News
New Faculty
The Academy is pleased to welcome following 2009-2010 new faculty
Voice - Megan Skidmore, B.Mus & M. M. MCGill University in voice performance. Further studies at the Wiener Meisterkurze in Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Franz Schubert Institut in Baden bei Wien.
Guitar - Ron Campbell. Guitartist and songwriter, Ron has spent 45 years as performer and teacher. As bandleader or sideman, he’s played with hundreds of great musicians.
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Powell River Youth Choir recently returned from a 10 day tour of Germany & Slovenia August 9-20, 2007.
In Slovenia the choir took part in a "Singing Week" organized by Europa Cantat - Europe's largest choral organization. The 20 singers from the Academy performed a program of European composers with Gary Graden of Sweden as well as their own program with their conductor Paul Cummings.
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Academy Chamber Choir toured Normandy from the 27th of April to the 1st May, 2007
Polyfollia and La Fugue & Cie welcomed the biggest choral festival in western Canada and the Powell River Academy Chamber Choir. Kathaumixw - Polyfollia : 7790 kms away, two teams who are mad about singing working to the same goal : to bring together people through choral singing.
The 20 amateur singers from the Powell River Academy Choir (British Columbia) are the professional and voluntary pillars of the international festival Kathaumixw (pronounced Ka-tao-miouuw – in the Indian Salish language « bringing together different peoples ») which brings together every two years choirs from the world over for one of the biggest choral festivals in Canada.At the same time, the vocal ensemble La Fugue et Compagnie unite twenty odd voluntary « pillars » from Polyfollia, which organizes every two years the Festival Market Place of Choral Singing, alternating with the Summer Festival for those mad about Choral Singing (this year, from 30th June to 15th July) in Basse Normandy.They had the idea to meet up in order to exchange their methods, programs, organization… but also to sing together.Three towns, partners in the Polyfollia network are associated with this international choral exchange with 3 Franco-Canadian concerts
Saturday 28th April Vimoutiers (61) : 21h - Salle Armontel Monday 30th April Saint Hilaire du Harcouët (50) : 20h45 - Cinéma Le Rex
Tuesday 1st May Louvigny (14) : 17h Church / sacred concert , then 19h Salle des fêtes / secular concert, sung apéritif with the C.D.D. (Chœur à Durée Déterminée) from Louvigny, picnic together and an evening of traditional dances (you can come to the concert and/or the picnic – bring your own basket)
The program included : French music— from the Renaissance to today. Canadian music —« spirituals » to light music, including a new work by Tobin Stokes Vox Inuit - an astonishing adaptation of Shamanic incantations from the Inuit Peoples of the northern Canada.
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Chor Musica Men's Choir participated in the Third British International Male Voice Choral Festival Truro - Cornwall - UK 3 - 7 May 2007.
This third International Festival was centered on the very attractive Cathedral county town of Truro, but all choirs involved in the Festival performed in other Cornish Towns and venues. The festivals was a resounding successes with 60 choirs and over 3,000 singers taking part in 32 concerts and events in 26 different venues. The press reported after the first Festival that the Festival exceeded everyone’s expectations and was triumph for the organizer's audience attendance and the friendship between choirs has been marvellous: practically every concert has been packed out.
Chor Musica premiered two new compositions by Tobin Stokes to the enthusiastic response of audiences. The choir performed in Truro, Saint Agnes, Helston, Saltash and in the Eden Project. The festival aims to bring male voice choirs from outside Cornwall together to join with Cornish choirs in a spirit of musical friendship and song.