PAST HIGHLIGHTS

National Music Festival Ontario Provincial Music Festival Guelph Kiwanis Music Festival GYS on CD Tours and Visiting Choirs Seasonal Concerts Benefit Concerts Guelph Spring Festival Other Performances Other Highlights

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National Music Festival

• Second place for Choir III, 2007
• Second place for Chamber Choir, 2007
• Second place for Choir IV, 2003 - Lincoln Trophy
• First place for Choir IV, 2001 - Richard W. Cooke Trophy
• First place for Choir III, 1999 - English Trophy (14 and under)
• First place for Choir I, 1996 - Wharton Trophy (10 and under)
• Second place for Choir II 1996 - English Trophy (14 and under)

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Ontario Provincial Music Festival

• First place and George S. Matheison award for Chamber Choir, 2008
• Honourable Mention for Choir III, 2008
• First place for Choir III, 2007
• First place for Chamber Choir, 2007
• Second place for Choir II, 2007
• Second place for Choirs III & IV, 2006
• Second place for Choirs III & IV, 2003 (19 and under)
• First place for Choir IV, 2001 (small ensemble)
• First place for Choir III, 2000 (19 and under)
• First place for Choir III, 1999 (14 and under)
• First place for Touring Choir, 1999
• First place for Choir I, 1996
• First place for Choir II, 1996

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Guelph Kiwanis Music Festival

• Most Outstanding Performance 2007
• Best Choral Program 1996-2007
• Best Choral Performance 1993, 1995, 1999-2004

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GYS on CD

• Release of second solo CD, Wind in Our Sails, November 1, 2002
• Release of first solo CD, Bird In The Nest, April 18, 1998
• Spcial guests on live CD, Blankets of Snow, produced by Guelph band Tamarack, at the River Run Centre, December 5-7, 1997
• Contributing artists on CD, A Noteworthy Christmas, Great Canadian Choirs Sing Holiday Favourites, sponsored by Coles, Smithbooks, Chapters, and Frontier College Frontière in support of literacy, October 1996
• Release of CD, On Christmas Night, produced jointly with Guelph Chamber Choir, fall 1994

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Tours and Visiting Choirs

• SEVEC exchange with Vancouver Children's Choir, Vancouver, British Columbia, 2006-2007
• SEVEC exchange with Pictou District Honour Choir, Pictou, Nova Scotia, 2005-2006
• Tour to Farmington Hills, Michigan as guest artists of Nardin Park United Methodist Church, 2005
• SEVEC exchange with Calgary Girls Choir, Calgary, Alberta, 2004-2005
• SEVEC exchange with Coastal Sound Music Academy, Coquitlam, British Columbia, 2003-2004
• Tour to Fort Wayne, Indiana as guest artists of First Presbyterian Church, 2003
• Tour to Syracuse, New York as guests of Syracuse Children's Chorus, 2002
• SEVEC exchange with Northside Honour Choir, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 2002
• Tour to Albion, Michigan as guest artists of Albion College, 2001
• Tour to Potsdam, New York as guest artists of State University of New York, 2000
• Tour to Chicago, Illinois as guest artists at the American Choral Directors Association Convention, 1999
• Hosts Carmina Slovenica, a Slovenian Choir, and sings as guests of Toronto Children's Chorus, 1998
• Hosts Yokohama Choir from Japan in concert and in their homes, 1997

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Seasonal Concerts

• Follow the Star, December 5, 2009
• Rhythm of the Rain, May 23, 2009
• Walking in the Air, November 29, 2008
• Creatures Great and Small, April 26, 2008
• It's Snow!, December 1, 2007
• If Music be the Food of Love, May 26, 2007
• Ring Those Christmas Bells, December 2, 2006
• The Sun on Our Shoulders, 2006
• Like a Rainbow, April 30, 2005
• This New Christmas Carol, December 3, 2005
• I've Got Roots, May 1, 2004
• Do You Hear What I Hear?, December 4, 2004
• Butterfly Dreams, May 3, 2003
• The Holly and the Ivy, November 29, 2003
• The Wind in Our Sails, May 4, 2002
• Joy be Yours!, November 30, 2002
• May Day Carol, May 5, 2001
• I Hear Bells, December 4, 2000

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Benefit Concerts

• Perform in concert (click to see poster) for Hospice Wellington, 2009
• Perform in concert for Stephen Lewis Foundation, 2007
• Performs Friends in Song with Northside Honour Choir for the Guelph Youth Music Centre, 2002
• Performance for Unicef at Church of Our Lady, Guelph, 1996
• Performance with Suzuki String School of Guelph for the Guelph Youth Music Centre, 1993

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Guelph Spring Festival

• Performance of Basic Music (John Beckwith) with Bach Children's Chorus, St. Marys Children's Chorus, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, 1998
• Opening concert, 1997
• Performance of Iron John (Ray Luedeke), world premiere workshop of Act I, 1994
• Performance of Wheel of the World (Gordon Cross), North American premiere, 1993
• Performance in Focus on Edward Johnson, 1992

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Other Performances

• Performance with four other choirs under Simon Carrington in Mississauga Choral Festival, 2004
• Performance of St Nicholas Cantata (Britten) with Guelph Chamber Choir and Guelph Symphony Orchestra at Church of Our Lady in Guelph, 2003
• Performance at Podium with Bach Children's Chorus as guest artists of the biennial conference of the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors in Toronto, 2002
• Performance at the opening of the Ontario Winter Games in Guelph, 2002
• Performance in "A Choral Celebration" with Bob Chilcott and hosted by High Park Choirs of Toronto, 2000
• Performance of Mass for All Creatures (Oliver Whitehead) as guest artists of Guelph Chamber Choir, 2000
• Performance as guests of the Cantabile Choirs of Kingston, 2000
• Performance of St. Matthew Passion (Bach) with the Bach Children's Chorus and the Elmer Iseler Singers, as special guests of the Amadeus Choir for their 25th anniversary concert, Ford Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, April 8, 2000 (see review)
• Performance of A Boy Was Born (Britten) with the Elora Festival Singers, Elora, 1999
• Hosts "Youth Choirs in Concert" with Bach Chamber Youth Choir, Festival Youth Singers, and Cantable Youth Singers, 1999
• Performance of St. Matthew Passion (Bach) with the Elora Festival Singers and Orchestra, Noel Edison, conductor, March 7, 1999
• Performance in international music celebration with the world-famous percussion ensemble Nexus at University of Toronto, 1998
• Joint concert with McGill Conservatory Children's Choir, Montreal, 1998
• International Children's Choir Festival hosted by the Toronto Children's Chorus, Toronto, October 1998
• Performance of Hallelujah Handel with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, at Centre in the Square, Kitchener, April 5, 1998
• Performance at the gala opening of the new River Run Centre, October 4, 1997
• Performance with Hamilton Opera Society in Bizet's Carmen, 1997
• Performance at Podium as guest artists of the biennial conference of the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors in Quebec City, May 1996
• Performance of Threnody (R. Murray Schafer) with Guelph Youth Orchestra, November 1995
• Performance at official launch of the building of the new Guelph Civic Centre, 1995
• Toronto International Festival "Choirs in the Community" concert series, 1993
• Performance of St Nicholas Cantata (Britten) co-produced with Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo, 1993
• Performance with St. Marys Children's Choir for the Toronto International Choral Festival, 1993
• Hosting of first choral workshop event with Bach Children's Chorus and St. Marys Children's Choir as guests and Mitch Bondy, clinician, 1993
• GCC's first concert, as guests of the Guelph Chamber Choir at St. George's Church, 1991

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Other Highlights

• Linda Beaupré is named co-winner of the Leslie Bell Prize for Choral Conducting by Ontario Arts Council and Choirs Ontario, 2006
• Recording of Song of Our City by James Gordon as the title track of his CD, 2002
• First season of vocal coaching programme, 1999
• A new choir is formed for children in grades 1 and up, 1998
• Choir IV is formed: a soprano-alto-tenor-base (SATB) choir that runs for two seasons and then is recreated as a SSA choir for older girls, 1997
• Auditions announced in the Guelph Tribune for the new Guelph Children Singers (GCC), formed as a joint project of the Guelph Arts Council and the Guelph Chamber Music Society, June 12, 1991