Two weeks before announcing its 2013 season, Stratford Summer Music has announced a four-day choral symposium for mid-July that will “explore and celebrate how choral music and choir singing are evolving in the 21st century.” It suggests this year’s 13th edition of the festival will have a lot of vocal content.
To be held in Stratford from July 18 to 21, participants in We Sing the World will get to sing as well as learn.
There will be workshops in new music with an environmental focus (including a performance of R. Murray Schafer’s Music for Wilderness Lake on Patterson Island) as well as different genres of world music.
The weekend concludes with the Symposium Chorus presenting a finale concert at St. Andrew’s Church, hosted by composer Peter Togni who hosts Choral Concert each Sunday on CBC Radio 2.
Togni and Schafer will be joined by other notable artists throughout the four days, including Suba Sankaran, Eleanor James, Christopher Dawes and Michael McGlynn, founding conductor of Anúna, Ireland’s National Choir.
All the details are available here.
John Terauds