Via Choralis – Celebrating 25 years!

new singers welcome in our 26th season 2024-25:

New Beginnings

In our 2024-25 Season, we are celebrating our 26th year of singing with our new Artistic Director, Kathryn Whitney.

We are an SATB chamber choir for all voices that performs classical and contemporary choral compositions on the Saanich Peninsula.

We rehearse on Monday evenings from 7:00-9:00pm at St Elizabeth Church, 10030 Third Street in Sidney. Rehearsals begin in September.

For 2025, our First Rehearsal is Monday, January 20.

Rehearsal & Concert Dates: Follow this link to view our full rehearsal schedule.

Elizabethan Spring

For our second concert with our new director, we are singing a very special concert of music from and about the Elizabethan period of music – roughly the long 16th century. The concert will feature madrigals, part songs, street songs, and music from the chapel and court.

Our concert takes us on a journey that starts in England under Elizabeth I, and then sojourns briefly to neighbouring France. We then set sail on a musical voyage to the New World, where we sing a mixture of 16th- and early 17th-century music performed by or inspired by European music in the Americas.

There will be some uplifting familiar madrigals, a few audience singalongs, some beautiful solo pieces, stunning 5-part music from Elizabeth I’s court composers Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, plus instrumental dance music by guest musicians.

Elizabethan Spring will be an unforgettable concert  – we hope you will join us!

First rehearsal: Monday, January 20, 7pm (arrival 6.45) at St Elizabeth Church, Sidney

Concert: Sunday afternoon, April 27 at 2pm at St Elizabeth Church in Sidney

Join Us

Via Choralis is currently accepting new members in all voice parts. All singers are warmly encouraged to be in touch about joining the choir for our 2024-25 season.

If you have questions about the choir, or if would like to arrange a friendly voice placement audition, please write to our director, Kathryn Whitney, via email at: viachoralis@kathrynwhitney.net.

Kathryn Whitney, Artistic Director

Venues

All performances are at St. Elizabeth’s Church, 10030 Third Street, Sidney.