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The Oratorio Singers 4th annual German Christmas event with trumpets, oboes, strings, timpani and organ, presenting music by Bach, Homilius, Mendelssohn and Brahms with chorales and Christmas songs from Germany. Michael Molnar, organist; Darryl Nixon, direction.

Performed by the Cathedral’s own musicians: organist Denis Bédard and the Cathedral Choir, assistant organist Catherine Walsh and the Holy Rosary Women’s Choir, the Contemporary Choir with director Chito Lacsina, and the Spanish Mass Choir..

Freewill offering.

Featuring organist Darryl Nixon  and the St. Andrew’s-Wesley Choirs
Bring the whole family and join us for a special music concert with choirs, brass and organ.  Also included is a traditional Christmas Carol singalong.

We will begin at St. James (at Cordova and Gore, near Main Street) at 11:00a.m., ascending the old spiral staircase up to its lush three-manual organ. Free parking is available near Oppenheimer park and further North (with meter parking nearby). We will enter at a side door on the West.

Then we will head West to the Elephant and Castle public house (at Burrard and Hastings) for lunch. Please RSVP to michaelmolnar@hotmail.com by January 18th, so we can have an idea about what size of reservation we should make.

To complete the British experience, we will then go to Christ Church Cathedral (at Burrard and Georgia) at 2:00p.m., to encounter and enjoy their three-manual, European-style, tracker-action organ.

Come out and enjoy two grand instruments and classic comfort food. We hope to see you there!

Music by J. S. Bach, French Baroque composer François Couperin, German Romantic composer Josef Rheinberger, and present-day composer Hans Uwe Hielscher (who will give the last concert in this series). Denis Bédard has given recitals across Canada, in the United States, in France and in Brazil and his works are performed throughout the world. Performance visible on a giant screen at the front of the Cathedral.

Organist Gerald Harder in Concert

Cook – Fanfare
Buxtehude – ‘Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern’
Hebble – Psalm-prelude
Hebble – Toccata on ‘Old hundredth’
Hebble – A symphony of light
Franck – Chorale No. 3 in A minor
Tambling – Fanfare on ‘Shine, Jesus, shine’

Marc D’Anjou (Quebec City Basilica organist, formerly at SBUC) and Marcus Petrunia (SBUC) in concert.

More details to follow later.

Angelique Po is a pianist, harpsichordist, organist and composer living and working in Vancouver, BC. Her versatility and broad range of interests in music style have led her into collaborations with a number of local ensembles and soloists. Her recent projects including playing the piano in a rare performance of Galina Ustvolskaya’s Grand Duet with cellist Laine Longton, and TomoeArts’ production of Farshid Samandari’s new chamber opera Kayoi Komachi. As a composer, she has written for various small ensembles, including the Piano and Erhu Project (PEP) with Corey Hamm and Nicole Li. She studied piano at the University of British Columbia under Dr. Sara Buechner.

She also studied harpsichord with Doreen Oke, organ with Michael Murray, and composition with Dr. Dorothy Chang, Dr. Stephen Chatman, and Bradshaw Pack. She is currently a board member with Vancouver Pro Musica, an organization dedicated to promoting and performing new music created by BC composers.

Praised for her “solo work of exceptional quality” by the Boston Globe, Katherine Evans is in her second season as principal trumpet of the Newport Symphony in Newport, OR. She has held principal trumpet positions and appeared as a soloist with several regional symphonies around Boston, MA. In Vancouver, Ms. Evans can be heard primarily as a soloist and freelancer, and has been featured on the St. Andrews Sacred Music Series and on the Holy Rosary Recital Series. She is recorded on the Centuar and Albany labels.

She is also a vocalist and currently sings with musica intima and the St. Andrews-Wesley Vocal Ensemble. She has worked extensively as a church vocal soloist and was featured in a Mendelssohn recording with the Christ Church Schola of Rochester, NY, on Loft Records.

Katherine holds an M.M. in trumpet performance from the Longy School of Music and a B.A. in English and Music from Harvard University.

Organist David Poon in concert.

Bach – Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564
Gibbons – Fantasia
Vierne – extracts from 24 Pièces en style libre, Op. 31
Messiaen – extracts from L’Ascension(1934)
Duruflé – Méditation (1964)
Cornelius-Bates – Lenten Improvisations
Improvisation

Performers: Haruyo Abramson, Michael Blais, Joan Chard, Cindy Ma, Gail Ovington, Alex and Max Schmidt

Music by J S Bach, Denis Bedard, Dietrich Buxtehude, Sidney Campbell, T Mee Patterson and Eugene Gigout

Reception following the concert, in the parish hall.