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Well things are well underway for 2018-2019!

There are many returning members and we are all welcoming a large group of new choristers this season so it will be exciting to get together on September 4th at 6:45 sharp. We are still welcoming more young people to our auditions, with three more dates scheduled for them:

Thursday, August 30th,

Tuesday, September 4th,

Tuesday, September 11th

Alternative dates or arrangements can be made when scheduling your appointment.

If you, or someone you know, might be interested we would love to schedule an appointment for you.  More info or Schedule an Audition.

 

We are hitting the ground running this season as our first event will be at the National Art Centre on November 9th at 7:00 PM when we will be taking part in the the Benjamin Britten – War Requiem performance (NAC performance and ticket info ) This will mean many rehearsals preparing for this as this requiem is new for all of us. We are excited to meet and work with many talented individuals for this collaboration which will include members of Germany’s National Youth Orchestra (BJO), the National Art Centre Orchestra, members from other choral organizations and Chorus Master, Duain Wolfe . 

All of our lives will be certainly be filled with learning, challenges and hopefully fun while getting to know everyone in the weeks to come.

Hope you will come back and visit for updates on our season — concerts, performances, fundraisers, and whatever else comes may our way!

Celebrate Mother’s Day 2018 with the Ottawa Regional Youth Choir’s performance highlighting Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna

ORYC is proud to present this exciting and reflective work by American composer, Morten Lauridsen, in honour of his mother and fitting for this Mother’s Day concert. The concert will feature Organist, Shawn Potter.

“…Lauridsen composed the requiem Lux Aeterna in 1997, the year his mother died. She was the “muse” who introduced him to music, playing swing jazz and singing to him as a toddler. She also taught him to play the piano. The consolation for grief offered by Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna is often compared to that of Fauré’s Requiem and Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem, both works inspired by the deaths of the composers’ mothers. These works also have in common a deceptive simplicity, yet their capacity to touch the listener reveals mastery at expressing through music the depth of human emotion.” – Carol Talbeck

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Ticket Prices:

“Friend of the Choir” Tickets: $50 (includes reserved seating and a $25 tax receipt)

General Admission Tickets: Early Bird $25; At the Door $30

Senior/Student Tickets: Early Bird $15; At the Door $20

Children ages 12 and under are free

Well things are well underway for 2017-2018! Our regular Fall fundraising campaign — wonderful wreaths and centerpieces — is launched and we are racing towards our first major concert of the season, “Duruflé” at the amazing Paroisse Saint-François-d’Assise at the corner of Viewmont and Wellington Street West. Support us! Join Us! Remember with us!

Updated rehearsal and performance schedule is added to Members’ page.

Come meet the Board of Directors and learn how you can help in shaping the future of the ORYC!

Click here for details

 

The “Cycle of Song”

Well everyone, although our Mother’s Day Concert is our last “official” offering for our 2015-2016 Season our work is not yet done and while we rehearse and share for those last guest performances…we also start the “cycle” for the new 2016-2017 Season.

Life with a choir reminds me of the caterpillar/butterfly life cycle each and every season.  Some might even say there is a similarity to the “Butterfly Effect” in the Chaos Theory.  It can often feel that way when you are in the middle of things.

Through whichever way we choose to look at it, life in a choir fits both scenarios.  Each individual has the potential to influence the overall whole of the choir and the organization.  As young people go through the evolution – sometimes seems like a revolution – from caterpillar, chrysalis to adult, the appropriate environment, challenges and influences are key.  For the ORYC the voice and the person must be nurtured in order to flourish and reach for their potential. The ORYC certainly recognizes the challenges as we have had many of our own.

Help us evolve and grow to our potential!  We are currently auditioning new young men and women to sing and grow with us. Each individual influences every outcome for the choir.  The tone, the pitch, the emotion …the musicality of the whole. Up for the challenge?

Be a part of something amazing, creative and growing…part of the “Cycle of Song” for the 2016-2017 Season.  Auditions are currently being scheduled for June 5th and June 9th, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM.

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Mother’s Day 2016

   This Mother’s Day say it with song … or better yet let the Ottawa Regional Youth Choir

say it for you … On Sunday May 8th at 3:00 p.m. the increasingly well-known Ottawa

Regional Youth Choir presents a captivating and engaging program featuring sacred

works by the timeless classical masters Franz Schubert and William Byrd, as well as the

hauntingly beautiful, contemporary choral sounds of Morten Lauridsen and Eric Whitacre

at St. Joseph’s Parish, 174 Wilbrod (at Cumberland).

Tickets are available from Choir Members or via e-mail (send your requests to

orycinfo@gmail.com). Tickets purchased in advance by e-mail will be available at the

box office on the day of the concert and payment can be made at the time of pick-up.

For more information, please email orycinfo@gmail.com

Sunday, May 8th, 3:00 p.m.

St. Joseph’s Parish, 174 Wilbrod (at Cumberland)

Adults: $30 | Seniors and Students: $20 | 12 and under: Free

$5 discount for tickets purchased before May 6th.

Special Fundraising tickets are also available for $50

(Reserved seating, 25$ tax receipt, advance discount not applicable)

 

Adults: $30 | Seniors and Students: $20 | 12 and under: Free

$5 discount for tickets purchased before May 6th.

Special Fundraising tickets are also available for $50

(Reserved seating, 25$ tax receipt, advance discount not applicable)

Looking forward to performing the Lord Nelson Mass as the star of our first concert for the 2015-2016 season.

Doors will open at 2:00 so that you can browse and bid on our Silent Auction items and then the performance follows at 3:00.

Tickets available through Choir Members, email info@oryc.ca or at the door.

Tickets: Adults – $30 | Seniors & Students – $20 | 12 and Under Free
$5 discount for tickets bought by November 7th

Special “Friends of the Choir” Fundraising tickets: $50. (Reserved Seating, $25 Tax Receipt, advance discount not applicable)

So, here we are one rehearsal into our 2015-2016 season. As we go forward we know that some folks are just getting settled in school and learning what their schedules are going to be so we would like to offer some additional opportunities to audition for this year. We have some exciting performances, collaborations and activities in store.

The next set of audition dates are as follows:

Tuesday, September 8 from 4pm to 6:45pm
Thursday, September, 10 from 4pm to 7:30pm
Friday September, 11 from 6pm to 8pm
Tuesday, September 15 from 4pm to 6:45pm
Thursday, September, 17 from 4pm to 7:30pm

Amazing dress Rehearsal.  The Ottawa Regional Youth Choir singing “Is Someone Singing” with Col. Chris Hadfield in preparation for their performance at Noon on Parliament Hill on July 1, 2013.  Many thanks to the family of one of our choristers for sharing this with the ORYC.