebec City). Early music soprano Suzie LeBlanc and violinist/composer Helmut Lispsky join forces to present a unique blend of classical, world and jazz, with a touch of tango. more...
	Tempi con variazioni: Espace Musique, CBC Radio-Canada:  Co-production of live concert, broadcast on Radio-Canada Espace Musique, March 2006.

• Notes Towards 
  

The choral and instrumental music of Tim Corlis with Ben Bolt-Martin, Margaret Atwood, DaCapo Chamber Choir and featuring the Juno nominated Notes Towards a Poem That Can Never Be Written. An artistically engaging and emotionally moving album. The stated aim of the recording project is "to speak out against the injustices of our modern world in a way that is uniquely possible through music and poetry." It's a lofty but necessary goal in these troubling times. All I can say is mission accomplished.” (Robert Reid, The Record) more...

• The Guelph Symphony Orchestra (with Todd Yaniw, piano)

CD release Northern Lights, featuring music of Sibelius, Rimsky-Korsakov and Grieg, with Todd Yaniw, piano soloist, Simon Irving, conductor.  Recorded live at the River Run Centre, February 17, 2008.  "Their music was inspired by a celebration of the landscapes of their native countries, Finland and Russia. It was a glorious tribute, which was executed beautifully and elegantly by our Guelph Symphony Orchestra."

• Sandra Mogensen (2007)
  

The Piano Music of Edward Grieg, (recorded at the Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto). A celebration of the centenary of this great Norwegian composer (1843-1907). "Beautiful repertoire, played with great care and insight by a remarkable pianist".

• Synergy, a CD recording featuring the Synergy Handbell Choir
• Stand By Me (2007),  music of Stephen M. Lee (Loyola University, New Orleans), with Trinity United Church choir, and Kitchener Church of God,  director Alan C. Whitmore
• A Grand Christmas (2007),  Grand River Chorus, conductor Richard Cunningham
• Pieces (2007), Rockway Mennonite School, a CD featuring the music program, director Ann Schultz
• Bandida Filharmonica (2007), wind ensemble music from the Portugese tradition, (River Run Centre, Guelph).
• Gerald King (2006), tenor, Schubert's Winterreise
• Todd Yaniw (2006), pianist, winner of the 2005 Toronto Symphony Concerto Competition
• L’Académie Baroque de Montréal, (June 2006) inaugral performance as part of the Montreal Baroque Festival, under the artistic direction of Suzie LeBlanc and Alex Weimann. 
• Kevin Ramessar, (June 2006) classical guitarist, with a CD recording Sojourn
• Srinakharinwirot University Wind Orchestra, Bangkok, Thailand, (April 2006) a CD to honour the 50th birthday celebrations for Her Royal Majesty Princess Maha Chakri Srindhorn
• Windjammers: Seems Like Old Times, live at the Centre in the Square (April 2006)
• Evening and Morning: the Sixth Day, (August 2005) music for boy soprano Timothy Lanigan with guest performers on cello, guitar, piano, organ, horn and handbell choir
• Pie Jesu: Songs of Intimacy, music that is a gentle expression of love and its language of the deepest longing of the heart: intimacy.
• Like a Child (2004),  music of Dan Damon (San Diego, California), with Trinity United Church choir, Kevin Muir, bass, Steve Montogmery, drums,  director Alan C. Whitmore
• Music of Waterloo, a CD sampler highlighting the choirs, orchestras and bands of the Waterloo region.
  
• A Gift of Christmas Past, Greensleaves, an early music consort,  featuring Christmas music from around the world 
• DaCapo Chamber Choir,  music by Canadian and international composers such as Barber, Gorecki, Enns, and Kverno
  
• The Wellington Winds, with a CD of new music for wind ensemble by Canadian composers, distributed through the Canadian Music Centre