Katherine Duncan on CBC Radio

11/17/2024

JOB OPPORTUNITY: St. Catharines, ON – Chorus Niagara is seeking an Artistic Director to provide engaging leadership of the choral art starting in June of 2025. Deadline: January 6, 2025.

OFFRE D’EMPLOI : St. Catharines, Ont. – Chorus Niagara est à la recherche d'un•e directrice•teur artistique qui sera chargé de fournir une direction engageante de l'art choral à partir de juin 2025. Date limite : 6 janvier 2025.

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11/17/2024

Join us next Tuesday, November 19th for a special event with Vancouver Writers Fest! 🎶

Neuroscientist, musician, and bestselling author Daniel J. Levitin reveals how the deep connections between music and the human brain can be harnessed for healing in his extraordinary follow-up to This Is Your Brain on Music—which revolutionized our understanding of the neuroscience of song. Discover how music can create profound benefits for those both young and old, as Levitin sits down with André Picard on November 19th.

The conversation will be followed up by a performance by yours truly, Chor Leoni!

Limited tickets are still available: https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/daniel-levitin

We hope to see you there!

09/15/2024

As our singers gather together today for our annual start of season retreat, we want to reintroduce ourselves to you, our treasured community of friends, colleagues and supporters, as simply, Elektra. Our choir welcomes adult singers of all gender identities who sing in the treble range.

We invite you to check out our beautifully designed NEW WEBSITE (!), which reflects this change. We are so looking forward to singing for you later this fall!

https://elektra.ca/

06/02/2024

Thanks to Elektra I’m singing and running. If you’d like to help me reach my goal, I’ll be grateful for your support!

Second alto Katherine Duncan is our next fundraising team member we’d like to introduce! Katherine’s challenge this year is to run 5km in 30 minutes or less! Give her some love in the comments, and visit the link below to donate!

https://elektra.ca/participant/katherine-duncan/

05/29/2024

Support Elektra sin singers in their self-hosted fundraising challenge. 100% of donations you make will be coming directly to Elektra.

04/21/2024

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra program of 20th-century and contemporary works to feature Taiwanese violinist Paul Huang and the Elektra Women’s Choir

04/09/2024

Artistic director Erick Lichte says the move ties into choral singing as an act of empathy

04/09/2024

04/09/2024

Home from Paris and ready to sing!

Group is joined by Elektra Women’s Choir, EnChor, and the BC Girl’s Choir from Vancouver, plus Akademiska Sångföreningen from Finland

03/15/2022

This week on Choral Concert: a complete performance of Mozart's Requiem by the Swedish Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra. You'll also hear from the Choral Scholars of University College Dublin, the Vancouver Chamber Choir and the Kyiv Chamber Choir.

02/11/2022

The opera community is mourning the loss of Rose-Ellen Nichols, who died on Jan. 30 at the age of 41.

Nichols was a Coast Salish mezzo-soprano known for her roles in productions of Marie Clements and Brian Current’s Missing and Margaret Atwood’s Pauline. To CBC Music's Marion Newman, she was also a dear friend:

"Rose-Ellen was a successful Indigenous woman in the arts. She was openly proud of all of who she was and had a deep love and respect for her family. She sang with a gorgeous, deep voice, sometimes heart-wrenching and other times overflowing with joy — a voice that revealed her entire very real and down-to-earth personality. She was also one of the best humans I've had the honor to call a friend."

Hear Marion Newman's full tribute, including a performance from Nichols of "Mother's Aria" from Missing, on the next episode of Saturday Afternoon at the Opera — tune in tomorrow at 4:50 p.m. (5:20NT) at cbcmusic.ca/saato.

📷: City Opera Vancouver

09/16/2021

Proud to be the Executive Producer of this terrific classical music show on CBC. Tune in for this truly extraordinary Canadian concert experience this Sunday. The show airs 11am-3pm across the country -- pick your time zone and stream it online via CBC Listen.