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2010 National Choral Awards
Outstanding Choral Recording
DaCapo Chamber Choir
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Chestnut
Hall Music
is thrilled to announce that the DaCapo Chamber Choir has won the
"Outstanding Choral Recording" award from the Association of Canadian
Choral Communities 2010 National Choral Awards.
The Association of Canadian Choral Communities (ACCC) is Canada's only
non-profit professional service organization for choral musicians and
administrators and it provides a national voice for over 600
conductors, 38,000 singers, as well as choral composers, publishers and
administrators.
The award ceremony was held in Saskatoon on May 22, 2010 at a gala
event recorded and broadcast nationally by CBC Radio and Espace Musique.
Recognition was given to the production team as well, Earl McCluskie, producer and Ed Marshall, engineer.
Congratulations, DaCapo!
2010 Juno
Award
Nominee
Classical
Composition of the Year |
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LEONARD ENNS
Nocturne
Chestnut
Hall Music
is pleased to announce that Leonard Enns was nominated in the 2010 Juno
competition for
Classical Composition of the Year for his choral composition
“Nocturne”, produced by Earl
McCluskie for the DaCapo Chamber Choir and released on their ShadowLand
CD in November 2010.
Commissioned by the Guelph Springs Festival through the support of the
Ontario Arts Council, Nocturne was premiered by the DaCapo Chamber
Choir in 2005.
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An
Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, Enns has produced a
significant body of compositions ranging from works for solo piano to
full choral/orchestral forces. Recent premieres of his choral works
include Te Deum Brevis in Kyoto, Japan at the 2005 World
Choral
Symposium; and, also in 2005, Sparrow at Festival 500 in Newfoundland.
In 2007 he was named the International Winner of the Polyphonus choral
composition competition in Seattle, Washington. |
.For more information about Leonard Enns, go to www.lenns.ca
2009 Juno
Award
Nominee
Classical
Composition of the Year |
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TIMOTHY
CORLIS
Notes
Towards A Poem That Can Never Be Written
Chestnut
Hall Music
Timothy
Corlis was nominated in the 2009 Juno competition for
Classical Composition of the Year for his “Notes Towards a
Poem
That Can Never Be Written”, engineered and produced by Earl
McCluskie and released on the Chestnut Hall Music label.
Commissioned
by the DaCapo Chamber Choir with the assistance of the Ontario Arts
Council, Notes Towards A Poem That Can Never Be Written is a large
scale choral work based on the poem by Margaret Atwood.
For information about the music and the recording session, go
to Music Samples.
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The music of Timothy Corlis emerges from a choral
tradition
where
composition is all about singing in the community. He began his career
as a music director at Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church where he
enjoyed writing for church and community choirs in Waterloo region.
His
music has since received performances and broadcasts across North
America, by some of Canada's most prominent performers such as Roman
Borys and Annalee Patipatanakoon (Gryphon Trio), Scott St. John (St.
Lawrence String Quartet), and Jerzy Kaplanek and Simon Fryer
(Penderecki String Quartet). Corlis' music has been described as
"atmospherically striking," "bursting with vigour and truth," and
received a five star review from CBC's Rick Phillips. |
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