AURA Chamber Choir

AURA has announced its upcoming spring concert will be performed at Peace Lutheran Church located at 1204-30th Avenue in Vernon, BC on Saturday April 21 at 7:30pm and on Sunday April 22 at 2:00pm.

The program will include works by our internationally acclaimed conductor Imant Raminsh including his Missa Brevis, last performed by members of AURA at Carnegie Hall in 2006.

Other pieces that you will not want to miss include Ave Verum Corpus, Ubi Caritas and I will Sing Unto the Lord (Text Psalm 104).

In a lighter vein, Nootka Paddle Song and Bye, Bye, Baby from the Northwest Trilogy will charm you and the famous Latvian folk song Put, Vejini (Blow, Winds) with its wonderful melody and rich harmony will make you smile for days.

Mark your calendars now…. you won’t want to miss this wonderful program.

I’ll let you know as soon as tickets are available in early April.

This is the weekend to enjoy great choral music presented by AURA Chamber Choir, marking the start of their 39th year.

The concerts take place this Saturday evening November 18th at 7:30pm or Sunday afternoon November 19th at 1:30pm at All Saints Anglican church, 3205 27th Street, Vernon.

Tickets are available from choir members and at the door.

For program information, please see our website at aurachamberchoir.com.

AURA has begun preparation for its Fall 2017 season with the first rehearsal of its 39th year last night. Even at this early stage, the music is wonderful to sing!

This season will be shared by two guest conductors, Terry Pitt-Brooke and Tami Harker, who have been chosen to audition for the Music Director’s position. They have selected the program which includes many well-loved favourites from AURA’s library including de Victoria’s Ave Maria, Faure’s Madrigal and Cantique de Jean Racine, Vivaldi’s Magnificat , Haydn’s The Heavens are Telling and the wonderful Seal Lullaby by Eric Whitacre, among others.

As always, basses and tenors are an especially welcome addition to the choir (along with soprano and alto). If you have an interest  in singing or exploring the possibility, please go to the “Contact Us” button to let us know of your interest in the choir.

Concert details will be available on this site at the end of October. In the meantime, reserve November 18th or 19th to hear our program of AURA favourites.

The Music Director selection committee has been hard at work over this smoky summer and is pleased to announce that two applicants have been chosen to conduct portions of the fall 2017 program. Once the repertoire is selected by our applicants, we will post the details…. in the meantime, please reserve November 18th or 19th at All Saints Anglican Church to hear AURA perform under these two fine musicians.

Our auditioning conductors are Tami Harker and Terrance Pitt-Brooke:

Tami Harker  has a Bachelor of Music, UBC, and a Bachelor of Education, UBC. Her twenty years of conducting and teaching experience has included teaching music for 14 years at McRoberts High School, Richmond,B.C.,  building a choral program of five choirs including a boys choir  that received gold standings  in festival competitions. She organized a Musical Theatre program at Arts Umbrella on Granville Island. She conducted the Delta Community Choir for four years, building its membership and expanding its repertoire to include works of the masters.  She started  the Tapestry Young Adult Choir (auditioned chamber ensemble), and the Angelicus Children’s Choir in Delta. She has presented vocal workshops, and given private voice instruction for twenty years

Terrance Pitt-Brooke  has a Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Education , UBC; Bachelor of Music, U of Toronto; Masters of Music (Choral Conducting) U of Wisconsin; currently completing his Doctorate at U of Arizona (choral and orchestral conducting).He has conducted selected works with the Erato Ensemble and Concord of Voices; and conducted a   number of community and church choirs , longer term, in the Lower Mainland –  i.e. North Shore Chorus, BC Tel Choir and Malaspina Choir of Naniamo. He  has had shorter term conducting  assignments  at UBC, Vancouver Community College, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Arizon, and received numerous awards.  He taught 12 years of high school music in Surrey, B.C., and a year in Vancouver. He sang several seasons in the Vancouver Chamber Choir (tenor).

The Spring 2018 program will feature the choral music of our founding director Imant Raminsh and will be conducted by him. Dates and repertoire will be confirmed soon.