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2020

NORTHERN ALBERTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR

GUEST ARTISTS 
Guest Conductor 
– Christy Elsner (Kansas City, MO)
Apprentice Conductor
 – ​Natalie Côté (Red Deer, AB)
Accompanist – Kim Cousineau (Edmonton, AB) 

PERFORMANCES 
Alberta Children's Choir Gala Concert 
– McDougall United Church (Edmonton), featuring Monsignor Fee Otterson Junior High School Choir, Good Shepherd Elementary School Choir, Edmonton Young Voices Children's Choir, and École Meridian Heights Magic Voices Vocal Ensemble

REPERTOIRE
Trilo | Swedish folksong, arr. Christy Elsner
'Tecum Principium' from Dixit Dominus | Antonio Vivaldi, arr. Christy Elsner
Why Not? | Nathan Howe
Stars | Larysa Kuzmenko
All the way home | Sarah Quartel
Morokeni | African greeting song, arr. Bernard 
Krüger
Hope Lingers On | Lissa Schneckenburger, arr. Andrea Ramsey
Will the Circle Be Unbroken | Traditional Appalachian hymn, arr. J. David Moore
SOUTHERN ALBERTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR

GUEST ARTISTS
Guest Conductor 
– Lynnel Joy Jenkins (Princeton, NJ)
Accompanist – Evan Mounce (Calgary, AB)

PERFORMANCES 
Alberta Children's Choir Gala Concert ​– Bella Concert Hall (Calgary), featuring Calgary Girls Charter School Concert Choir, Gilbert Paterson Select Choir, Magrath Elementary Senior Choir, and the Alegré Choir

REPERTOIRE 
Jubilanten | Jan Magne Førde
Kyrie Eleison | Ivo Antognini
'Regina Coeli' from Litanie della Madonna | Michael Haydn
I Started Out Singing | Jocelyn Hagen
Here on these Branches | Sarah Quartel
Take Me to the Water | Rollo Dilworth
​This Is Your Time | J. Reese Norris

2019

NORTHERN ALBERTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR

GUEST ARTISTS 
Guest Conductor
– Elaine Quilichini (Calgary, AB)
Accompanist – Kim Cousineau (Edmonton, AB) 

PERFORMANCES 
Alberta Children's Choir Gala Concert 
– Francis Winspear Centre for Music (Edmonton), featuring Edmonton Children's Junior Choir, Gold Bar School Choir, Yellowknife Youth Choir, Young Columbian Choir, and Sturgeon Composite High School Concert Choir

REPERTOIRE
'Ich Jauchze, Ich Lache' from Cantata #15 | Johann Sebastian Bach
'O Salutaris' from Messe Brève | Léo Delibes
Answer to a Child's Question | Timothy Strang
'Lullaby' from Migrations | Margaret King
'My Song' from Migrations | Margaret King
Mouth Music | Dolores Keane & John Faulkner
Land of the Silver Birch | arr. Michael Neaum
​A Canadian Folk Medley | arr. Janet Stachow
SOUTHERN ALBERTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR

GUEST ARTISTS
Guest Conductor 
– Ruth Dwyer (Indianapolis, IN)
Accompanist – Evan Mounce (Calgary, AB)

PERFORMANCES 
Alberta Children's Choir Gala Concert ​– Knox United Church (Calgary), featuring Youth Singers of Calgary (JUNIOR HI Division) and Westside Senior Concert Choir

REPERTOIRE 
Mein Freund ist Mein | Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. David R. White
Canticle to the Spirit | Eleanor Daley
Kol Han'shamah | Robert Applebaum
Beidh Aonach Amárach | arr. Beverly Jones & Ruth Dwyer
Oye | Jim Papoulis
The Dream Keeper | Rollo Dilworth
One Song at a Time | Darla Eschelman

2018

NORTHERN ALBERTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR

GUEST ARTISTS 
Guest Conductor
– Ruth Dwyer (Indianapolis, IN)
Accompanist – Kim Cousineau (Edmonton, AB) 

PERFORMANCES 
Alberta Children's Choir Gala Concert 
– Francis Winspear Centre for Music (Edmonton), featuring Mount Royal School Choir, St. Alphonsus Grade 4-5-6 Choir, Cantilon Chamber Choir, The Gracenotes, and Mary Hanley Grade 4-6 Choir

REPERTOIRE
Et exultavit from Magnificat RV 611 | Antonio Vivaldi
I Believe in the Sun | Thomas Juneau
Ciranda Da Lua | Daisy Fragoso
Rise and Shine | Spiritual arr. Rollo Dillworth
Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive | Harold Arlen, arr. Joy Hirokawa
We Are the Voices | Jim Papoulis
Amovolovolo | Traditional Zulu Dowry Song, arr. Rudolf de Beer 
SOUTHERN ALBERTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR

GUEST ARTISTS
Guest Conductor 
– Kelly Walsh (St. John's, NFL)
Accompanist – Evan Mounce (Calgary, AB)

PERFORMANCES 
Alberta Children's Choir Gala Concert ​– Knox United Church (Calgary), featuring Ecole Okotoks Junior High School Choir, Mount Royal Arioso, and Webber Academy Division II Choir

REPERTOIRE 
Gloria | David Giardiniere
How Can I Keep From Singing | Rev. Robert Lowry, arr. Rollo Dilworth
I'se the B'y | arr. John E. Govedas
Like a Singing Bird | Bob Chilcott
Shall We Dream? | Michael Atherton
Take Me Home | Maureen Ennis, arr. Leslee Heys
Wau Bulan | arr. Tracy Wong
Will There Really Be a "Morning"? | Craig Hella Johnson    

2017

NORTHERN ALBERTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR
​
GUEST ARTISTS
Guest Conductor
 -- Glenda Crawford (Mississauga, ON)
Accompanist -- Megan Crane (Edmonton, AB)

PERFORMANCES
Alberta Children's Choir Gala Concert — Francis Winspear Centre for Music (Edmonton), featuring D.S. MacKenzie Choir, Edmonton Children's Choir, Michael Strembitsky School Senior Choir, Monsignor Fee Otterson Junior High Choir, Nottingham Girls Choir

REPERTOIRE
The Rivals | Cynthia Gray 
Ask the Moon | Ron Nelson 
May I Learn to be Silent | Craig Cassils 
Bien vite c’est le jour de l’An | arr. Erica Phare-Bergh 
Everlasting Melody | Rollo Dilworth 
From Stabat Mater | G. Palestrina
  • I Stabat Mater dolorosa 
  • IV Que moerebat et dolebat 
  • VIII Fac, ut ardeat cor meum
SOUTHERN ALBERTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR

GUEST ARTISTS
Guest Conductor
 -- Joan Gregoryk (Washington, DC)
Accompanist -- Faye White (Calgary, AB)

PERFORMANCES
Alberta Children's Choir Gala Concert — Knox United Church (Calgary), featuring Brentwood School Senior Choir, Calgary Children's Choir

REPERTOIRE
Bless the Lord, O My Soul | Ruth Watson Henderson 
Laudate Dominum | W.A. Mozart, arr. Doreen Rao 
Cerf-volant | Barratier/Coulais 
Szello Zug | Lajos Bardon 
My Heart’s In the Highlands | arr. B. Wayne Bisbee 
Feel Good | arr. Barbara Baker
​Bowling Green | arr. Nick Page

2016

NORTHERN ALBERTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR
​

Guest Conductor:
Janeal Krehbiel
Accompanist: Megan Crane

PERFORMANCES
Alberta Children's Choir Gala Concert — McDougall United Church (Edmonton), featuring Ecole Meridian Heights Magic Voices, Edmonton Children's Choir, Kikimasu

Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus | Vivaldi, ed. Janey Galvan
Sing to Me | Andrea Ramsey 
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening | Vera Kistler
Lunar Lullaby | Jacob Narverud
Ton The' | Jeanne & Robert Gilmore, arr. Susan Brumfield
On Wind, On Wing | Amy Feldman Bernon
Angels Ever Bright and Fair | Handel, arr. Epp
When I Think of You | Laura Farnell
There Has to Be a Song | Andrea Ramsey
SOUTHERN ALBERTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR
​

Guest Conductor:
 Zimfira Poloz
Accompanist: Faye White

PERFORMANCES
Alberta Children's Choir Gala Concert — Knox United Church (Calgary), featuring Kairos Young Singers, University of Lethbridge Children's Choir
​

The Last Spring | Grieg, arr. Henry Leck 
Norwegian Trilogy | arr. Margaret King 
Breath in the Wind | J. Clemens
Canto De Pilon | Traditional, arr. Cristian Grases 
Stand Together | Jim Papoulis 
Piramida Shlomo Gronich | Naomi Faran

2015

NORTHERN ALBERTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR

​Guest Conductor:
 Sanna Valvanne
Accompanist: Mathew Walton

PERFORMANCES
Alberta Children's Choir Gala Concert — McDougall United Church (Edmonton), featuring Cantilon Chamber Choir, Young Columbian Choir

La ronda que nunca se acaba | Alberto Grau
Nuku nuku | trad. Finnish lullaby, arr. P.J. Hannikainen
Leijoo | trad. Joik from Lapland, arr. Sanna Valvanne
Singin’ in the Rain | Nacio Herb Brown
Hand in Hand | Giorgio Moroder, arr. Seppo Hovi
SOUTHERN ALBERTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR

​Guest Conductor:
 Christy Elsner
Accompanist: Faye Klassen

PERFORMANCES
Alberta Children's Choir Gala Concert — Knox United Church (Calgary), featuring Cantare Children's Choir, Gilbert Paterson Select Choir

Allelluia | J.S. Bach
The Adventures of Isabel | Andrea Ramsey
I Had a Paint Box | Z. Randall Stroope
The Deaf Old Woman | Missouri folksong, arr. Katherine Davis
I’m Going’ Up a Yonder | Walter Hawkins
The Sally Gardens | Benjamin Britten
Jambo | Teddy Kalanda Harrison, arr. Jacob Narverud

2014

NORTHERN ALBERTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR

​Guest Conductor:
Carolyn Boyes
Accompanist: Sheila Wright

PERFORMANCES
Alberta Children's Choir Gala Concert — McDougall United Church (Edmonton), featuring Cantilon Children's Choir, Eldorado School Choir, Suzuki Charter School Choir

Art Thou Troubled | George Frederic Handel
Canto de Pilon | Traditional from Venezuela, arr. Cristian Grases
Five Eyes | C. Armstrong Gibbs
How Can I Keep From Singing? | Rev. Robert Lowry, arr. Robert I. Hugh
Hush, Somebody's Callin' My Name | Traditional Spiritual, arr. Rollo Dilworth
Hushabye Mountain | Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman
J'entends le moulin | French Canadian folk song, arr. Marcelline K. Moody 
The Rhythm of Life | Dorothy Fields and Cy Coleman, arr. Roger Emerson
SOUTHERN ALBERTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR
​

Guest Conductor
: Elise Bradley
Accompanist: Faye Klassen

PERFORMANCES
Alberta Children's Choir Gala Concert — Knox United Church (Calgary), featuring Calgary Girls' School Concert Choir, Westside Children's Choir

A Dragon is in My Computer | David Hamilton
A Snowy Day | Sheldon Rose
Firefly | Andy Beck
Leisure | Eleanor Daley
Magical Kingdom | John Rutter
Sing a Song of Sixpence | Michael D. Mendoza
Sound the Trumpet | Henry Purcell 
Wenn ich ein Voglein War | Robert Schumann

2013

ALBERTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR

Guest Conductor
: Catherine Glaser-Climie
Accompanist: Sheila Wright 

PERFORMANCES
Alberta Children's Choir Gala Concert — McDougall United Church (Edmonton), featuring Alberta Children's Apprentice Choir, All City-Junior Choir, Edmonton Young Voices Children's Choir, Strathcona Children's Choir

Shiru | Allan Naplan 
Two Roads to the Heartland | Allan Gordon Bell 
Where'er You Walk | GF Handel 
Psalm 150 | Benjamin Britten 
Birdsong | Paul Read
ALBERTA CHILDREN'S APPRENTICE CHOIR

Guest Conductor:
Linda Burwell
Accompanist: Judy Loewent

​PERFORMANCES
Alberta Children's Choir Gala Concert — McDougall United Church (Edmonton), featuring Alberta Children's Choir, All City-Junior Choir, Edmonton Young Voices Children's Choir, Strathcona Children's Choir

You'll Never Guess What I Saw | Ruth Watson Henderson 
Hand Me Down My Silver Trumpet | Jean Ashworth Bartle 
The Mending Song | Daniel Kallman 
A Great Big Sea | Lori Anne Dolloff 
When I Lay Me Down To Sleep | James Mulholland

2012

ALBERTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR

Guest Conductor:
Kellie Walsh
Accompanist: Sheila Wright

PERFORMANCES
Alberta Children's Choir Gala Concert — McDougall United Church (Edmonton), featuring Blessed Kateri School Choir, Camrose and Area Senior Children's Choir, Victoria School of the Arts Div II Choir

Be Like a Bird | Sheila Wright **Commissioned work by the Alberta Choral Federation and World Premiere 
Can You Hear Me? | Bob Chilcott 
Oye | Jim Papoulis 
Heal the World | Michael Jackson, arr. Andy Beck 
Niska Banja | Nick Page 
Taivas on Sininen | arr. Donald Patriquin

2011

ALBERTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR

Guest Conductor: 
Linda Beaupre
Accompanist: Sheila Wright 

PERFORMANCES
Alberta Children's Choir Gala Concert — McDougall United Church (Edmonton), featuring Edmonton Children's Choir, The Gracenotes Choir, Kikimasu
​
Sesere eeye | Torres Strait Islands Folksong
Winter Sleigh Ride | Cynthia Gray
A Jubilant Song | Mary Lynn Lightfoot
Agnus Dei from the Little Jazz Mass | Bob Chilcott
Tutira Mai | Maori Folksong, arr. Anthony Ritchie
Canticle to the Spirit | Eleanor Daley
Hymn to Freedom | Oscar Peterson, arr. by Seppo Hovi
Mí Yítnení Of | Traditional Jewish Melody, arr. Audrey Snyder
Donkey Riding | Thomas Bell

2010

ALBERTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR

Guest Conductor: 
Zimfira Poloz
Accompanist: Dr. Roger Admiral

PERFORMANCES
Alberta Children's Choir Gala Concert — McDougall United Church (Edmonton), featuring St. Mary's Catholic School Grade 2/3 Choir, Julia Vos, Darin Grant

Winter's Night from Norwegian Sami Songs | Frode Fjellheim
An Irish Blessing | Eleanor Daley
Obwisana (Goin' to Ghana) | Ghana Folksong, Music by Mary Donnelly, arr. George L.O. Strid
Blue Skies | Irving Berlin, arr. Roger Emerson
Shining Moon | Thai Folksong, arr. Audrey Snyder
Ave Maria | Simon Lindley
Exsultate Cantamos Festivo | arr. Jay Althouse
A la Cart | Judith Watson
Kyrie from A Little Jazz Mass | Bob Chilcott
El Cielo Canta Alegria! | Pablo Sosa, arr. Roger Bergs

2009

ALBERTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR
​

Guest Conductor: 
Elise Bradley
Accompanist: Helen Stuart

​Sanctus | Richard Ozwin 
Mi’kmaq Honour Song | Lydia Adams 
J’Entends le Moulin | arr. Donald Patriquin
Cantar | Jay Althouse (Alfred) 
Peace Song | Dorothy Buchanan
Festive Alleluia | Lyn Williams
Magic Prayer | Srul Irving Glick (earthsongs) 
City Songs | Bob Chilcott (Oxford University Press)

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