Camerata Nova

2017 18 Season @Camerata Nova

SNOW ANGEL - 20177:30pm SAT Nov. 25 | 3:00pm SUN Nov. 26Crescent Fort Rouge United ChurchConductor/Curator: Vic PankratzConcert sponsors: Manitoba Hydro & Steinbach Credit UnionWe are proud to present Snow Angel, a five-movement work by Canadian Sarah Quartel exploring love, rebirth & beauty through the eyes of children. A children’s chorus from the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s Sistema music program & Winnipeg cellist Juliana Moroz will join Camerata Nova to perform this internationally acclaimed work. You can also expect the usual Camerata Nova blend of beauty mixed with quirk, from three renditions of O Magnum Mysterium to Canadian carols & arrangements, sing-alongs & a suite of Santa Claus songs from Andrew. A TALE OF TWO CITIES - 20187:30pm SAT Feb. 24 | 3:00pm SUN Feb. 25Westminster United ChurchCurator/Conductor: John WiensConcert supporters: Drs. Bill Pope & Elizabeth Tippet-PopeCamerata Nova presents an early music extravaganza with an expanded period choir, soloists & ten top period instrumentalists. Andrea Gabrieli & his nephew Giovanni Gabrieli transformed the face of Renaissance music & , in the process, changed Venice into a cultural magnet of Europe. Their music is showy & glorious with contrasting choirs of voices & instruments. This choral blockbuster features soloists Dan Peasgood & Dayna Lamothe. RED RIVER SONG - 20187:30pm SAT April 28 | 3:00pm SUN April 29Église Précieux-Sang Conductor/Curator: Mel BraunConcert supporters: Tire Stewardship ManitobaImagine the squeal & squeak of wooden wheels turning on wooden axles. Louis Riel’s Manitoba was filled with the sound of Red River carts, fiddles & voices. Join Camerata Nova & violinist/fiddler Claudine St-Arnauld in a celebration of poetry, music & wood-on-wood technology of the 1870s featuring the songs of Métis bard Pierre Falcon with tales of the buffalo hunt & the Battle of Seven Oaks, plus a new work by Manitoba Métis composer Eliot Britton.