Elektra Women's Choir

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Elektra has launched its 36th season! Head to the link in our bio to read more about this year’s concerts - we can’t wait to share this music with you!

Elektra Women's Choir updated their information in their About section.

Elektra Women's Choir updated their website address.

Was this performance really five years ago!?

WSCM11 July 27, 2017 ELEKTRA WOMEN'S CHOIR (Canada) 11th WORLD SYMPOSIUM ON CHORAL MUSICBarcelona, July 2017Palau de la Música CatalanaJuly 27, 2017ELEKTRA WOMEN'S CHOIR(Vancouver CANADA)Morna Edmundson, condu...

Interested in joining Elektra? We’re holding auditions next month. Visit the link below for information and to sign-up!

Auditions – Elektra Women's Choir Auditions Next offered: Tuesday, August 23, 2022 (6pm – 8pm) Monday, September 12, 2022 (5:30pm – 6:30pm) Interested in joining Elektra Women’s Choir? We are always looking for highly experienced and skilled, classically-based sopranos and altos. Please listen to our recordings if you are cons...

Elektra is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of our long-time friend and honorary patron, Maestro Bramwell Tovey. Our many interactions with him in VSO concerts and performances of his “Songs of Envious Time” will be cherished memories for us. He will be remembered not only for his superb musicianship but for his enthusiasm for a thriving musical community. Rest well and thanks, Bramwell.

We’re so thrilled to see Candace Halls-Howcroft’s poem from Snewíyalh tl’a Staḵw (Teachings of the Water) included in this article! Be sure to check our the works of all the poets mentioned!

Indigenous Brilliance Is Everywhere | The Tyee Get to know these local poets. They’re changing the world.

A well deserved post race brunch! You can still donate to our team into July!

https://raceroster.com/events/2022/55315/2022-vancouver-half-marathon/pledge/team/386760?fs=e&s=cl

Congratulations to our 5K team members who ran the in-person event today, and those who ran virtual ones earlier this month!

We are so so proud of Elisabeth and Grace, who both came FIRST in their age categories in this morning’s 5K.

There is still time to donate!

https://raceroster.com/events/2022/55315/2022-vancouver-half-marathon/pledge/team/386760?fs=e&s=cl

How cool is alto and Elektra librarian Deirdre’s 5k route!? We’ve had team members completing their virtual runs all month, and the in-person squad will be running 5ks and half-marathons this Sunday morning. There is still time to support Elektra’s team at the link below!

https://raceroster.com/events/2022/55315/2022-vancouver-half-marathon/pledge/team/386760?fs=e&s=cl

ICYMI: the video for Snewíyalh t’la Stakw (Teachings of the Water) premiered earlier this month and is available for free on YouTube. We’re so proud and honoured to have been a part of this project.

Snewíyalh tl’a Stakw - Teachings of the Water, performed by Elektra Women's Choir Companion ResourcesListener's Guide video - a 108-minute spoken backgrounder on the project's cultural context and creative process. View at https://youtu.b...

We’re two weeks away from the Vancouver Half Marathon Charity Challenge. Our Elektra team is training hard for the big day, and we’re very close to our fundraising goal. Can you help push us over the edge? Check out our team page below.

Donate to help Elektra Women's Choir raise money for 2022 Vancouver Half Marathon’s fundraising campaign, on June 26, 2022 Elektra inspires a strong following through consistent excellence in performance, a rich palette of sound, and open and professional presentation of who we are and what we do.Elektra is proud to support, encourage, and educate those around us in the choral community. Elektra’s prog...

Join us tonight (7pm PDT) for the premiere of our Snewíyalh t’la Stakw (Teachings of the Water) video. We have been looking forward to this moment for many months!

Snewíyalh tl’a Stakw - Teachings of the Water, performed by Elektra Women's Choir Companion ResourcesListener's Guide video - a 108-minute spoken backgrounder on the project's cultural context and creative process. View at https://youtu.b...

Are you joining us tomorrow for the Snewíyalh tl’a Staḵw (Teachings of the Water) video premiere?

Thanks for the article, Stir Vancouver!

Elektra sings Snewíyalh tl’a Staḵw (Teachings of the Water), an act of reconciliation through the arts — Stir Conceived by ethnomusicologist Jeanette Gallant, the five-piece a ca****la work is based on Squamish text gifted by Tsitsáy x emaat (Rebecca Duncan) and scored by Métis composer T. Patrick Carrabré

Snewíyalh tl’a Staḵw (Teachings of the Water) composer T Patrick Carrabre sat down with CBC Vancouver’s Gloria Macarenko this week to discuss the project and our June 9th premiere. Check out the video below for a sneak peek, and sign-up at the link in the comments to be reminded of the live premiere next Thursday!

Choral Teachings of the Water Metis composer T. Patrick Carrabre describes how Elektra Women’s Choir worked with local First Nations to create the video Snewiyalh tl'a Stakw (Teachings of the Water).

In just under a week, Elektra will release a new video, Snewíyalh tl’a Staḵw (Teachings of the Water). We hope you'll join us for the live premiere on our YouTube page, Thursday, June 9th, at 7pm PDT.

In the meantime, you can catch a sneak peak this weekend on CBC Vancouver's "Our Vancouver". Check it out live tomorrow morning at 9am Vancouver time - and we'll post an on demand link once it is available!

https://www.cbc.ca/player/news/Canada/BC/Our%20Vancouver

Our Vancouver - Video | CBC.ca Featuring the latest and best videos from CBC Our Vancouver

Yesterday at Podium, Choral Canada’s biennial national convention, Morna, Dr. Jeanette Gallant, and composer Dr. T Patrick Carrabre presented a session outlining Elektra’s video project, Snewíyalh tl’a Staḵw (Teachings of the Water).

The convention has been a joyful and invigorating coming together of Canada’s choral community - eagerly anticipated for the past two years.

Elektra’s digital video version of the piece goes live on Thursday, June 9th at 7:00pm PDT on the choir’s YouTube channel. Visit our website for more info!

https://elektra.ca/concerts-events/snewaylh-tla-stak%cc%b1w-teachings-of-the-water/

Our sincere thanks to the collaborators and audience members who joined us at last week's Lake of Stars concerts. Up next, we're looking forward to the premiere of the digital video for Snewiyalh tl'a Stakw, with music by T Patrick Carrabre and text in the Squamish language chosen, gifted, and taught to Elektra by Rebecca Duncan.

You can read more about the project in the post below - thanks to our season media sponsor Stir Vancouver for sharing!

Elektra to release “Snewíyalh tl’a Staḵw (Teachings of the Water)”, a collaborative project with First Nations — Stir Two years in the making, the new video was conceived by co-curator and ethnomusicologist Jeanette Gallant

We’re thrilled to welcome the Sitka String Quartet as guest arists at our Lake of Stars concerts this weekend. The Quartet was formed by friends and colleagues in the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. After years of playing together in the larger ensemble, and sharing numerous concerts as chamber musicians within the VSO Chamber Players, it was a natural extension of their like-minded musical curiosity, open-heartedness, and a fearless willingness to explore quartet repertoire across many genres that propelled these four musicians to form a professional quartet. The members are: violinists Cassandra Bequary and Karen Gerbrecht, violist Emilie Grimes, and cellist Olivia Blander.

If you want to learn more about the pieces we’ll be performing at this weekend’s Lake of Stars concerts, Morna’s Listener’s Guide is the thing for you! Learn more about how she chose the pieces for this concert, and how they all connect. Check it out below.

Lake of Stars – Elektra Women's Choir Elektra welcomes the Sitka String Quartet of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Cassandra Bequary and Karen Gerbrecht, violin, Emilie Grimes, viola, Olivia Blander, cello) in a program of uplifting works in celebration of life and nature. Joining us also are flautist Heather Beaty and bassist Yefeng....

Our Lake of Stars concerts are coming up next weekend, and we're excited to tell you a bit more about one of three world premieres you'll hear us perform!

The title work, Lake of Stars, was composed by Argentina’s Santiago c. Veros on a text by Charles Anthony Silvestri. It is a dramatic, pandemic-inspired composition of hope through darkness, and is the result of a collaboration between the composer and choirs from Canada and the United States. Set for women’s choir, alto flute, string quartet, and bass, Lake of Stars is about challenge, transformation, and renewal.

In his prologue to the work, written in consultation with Veros, conductor Brian Stevens says: "Each day we are remade, transformed by experience and time, and begin a fresh journey with new dreams, ideas, and opportunity! The concept of transformation and renewal through light over a lake is akin to the grace of living".

Get your tickets at the link below!

Lake of Stars – Elektra Women's Choir Elektra welcomes the Sitka String Quartet of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Cassandra Bequary and Karen Gerbrecht, violin, Emilie Grimes, viola, Olivia Blander, cello) in a program of uplifting works in celebration of life and nature. Joining us also are flautist Heather Beaty and bassist Leanna....

Read all about our upcoming Lake of Stars concerts in this interview with Morna Edmundson!

Sometimes, the stars align. That seems to be the case with Elektra Women's Choir's upcoming Lake of Stars concert featuring Sitka String Quartet.

https://www.createastir.ca/articles/elektra-womens-choir-sitka-string-quartet

We can’t wait to perform for you next month, Vancouver! Get your tickets now, at https://elektra.ca/concerts-events/lake-of-stars/

Elektra Women's Choir presents Lake of Stars, May 14 & 15.

Elektra welcomes the Sitka String Quartet of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (Cassandra Bequary and Karen Gerbrecht, violin, Emilie Grimes, viola, Olivia Blander, cello) in a program of uplifting works in celebration of life and nature. Joining the performance are flautist Heather Beaty and bassist Leanna Wong.

For tickets and more information: elektra.ca/concerts-events/lake-of-stars/

Our Lake of Stars concerts in May will feature a new arrangement of Ramona Luengen's "Night", with string quartet accompaniment provided by our guests, the Sitka String Quartet. You can hear the original below, and we hope you'll join us next month to hear the new version with strings!

Night by Ramona Luengen NIGHT by Ramona Luengen (for women's choir and piano)Sheet music available at: www.jwpepper.comCommissioned by Oriana Women’s Choir (Toronto, Ontario)Live Co...

A featured work in Elektra’s May 14 and 15 Lake of Stars concerts is Snewíyalh tl’a Stakw, which means “Teachings of the Water” in the Squamish language. The fruit of a collaborative project with First Nations for over two years, the work was conceived by Co-Curator and ethnomusicologist, Dr. Jeanette Gallant, who brought the idea of a musical exploration of water teachings and relationality in First Nations cultures to Elektra’s Artistic Director Morna Edmundson in 2019. Métis composer T Patrick Carrabre, director of the UBC School of Music and Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, was commissioned to write the musical score with text in the Squamish language chosen, gifted, and taught to Elektra by Rebecca Duncan.

The result is a five-movement work exploring relationality in the natural world, birth, ceremony, song, and identity. At its world premiere, local Squamish educator Candice Halls-Howcroft will introduce each movement with a brief explanation of its water teaching.

Image courtesy of Kindred and Scout

Did you catch Morna Edmundson’s episode of ”This is My Music” on CBC Music yesterday? You can stream it any time at the link below!

This Is My Music with Tom Allen | Live Radio | CBC Listen Each week, This Is My Music is hosted by one of Canada's foremost international classical artists. The host selects a program of mainly classical music and presents it in a lively, engaging manner, enriched with personal anecdotes and insights.

Happy Earth Day! 💚💙🌎💙💚

The Peace of Wild Things Poem by Wendall Berry, music by Joan Szymko. Performed by Elektra Women's Choir