Entries by Chris Simonite

Hooty, yappy, warm, bright: Camerata Nova in rehearsal for the WNMF

___________________________________________________________ Earlier today (January 7th) we had our second rehearsal of Meredith Monk’s music for our upcoming Winnipeg New Music Festival performance on January 30. What a delightful exploration the rehearsal was. Every page of music called for new vocal colours. How wonderful to have the freedom to venture outside the normal realm of choral […]

New Music Festival

We are very pleased to be invited back by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra to perform at the New Music Festival’s choral night on Monday, January 30, 2017 at Westminster United Church. We will once again be sharing the evening with Polycoro to present groundbreaking choral works, including several pieces by American composer Meredith Monk. An […]

A Euro Nova Christmas

___________________________________________________________ This year, the Camerata Nova Christmas concert is EuroNova and will be held at Crescent Fort Rouge United Church on November 26 and 27. Our 2016 holiday performance features lovely and unusual twentieth-century European Christmas carols, as well as a merging of old and new sounds from special guests, The Uncalled Four. I asked […]