Sunday, September 27, 2009
Renaissance Workshop with Betsy MacMillan. All voices and instruments are welcome as well as recorders, viols, baroque strings, baroque and renaissance winds, modern instruments, ...

Sunday, October 25, 2009
Margo Keenan, Director of the Ste. Anne Singers, welcomes all voices for an “A Capella Afternoon”. Various works, from the classical to jazz.
Margo Keenan directs the Sainte-Anne Singers, a chamber ensemble which she founded in 1987 with the aim of exploring a cappella music in all its variety. Under her direction, the ensemble has won the Montreal Choral Festival (advanced level) and placed in the quarter- and semi-finals of the CBC Choral Competition. Margo has participated in numerous choral conducting workshops and studied conducting privately with Peter Schubert. She founded and sang with the a cappella quartet Thin Ice for twelve years, and has founded and directed a number of school choirs in the West Island.

Repertoire:
Adieu, Sweet Amaryllis - John Wilbye (1574-1638)
When I Admire the Rose (from "Villanellas”) - Jean Berger (1909-2002)
Love Lost (Four Satirical Poems on Love) - Paul Sjolund (1969)
Les amours, les travaux - Gilles Vigneault / Robert Bibeau (1979)
You Are the New Day - John David / King's Singers (1992)
La lluvia - Stephen Hatfield (1996)
Remember - Christina Rossetti / Stephen Chatman (2002)
Hold Me, Rock Me - Brian Tate (2004)

And others, depending on the time and the interests of the singers...

Sunday, November 15, 2009
Sebastian Lauriault will conduct the Mass in C Major by Beethoven for choir and orchestra

Instruments: piano and full orchestra

Sunday, December 6, 2009
Christopher Jackson will conduct Handel's Messiah (Parts 1 and 2) for choir and orchestra. This reading will be at the Faculté de Musique of the Université de Montréal, Salle Serge Garant B484, 200 Vincent d'Indy, enter by the door left of the main entrance.
Choir: S.A.T.B.
Instruments: strings, flutes, oboes, bassoons, trumpets
Christopher Jackson has been conducting the CAMMAC Christmas reading for several years. Christopher is an organist and harpsichordist, is the musical director of the Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal, a professor at Concordia University, and is internationaly recognized as a conductor. He was a pioneer in the development of early music in Canada. Every summer, he conducts the choir at CAMMAC’s Lake MacDonald Music Centre during Early Music week, and is a member of the CAMMAC Board.
Christopher Jackson has been conducting the CAMMAC Christmas reading for several years. Christopher is an organist and harpsichordist, is the musical director of the Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal, a professor at Concordia University, and is internationaly recognised as a conductor. He was a pioneer in the development of early music in Canada. Every summer, he conducts the choir at CAMMAC’s Lake MacDonald Music Centre during Early Music week, and is a member of the CAMMAC Board.

January 17, 2010
Orchestra Workshop conducted by Cristian Gort - Works: Bruckner's Symphony no. 4, (first movement) and Edward Elgar, Enigma Variations (complete)

February 21, 2010
Erica Phare will conduct the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré.
Choir and piano
Erica Phare obtained a Master’s Degree in choral conducting from McGill University under the direction of Iwan Edwards.  She is also a classically-trained pianist.  Ms. Phare currently directs the choral program at Vanier College’s Music Department as well as the McGill Conservatory Children and Youth Choir, which she founded in 1994.  From 1994 to 2006, Ms. Phare was a specialist in vocal music at the primary level at F.A.C.E. School, and directed the F.A.C.E. Young Singers junior and senior choirs.  For 11 years, she also conducted the EMSB Junior Chorale.  She is in demand as a choral workshop leader and has been on many juries for choral competitions in Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Manitoba as well as teaching at CAMMAC and Artemusik summer camps.  In the summer of 2000, Ms. Phare was the program director for a children's group, King's Kids, in a tour to Israel.  She also prepared the New Streams Children’s Choir for their European and Israeli tour of Oratorio Terezin.  In July 2006, she traveled to Uganda to work with the African Children’s Choir.  In addition to her very busy choral conducting career, Ms. Phare also is a choral music arranger; two of her pieces have been published by Gordon V. Thompson. In 2007, she was commissioned by the CBC to do three choral arrangements on pieces by La Bolduc. In May 2008, she spear-headed the Montreal premiered of Oratorio Terezin at Place-des-Arts along with a team from Vanier College. 

March 14, 2010
Michael Zaugg will conduct Brahms' Requiem.
Choir and orchestra
Michael Zaugg is the conductor of the St-Lawrence Choir and the OSM Choir

April 25, 2010
W.A. Mozart's Coronation Mass conducted by Jean-Pascal Hamelin.
Choir and orchestra
CAMMAC - Montreal Annual General Meeting after the sight reading.