Ottawa Regional Youth Choir

Concert: Remembrance Day - Fauré's "Requiem"
2019-11-10 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) | St. Joseph’s Parish, 174 Wilbrod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N8, Canada
Faure poster
To kick off our 2019-2020 season we will be highlighting the Faure Requiem.

The Ottawa Regional Youth Choir joins forces with the Capital Chamber Choir to present you a reflective Remembrance Day concert with the beautiful fan-favourite, Fauré’s “Requiem”.
The program will highlight works by young local composers Emily Green (ORYC alumna) and Nicholas Piper (CCC member) as well as popular works by Eleanor Daley and the famous “Agnus Dei” by Samuel Barber – also known as “Adagio for Strings” where you may have heard in award-winning movies such as 1986’s “Platoon”!
ORYC and CCC would like to thank their sponsors for their generous support: The City of Ottawa, Ottawa Community Foundation, and the Ontario Arts Council.
We hope that you will be able join us for this for this wonderful performance.
Ticket prices*:
Fundraising Tickets – $50
General Admission – $30
Student/Senior – $20
Children under 12 attend for free
* Tickets will also be available at the door at the Concert.
Doors open 30 minutes before start of performance.
Note: Parking in the lot at St. Joseph’s will be free for those attending.

Wreaths and Centerpieces! Annual Fundraising Event
2019-10-21 - 2019-11-15 | St. Joseph’s Parish, 174 Wilbrod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N8, Canada
For our primary Fall Fundraising we are once again selling beautiful wreaths and centerpieces from our local provider in Bourget. Starting today and Last day for ordering will be November 15th!
Click here to purchase Wreaths or here for Centrepieces
2019 Holiday Fundraiser in support of our annual Music Retreat. We are selling fresh balsam wreaths and centrepieces crafted by a local Bourget farm. Wreaths and centre pieces are $25 each and profits from the sales go towards sending our choir members to our annual Music Retreat at the Y-Camp in Dunrobin at no extra cost to them at the beginning of our season. Add a festive touch to your home or business and support the Ottawa Regional Youth Choir at the same time!
Thank you!
Our Wreaths and Centerpieces will be available for pick up on December 1st, between 12:30–3:00 from the St. Joseph’s Parish – 174 Wilbrod Avenue, Ottawa.

ORYC at the Museum of Nature: Music under the Moon
2019-10-17 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Toronto) | Museum of Nature, 240 McLeod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Photo Credit: Ursula Wandeler-Schnewlin
Join us this Thursday, October 17 at 6:30PM at the Canadian Museum of Nature for an ‘Under the Moon’ performance in the museum’s lantern area! We will be performing moon-themed repertoire including Elton John’s Rocket Man among others.

For more information visit the event on the Museum of Nature’s site!

Season Kick-off!
2019-09-03 18:45 - 21:15 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
First rehearsal of our 2019-2020 Season! Will you be there? There is still time to audition so if you may be interested we would love to hear from you.

For more info or to audition

ECHOES of the SOUL
2019-06-19 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Kehillat Beth Israel, 1400 Coldrey Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1Z 7P9, Canada
The ORYC is very proud to have been invited to join Cantor Jason Green – Tenor, The Kol Beit Yisrael (The KBI Choir), Roland Graham – Piano and Gabriela Ruiz – Cello for this performance.
Additional information, tickets or sponsorships are available through their web site – https://kehillatbethisrael.shulcloud.com/form/echoes-concert.html

ORYC's Spring Concert including Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass
2019-05-03 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Toronto) | St. Joseph’s Parish, 174 Wilbrod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N8, Canada
It has been a very busy season for all of our Choristers and we are now coming up to ORYC’s Spring Concert including Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass accompanied by chamber orchestra. This concert will also feature three works by our own choristers: Emily Green, Yann McHaffie and Madox Terrell. We are so proud of the many young talented and dedicated musicians working with our organization this season.
We hope that you will be able join us for this for this wonderful performance.
Ticket prices*:
Fundraising Tickets – $50
General Admission – $30
Student/Senior – $20
Children under 12 attend for free
* Tickets will also be available at the door at the Concert.
Doors open 30 minutes before start of performance.
Note: Parking in the lot at St. Joseph’s will be free for those attending.

NAC - Pinnock's Matthew Passion
2019-01-17 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Toronto) | National Art Centre, 1 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P5W9, Canada
NAC – Pinnock’s Matthew Passion
Members of the ORYC are so thrilled to be a part of this upcoming performance at the NAC. Would love to have you there for support!
Additional information and tickets are available through the NAC page at https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/18709
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J.S. Bach The Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244
The NAC Orchestra is thrilled to welcome back to the podium former NAC Orchestra music director (1991–1997) Trevor Pinnock.
The St. Matthew Passion, J.S. Bach’s grandest musical work, follows the last days of Jesus’s life – through betrayal, arrest, and crucifixion. Comprising three choirs and two orchestras that perform together and separately throughout, the St. Matthew Passion is a masterpiece of both drama and subtlety. Questioning, responding, and “speaking” to one another, the choirs, orchestras, and soloists act as participants and observers, representing the voices of humanity. The narrative moves between characters – including Judas, Jesus, Pilate, and Pilate’s wife – creating a beautiful meditation on faith, courage, and hope.
Trevor Pinnock is revered worldwide as a harpsichordist and expert in baroque and early classical music. His celebrated direction of the magnificent St. Matthew Passion has earned him kudos around the globe for creating “a vibrant and disturbing drama, articulating the profound ambiguities at the heart of the work’s theology (The Guardian).

NAC - Pinnock's Matthew Passion
2019-01-16 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Toronto) | National Art Centre, 1 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P5W9, Canada
NAC – Pinnock’s Matthew Passion
Members of the ORYC are so thrilled to be a part of this upcoming performance at the NAC. Would love to have you there for support!
Additional information and tickets are available through the NAC page at https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/18709
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J.S. Bach The Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244
The NAC Orchestra is thrilled to welcome back to the podium former NAC Orchestra music director (1991–1997) Trevor Pinnock.
The St. Matthew Passion, J.S. Bach’s grandest musical work, follows the last days of Jesus’s life – through betrayal, arrest, and crucifixion. Comprising three choirs and two orchestras that perform together and separately throughout, the St. Matthew Passion is a masterpiece of both drama and subtlety. Questioning, responding, and “speaking” to one another, the choirs, orchestras, and soloists act as participants and observers, representing the voices of humanity. The narrative moves between characters – including Judas, Jesus, Pilate, and Pilate’s wife – creating a beautiful meditation on faith, courage, and hope.
“Trevor Pinnock is revered worldwide as a harpsichordist and expert in baroque and early classical music. His celebrated direction of the magnificent St. Matthew Passion has earned him kudos around the globe for creating “a vibrant and disturbing drama, articulating the profound ambiguities at the heart of the work’s theology” (The Guardian).

ORYC - Christmas Excerpts from Handel's Messiah and more
2018-12-16 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | St. Joseph’s Parish, 174 Wilbrod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Celebrate the season with us while we journey through the ages with Christmas excerpt from the wonderful Handel’s Messiah along with a variety of O Magnum Mysterium — from Victoria to Gjeilo, and visions of light and hope. Something many of us can truly appreciate at this time of year.

Ticket prices*:
Fundraising Tickets – $50
General Admission – $30
Student/Senior – $20
Children under 12 attend for free
* Tickets will be available at the door at the Concert.
Doors open 30 minutes before start of performance.
Note: Parking in the lot at St. Joseph’s will be free for those attending.

NAC - Britten's War Requiem
2018-11-09 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | National Art Centre, 1 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P5W9, Canada
The ORYC is extremely proud that we will be taking part in the Benjamin Britten – War Requiem performance (NAC performance and ticket info )
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 .

Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna - Ticketed Event
2018-05-13 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) | St. Joseph’s Parish, 174 Wilbrod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N8, Canada
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: At the Door $30
Senior/Student Tickets: At the Door $20
Children ages 12 and under are free

Songs for St. Joe's Supper Table - Fundraising event
2018-04-07 19:30 (America/Toronto) | St. Joseph’s Parish, 174 Wilbrod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N8, Canada
The joy of Song and the joy of giving…no better combination.
We would love you to join the Ottawa Regional Youth Choir and our special guests, The Ottawa Children’s Choirs – Concert and Chamber, and the Ottawa Catholic School Board Choirs – Children’s and Chamber, for our annual fundraiser for St. Joseph’s Supper Table.
Details:
St. Joseph’s Parish
174 Wilbrod Street
Saturday, April 7, 2018
Doors open at 7:00 and Concert begins at 7:30
No tickets required, free will offering

Purdys Fundraiser
2018-02-22 - 2018-03-13 | Ontario
Purdys Fundraiser Page
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Hello ORYC and ORYC Supporters,
It’s been a long winter. We’re all pining for Spring! Everyone needs a little pick me up.
The remedy to the winter blues is… CHOCOLATE!
So, spread the word! Tell your family and friends – I think they will agree.
Singing for Sweets! is ORYC’s Easter fundraising event. Order your yummy Purdys Chocolate, just in time for Easter!
Proceeds of the fundraiser will be put towards things like our annual choir retreat at the Y-Camp , music, and equipment that the choir needs to make the beautiful sounds that they always do!
Purchasing some very sweet Easter gifts for friends, family and yourself, is simple and sweet.
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Order Deadline Date: Fri Mar 13, 2017
Order pickup Information:
Pickup Date: TBD
Pickup Address:
151 Laurier Ave E
Ottawa
Special pickup Instructions;
Orders can be picked up on rehearsal night from 6:45PM – 9:15PM. Please access the church through the Wilbrod entrance (off the parking lot). Your orders will be waiting for you at the back of the sanctuary.

Candlelight Christmas | Noël à la chandelle
2017-12-05 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Dominion Chalmers United Church, 355 Cooper Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
The Ottawa Regional Youth Choir is excited to be a part of the upcoming Thirteen String Concert —
Candlelight Christmas | Noël à la chandelle
Visit the following link for additional information and to purchase tickets. Candlelight Christmas | Noël à la chandelle
Hope to see you there!

Tribute to Barbara (Mrs. Clark) - "Barbara Clark in Words and Music"
2017-11-19 15:00 (America/Toronto) | St. Joseph’s Parish, 174 Wilbrod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N8, Canada
This is a free event. We just want to invite those who would like to join in a Tribute to someone who has been part of many peoples lives and experiences in the musical / choral community.

Duruflé’s Requiem
2017-11-11 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
The Ottawa Regional Youth Choir, directed by Jamie Loback, is please to start it’s 2017-2018 Season with a very special presentation for this Remembrance Day. The concert will highlight Duruflé’s Requiem performed with chamber orchestra, the Capital Chamber Choir. and guest soloists John Avey and Tessa Fackelmann.
Moving from our usual venue we are delighted to be performing in the West End at the beautiful Paroisse St-François d’Assise, Ottawa.
Tickets Available Online from our Website, from choir members of both the ORYC and CCC.
Ticket information:
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Ticket Prices:
“Friend of the Choir” Tickets: $50 (includes reserved seating and a $25 tax receipt)
Adult 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

2017-2018 Auditions: Day 5
2017-09-12 17:00 - 18:40 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
Our next round of auditions will take place August 28 – 30 from 4PM – 7PM (last audition is booked at 6:50PM) and on September 5 and 12 from 5PM – 6:40PM (last audition is booked at 6:30PM). Candidates are required to perform a piece of their own choosing for the audition. They will also be asked to sing a few scales, do a little sight reading and discuss their musical experience with Jamie and our performance specialist Cara Gilbertson. Please do not hesitate to contact our management should you have any questions or concerns!

2017-2018 Auditions: Day 4
2017-09-05 17:00 - 18:40 (America/Toronto) | Ontario

2017-2018 Auditions: Day 3
2017-08-30 16:00 - 19:00 (America/Toronto) | Ontario

2017-2018 Auditions: Day 2
2017-08-29 16:00 - 19:00 (America/Toronto) | Ontario

2017-2018 Auditions: Day 1
2017-08-28 16:00 - 19:00 (America/Toronto) | St. Joseph’s Parish, 174 Wilbrod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N8, Canada

Cantus: Handel’s Coronation Anthems and Corlis' Missa Pax
2017-05-14 15:00 - 16:30 UTC | St. Joseph’s Parish, 174 Wilbrod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N8, Canada
Celebrate Mother’s Day 2017 with the Ottawa Regional Youth Choir’s performance of G.F. Handel’s Coronation Anthems and Corlis’ Missa Pax which will be performed with accompanist Aude Urbancic and guest musicians Shawn Potter – organ, and Roxanne Leveille – clarinet.
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Ticket Prices:
“Friend of the Choir” Tickets: $50 (includes reserved seating and a $25 tax receipt)
Adult 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.

Songs For St. Joe's Supper Table
2017-03-05 14:30 - 16:30 (America/Toronto) | St. Joseph’s Parish, 174 Wilbrod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N8, Canada
Featuring performances by;
Ottawa Children’s Choir Concert Choir
Ottawa Children’s Choir Chamber Choir
Ottawa Catholic School Board Children’s Choir
Ottawa Catholic School Board Chamber Choir

The concert is free will donation and all proceeds from the concert go towards St. Joe’s Supper Table.

ORYC Audition Date #2
2017-01-17 17:00 - 18:45 (America/Toronto) | St. Joseph’s Parish, 174 Wilbrod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N8, Canada

ORYC Audition Date #1
2017-01-10 17:00 - 18:45 (America/Toronto) | St. Joseph’s Parish, 174 Wilbrod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N8, Canada

Christmas Concert: Vivaldi’s Gloria
2016-12-15 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | St. Joseph’s Parish, 174 Wilbrod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N8, Canada
Celebrate the spirit of Christmas with the Ottawa Regional Youth Choir’s performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria along with other seasonal favourites.
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Ticket Prices:
“Friend of the Choir” Tickets:
$50 (includes reserved seating and a $25 tax receipt)
Adult 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.

Ottawa Regional Youth Choir - 2016 Annual General Meeting (AGM)
2016-11-15 18:00 - 18:30 (America/Toronto) | St. Joseph’s Parish, 174 Wilbrod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
NOTICE OF THE
Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Ottawa Regional Youth Choir (ORYC)
All Friends and Family, Volunteers and Supporters are welcome. Tea and coffee will be available.
There will be an open rehearsal immediately after the meeting and everyone is encouraged to stay for the duration.
Come meet the Board of Directors and learn how you can help in shaping the future of the ORYC!
Tuesday November 15, 2016
St. Joseph’s Parish & Sanctuary
151 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N8
6:00 PM
Agenda

Considering and accepting the financial statements for the year ended August 31, 2016
Approving the recommended budget for fiscal year 2016-2017 – September 1, 2016 – August 31, 2017
Approving the Election of Directors
Transaction of other business that may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment thereof.

DATED this 31st day of October, 2016 in Ottawa, Ontario.
Note: Voting at the AGM – All ORYC members in good standing (fees paid or contributions made) are eligible to vote at the AGM. “Members” are defined as: each Choir member; one additional member of a Choir Member’s Family and other financial supporters of the ORYC Society.

Remembrance Day Concert with ORYC and the Capital Chamber Choir
2016-11-11 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | St. Joseph’s Parish, 174 Wilbrod Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N8, Canada
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Ticket Prices:
“Friend of the Choir” Tickets: $50 (includes reserved seating and a $25 tax receipt)
Adult 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.
