646 Richards St
Vancouver, BC V6B 3A3
Canada
Sarah McGrath’s pure, angelic voice and innate musicality have made her a much appreciated soloist and section lead in the Holy Rosary Cathedral choir. After solo and choral studies at UBC, she has sung in tours across Europe, China, and the USA, including at Carnegie Hall and the Beijing National Centre for the Performing Arts, and is also a section lead in the Vancouver Cantata Singers.
Denis Bédard was laureate of the “Prix d’Europe” in 1975 and of the CBC Radio Talent Competition in 1978. He has given recitals across Canada, in the United States, in France, and in Brazil, and pursues an international career as a composer. His music has been performed and recorded throughout the world and he has received commissions from Radio-Canada, the CBC, the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, Monaco Cathedral, and various professional musicians in Canada, England, France, Switzerland and the U.S. Since September 2001 he has been organist and music director at Holy Rosary Cathedral in Vancouver.
Programme:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C major BWV 545
André Campra : Jubilate Deo
Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck : Variations on the Chorale “Mache dich mein Geist bereit”
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi : Cujus animam gementem, Vidit suum dulcem natum from Stabat Mater
Johann Sebastian Bach : Fantasia in G major BWV 571
César Franck: Cantabile
Alexandre Guilmant: March in D major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Laudate Dominum, Alleluia
Camille Saint-Saëns : Ave Maria
Denis Bédard: Communion sur “Lauda Sion”, Prélude et Toccata sur “Victimae Paschali Laudes”
Performance visible on a giant screen at the front of the Cathedral.