Events: Workshops on April 25-26 & Free Concert on April 27 at 4:00 pm.

Join us for the inaugural TrebleFest Ottawa: Upper Voices Choir Festival, hosted by Hypatia’s Voice in April 2025! This exciting event will celebrate the rich sound of treble choirs, featuring adult and high school-age sopranos and altos. We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt, Professor Emerita from the University of Toronto and a distinguished expert in treble choirs, will be our resident clinician and guest Artistic Director.

This inclusive event features guest choirs—Aella Choir, Cantiamo Choirs of Ottawa, and OCC Chamber Choir—and the host choir Hypatia’s Voice, alongside individual sopranos and altos from across the region. All singers in the soprano or alto range, regardless of gender identity, are invited to join in workshops, festival choir rehearsals, and a culminating concert. Dr. Apfelstadt will also lead a conducting workshop designed to nurture the skills of emerging conductors.

The final event of the festival is a free concert at St. Matthew’s on Sunday afternoon at 4:00 pm. The program will offer an inspiring showcase of repertoire for upper voices performed by the festival choir as well as each of the guest choirs.

For more information see: http://www.treblefest.ca

To Benefit Sun Youth's Children's Program.

Featuring La Chorale Junior de la commission scolaire English Montreal, Le Petit Choeur de Rosemère, Le Choeur classique des Basses-Laurentides, and Choir Gesu.

Join us for an unforgettable evening at Hypatia Sings Broadway, where music meets generosity! Enjoy captivating solo and small group performances while supporting a great “musical” cause. In addition to the beautiful music, there will be a silent auction, raffle, and a delicious bake sale—something for everyone!

Stay tuned for details on tickets and program highlights. This is your chance to support the arts while indulging in an evening of entertainment and community spirit!

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci will offer a multi-media experience using the latest in video syncing technology, combining choir, full orchestra and video projections. Composer Jocelyn Hagen was inspired by an exhibit of da Vinci’s work in 2016 and incorporates da Vinci’s stunningly beautiful handwriting and sketches into an entrancingly artistic tour de force.

Vocal soloists will be Ania Hejnar, soprano, Stéphanie Brassard, soprano, and Sydney Frodsham, contralto. Also to be featured in this concert, Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria, the Baroque-era Italian composer’s most famous choral work, is imaginatively inspired in its range of vocal and instrumental colour.

Featured Artists

Jean-Sébastien Vallée - Guest Conductor

Gabrielle Gaudreault - OCS Artistic Director

Christopher Ducasse - Assistant Music Director and Chorus Master

Ania Hejnar - Soprano

Stéphanie Brassard - Soprano

Sydney Frodsham - Contralto

Ottawa Music Company - Ensemble

All choirs under the Ottawa Children's Choir come together to share their voices with the community around the theme of light.

This concert is held at Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre in Downtown Ottawa and the new venue has a full balcony and more seats to welcome all our friends and family.

Tickets on sale Nov. 25th at 12 pm

Following the incredible success of our Fall 2023 program, we are excited to present the second iteration of “Women Composers Through Space and Time”! Join us for an enchanting evening filled with the captivating works of Ruth Watson Henderson, Sarah Quartel, Ysaÿe Barnwell, Andrea Ramsey, Tracy Wong, Florence Price and Clara Schumann. This program highlights the extraordinary talent of female composers from diverse cultures and eras, honouring their vital contributions to the world of choral music.

Bringing this program to life alongside Hypatia’s Voice and Artistic Director Christopher Ducasse, will be an amazing cast of musicians, including Sonya Matoussova on cello, Kim-Farris Manning on piano, and Nate Myers on percussion. Don’t miss this opportunity to celebrate the brilliance and creativity of women in music!

The centrepiece of this concert is Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem for choir, organ, mezzo-soprano and baritone. Composed during the Second World War, it was inspired by Duruflé’s fascination with Gregorian chant and is considered the 20th-century French composer’s masterpiece. Vocal soloists will be Geoffrey Sirett, baritone, and Tessa Fackelmann, mezzo-soprano.

Also on the program will be the highly regarded Litanies à la vierge noire. Another French composer of the 20th century, Francis Poulenc wrote this startlingly austere, often ferocious choral setting for organ and choir as an expression of his struggle toward a religious faith. These French classics will be accompanied by several works by Canadian composers, including Katerina Gimon, Stephanie Martin, Kathleen Allan, and Palestinian-Jordanian Canadian Shireen Abu Khader. Matthew Larkin will be the organist.

Hypatia’s Voice’s annual Spring concert will explore the music of light – around us and within us.

Join us in reflecting on sources of light in our lives with the choral music of Andrea Ramsey, Marie-Claire Saindon, Megan Batty, Christopher Ducasse, Sydney Guillaume, Eric Whitacre, Rollo Dillworth, Samo Vovk, and more!

Special guest appearance: The Ottawa Children’s Choir

The Ottawa Children's Choir's 5 choirs come together with an alumni choir to share their voices with the community during this 65th Anniversary Celebration, supported by the Ottawa Community Foundation and Ontario Arts Council. 

This concert is held at the St. Joseph's Parish in Downtown Ottawa. 

There is a new set up for this concert to give extra seating space and accommodate a larger massed choir with the alumni. For this reason, 6 rows of cushioned chairs have been added to the front of the audience. These are open to be purchased by anyone. 

In December 2014, the UN General Assembly proclaimed the years 2015 to 2024 as the International Decade for People of African Descent. The main objective of this decade is to strengthen actions and measures that ensure the full enjoyment of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights of people of African descent, and their full and equal participation in society. It also celebrates the contribution of people of African descent to culture, history, and society in general, especially in the rich and varied tradition of choral music.

PODIUM 2024 will mark the end of the decade with a concert featuring the Jireh Gospel Choir (Carol Bernard) and the Nathaniel Dett Chorale (Brainerd Blyden-Taylor). This concert highlights significant and diverse choral contributions of people of African descent, including Sydeny Guillaume, Evelyn Simpson Cureton, and Christopher Ducasse, who will conduct his own compositions.

OEUVRES AU PROGRAMME

Requiem – Gabriel Fauré

Hymne au Soleil – Lili Boulanger

Le pont Mirabeau – Lionel Daunais

Prière – Christopher Ducasse

Panis angelicus – César Franck

Akeem – Sydney Guillaume

Trois chansons – Maurice Ravel

Quand les hommes vivront d’amour – Raymond Lévesque 

To Benefit Sun Youth's Children's Program.

Featuring La Chorale Junior de la commission scolaire English Montreal, Le Petit Choeur de Rosemère, Le Choeur classique des Basses-Laurentides, and Anima Music.