PERFORMANCES University of Alberta Convocation Hall (Edmonton), featuring Shumayela (Kimberley Denis, conductor, Vicky Berg, pianist)
REPERTOIRE Ad Astra | Jacob Narverud All Together We Are Love | Katerina Gimon* Call of the Ocean | Donna Rhodenizer* Ombra Mai Fù | George Frideric Handel On the Sunny Side of the Street | Jimmy McHugh, arr. Rosana Eckert Sing to Me | Andrea Ramsey The Sleepy Song (A Cree Lullaby) | Sherryl Sewepagaham*, ed. Kim Denis Vichten | Angèle Arsenault*, arr. Hart Rouge
* denotes Canadian composer
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)