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Calling all Composers

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Last year I hit bottom….that is, the bottom of my living room floor with a heavy heap of music scores in my arms that kept landing in my mailbox. I was stunned that I was receiving music from across the continent. How incredibly exciting!

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After so many years the calls from composers were getting too loud to ignore anymore. So last year I decided to create a “Spring project”. It is a 6 week reading session with Cantala that ends with a recording session of the work(s) and a social.

This year we are looking to continue our spring project but are looking to spread our wings out to a wider audience of composers. If you are interested in having one of your treble choir compositions read and recorded by Cantala please read the guidelines below. We are ardent supporters of new work-especially Canadian work (but welcome everyone), and would really enjoy hearing from you.

We are especially looking for:

  • Acapella treble works.

  • Composers who are unpublished and have never had their work performed or recorded.

OR

  • Composers who have a work that is under performed or not discovered (published or unpublished).

  • Music publishers that can provide us with free music scores in return for music they want recorded.

**If your work requires instrumentation (piano, violin, flute etc) the partial cost of covering the extra musicians will apply.

Please send all work that you would like to have looked at to nancy.singla@hotmail.com, or even better yet, in the mail. Send an email to Nancy and she will provide you an address.

Thank you and looking forward to seeing your submissions.

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The Beginning of our 12th Season

The beginning of our 12th Season at Cantala has begun! If you haven’t auditioned yet for Cantala please do be in touch. We are always interested in meeting new and talented singers and musicians. Between a Fall weekend retreat to Haliburton to Banff in February and Roy Thompson Hall in May-it will be an exhilarating year in Cantala. Come and sing with us!

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My music calendar is empty, how about yours?

This is the first time in 20+ years that I haven’t had a jam packed, stressful, busy, over the top musical calendar. I usually find myself running to watching a performance of the Nutcracker, then running downtown to take in the kids’ symphony Christmas concert, then singing a Messiah performance here or there, and of course keeping up with my own performance schedule: Church services and choral concerts.

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New Beginnings

Cantala Choir and I had our first in person rehearsal in two years in February 2022 and for so many reasons, it feels like a new beginning. For one, as I re enter the world of choral music and choral programming I feel I have many new ideas and perspectives. So consider this: what about changing “hundred of years-old sacred text” to a sacred text that is relevant to our human society today? Radical idea? Read on.

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A look forward to Spring 2024

This spring we will be learning Canadian Folk songs. I was inspired recently by the work titled Woodsmoke and Oranges (Tamblyn). (Psst…. For those that know me, don’t be surprised to also anticipate other pieces that are not Canadian folk as well).

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Spring Concert-SongBird

We are truly lucky to have such a diverse cultural landscape in Canada. From the Indigenous peoples, to the settlers and now immigrants from every part of the globe, Canada is a place where there is such variety in our food, entertainment and social circles that one cannot but rejoice and celebrate Canada.

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