We begin and end our season with two programs featuring composers whom I call “choral mystics.” The leading Canadian exponent of this is my friend Tim Corlis. His music is transparent, lush, evocative, energetic and deeply spiritual. It’s simply wonderful music for a choir to sing and for an audience to hear. We will be recording a selection of his compositions in September and October for the international recording label Naxos. You can attend a preview concert of this recording at St. Barnabas on the Danforth in Toronto on September 28 and the Basilica of Our Lady Immaculate in Guelph on September 29 in a program entitled Missa Pax: Choral Works by Timothy Corlis. 

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It’s hard to believe that Handel wrote his towering Messiah in only 21 days in 1741.  His spectacular musical journey is one that millions have grown to love and is a Christmas tradition for so many of us. Another December treat for the whole family is our concert of carols and songs entitled O Hear the Angel Voices.

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On Good Friday of 2025 we will perform one of J.S Bach’s  premiere works, The Passion According to St. John. It is a dramatic musical setting of theatrical brilliance that transports us to a world teeming with profound and complex emotions. Orchestra,  choir and soloists all come together in the acoustical and visual splendour of the Basilica of Our Lady Immaculate in Guelph. 

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In our final concert, we return to our mystical theme with Choral Mystics: Ancient & Modern Reflections that will feature some of the most moving and evocative choral compositions written over the centuries. 

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I look forward to seeing you at one or all of these memorable concerts.