We are so looking forward to joining our friends at the Elora Festival and the Festival of the Sound this summer as we all celebrate our 45 remarkable years of making music, with three concerts in July and August, 2024!
Please join the Elmer Iseler Singers at the Gambrel Barn in Elora and at the Charles W. Stockey Centre in Parry Sound as we light the fireworks to mark the end of our celebratory 45th season with a blaze of spectacular choral sound!
Elora Festival
Closing Gala: Carmina Burana
Lydia Adams, conductor
Mark Vuorinen, conductor
Saturday, July 20th, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Gambrel Barn, Elora, ON
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We celebrate with our friends in The Elora Singers singing Carl Orff’s exhilarating Carmina Burana in the brilliant closing of Elora Festival’s illustrious 45th season!
Featuring duo pianists Anagnoson & Kinton; percussionists Beverley Johnston, Ed Reifel, Michael Murphy, Louis Pino and Andy Morris; and spectacular soloists: soprano Leslie Fagan, tenor Andrew Haji, and baritone Russell Braun, all conducted by Mark Vuorinen. The EIS are thrilled to present the first half of this program singing works by James MacMillan, Hussein Janmohamed, Myroslav Skoryk, Eleanor Daley and Healey Willan and featuring soprano soloist Amy Dodington.
Festival of the Sound
Carmina Burana
Elmer Iseler Singers, Lydia Adams, conductor
The Elora Singers, Mark Vuorinen, conductor
Sunday, July 21st, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Charles W. Stockey Centre, Parry Sound, ON
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For 45 years, the Elmer Iseler Singers, Elora Festival and Festival of the Sound have championed great and inspiring music. This thrilling performance of Carl Orff’s iconic Carmina Burana is not to be missed in this celebration of these three outstanding organizations! Featuring duo pianists Anagnoson & Kinton; percussionists Beverley Johnston, Ed Reifel, Michael Murphy, Louis Pino and Andy Morris; and incomparable soloists Leslie Fagan, Andrew Haji, and Russell Braun, all under the baton of Mark Vuorinen. The Elora Singers will present outstanding choral works in the first half of this program.
Festival of the Sound
Elmer Iseler Singers At 45 with Baritone Gino Quilico
Lydia Adams, conductor
Friday, August 2nd, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Charles W. Stockey Centre, Parry Sound, ON
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This joyous and magical evening includes music by Felix Mendelssohn, Eleanor Daley, Thomas A. Dorsey, Robert Burns, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Leonard Cohen and Jimmy Rankin. You will love every minute of this enchanting performance as the Singers join with legendary baritone, Gino Quilico and pianists Dominic Boulianne and Guy Few, as Gino Quilico sings favourite arias including the Toreador Song from Carmen and You’ll Never Walk Alone, by Rodgers and Hammerstein, and tells stories from ‘behind the scenes’!