Junior Piano
Marjorie Henry Scholarship
Josiah Schweitzer
Lillian Dickson Memorial Scholarship
Moinque Du Plesis
Junior
Instrumental
Mr.
& Mrs. Derry Simpson Scholarship
Sabrina Bauby
Senior
Instrumental
Carriere Family Scholarship
Nathan Lam
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.
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.
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.