RESOUND Choir is an auditioned mixed-voice community choir that seeks the highest quality of performance in contemporary and traditional choral repertoire. Located just east of Toronto, the choir seeks out opportunities to make meaningful contributions in our region – providing choral workshops and performance opportunities for singers, hiring early-career instrumentalists, soloists and conductors, premiering the works of Canadian composers, partnering with front-line community service organizations, and collaborating with dancers, visual artists and youth groups in the region.
Refresh, Respond, RESOUND.
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Refresh, Respond, RESOUND.
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Poetry Contest for Canadian Indigenous & Inuit Writers
RESOUND Choir was so grateful to have Lisa Nasson as one of our Poetry Contest Adjudicators. The winners will be announced here on June 25th!
Lisa Nasson is a Mi’kmaq actor, director and storyteller from Mi'ma'ki, also known as Nova Scotia. She has spent most of her professional career touring with stories across Turtle Island. She studied acting at George Brown College in Toronto, and studied Classical Theatre with the Birmingham Conservatory at the Stratford Festival. Lisa was also a teacher at the Neptune Theatre School (Halifax), and Young People's Theatre (Toronto). Lisa was the Associate Artistic Director at Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto. Lisa was nominated for a Halifax Merritt Award for Outstanding New Play in 2019 for her playwriting work on "Rings Through Water", which focused on how by infecting the water with carelessness, we are also infecting ourselves. Lisa will be performing in the Stratford Festivals R+J as Benvolio, this summer. Thank you for sharing your time and knowledge with us, Lisa! |
Introducing one of our Poetry Contest Adjudicators, Andrew Balfour. Andrew is also the composer chosen to set the winning poem to music for RESOUND Choir to perform in our March 2022 Concert.
Of Cree descent, Winnipeg based composer Andrew Balfour is an innovative composer/conductor/singer/sound designer with a large body of choral, instrumental, electro-acoustic and orchestral works, including: Take the Indian (A Vocal reflection on Missing Children); Notinikew (Going to War); Empire Étrange: The Death of Louis Riel; Migiis: A Whiteshell Soundscape; Bawajigaywin (Vision Quest); Gregorioʼs Nightmare; Wa Wa Tey Wak (Northern Lights); Fantasia on a Poem by Rumi; Missa Brevis and Medieval Inuit; Quamaniq; Manitou Sky - An orchestral tone poem. His new Indigenous Opera, Mishaboozʼs Realm was recently premiered in Montreal and Halliburton, Ontario, commissioned by LʼAtelier Lyrique de Opéra de Montréal and Highlands Opera Workshop. Thank you so much, Andrew, for collaborating with us! |
"u·ni·ty" ~by Kiki SymonéKiki Symoné’s faceless digital art depicts the everyday life of Black communities. Visually capturing cultural themes of family, history, education, as well as racism and social inequality. Her beauty mark 'the black dot' is her trademark.
RESOUND Choir was fortunate to collaborate with Kiki for our 1st Virtual Concert. Click on the image to see more of her digital art. |
RESOUND Update: June 2021 RESOUND is preparing its 2021-2022 season. Auditions in August, Singing in September! We hope you'll join us! www.resoundchoir.ca/join-our-choir.html (All tickets for the cancelled March 2020 concert will be honoured at any future RESOUND concert.) Thank you for your continued support! |
Land Acknowledgement
The lands RESOUND Choir is situated on are covered by the Williams Treaties and are the traditional territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation, including Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi. These lands remain home to many Indigenous nations and peoples, with whom Resound Choir is thankful to share in friendship.
We acknowledge this land out of respect for the Indigenous nations who have cared for Turtle Island, also called North America, from before the arrival of settler peoples until this day. Most importantly, we acknowledge that the history of these lands has been tainted by poor treatment and a lack of friendship with the First Nations who call them home.
This history is something we are all affected by because we are all treaty people in Canada. We all have a shared history to reflect on, and each of us is affected by this history in different ways. Our past defines our present, but if we move forward as friends and allies, then it does not have to define our future.
We acknowledge this land out of respect for the Indigenous nations who have cared for Turtle Island, also called North America, from before the arrival of settler peoples until this day. Most importantly, we acknowledge that the history of these lands has been tainted by poor treatment and a lack of friendship with the First Nations who call them home.
This history is something we are all affected by because we are all treaty people in Canada. We all have a shared history to reflect on, and each of us is affected by this history in different ways. Our past defines our present, but if we move forward as friends and allies, then it does not have to define our future.
