Diocesan Choirs’ Festival 2022

This year’s Diocesan Choirs’ Festival will take place on Saturday June 18, 2022 at 4.30pm as part of the Festival of Music Within the Liturgy.

We invite choirs and individual singers from across the Diocese to come and sing Choral Evensong with the Cathedral Choir. The combined forces will sing the responses (plainsong), psalm, hymns, and the canticles:

Stanford Magnificat and Nun Dimittis in B flat.
Scores are available online in the public domain here.

We invite individual choirs from different parishes to propose anthems or other works to sing on their own at other parts of the service.

The rehearsal will be at 2pm in the Cathedral on June 18, with the service following at 4.30pm.

Covid Safety
The Cathedral still asks all in attendance to mask at all times, and choral singers stand physically distanced.

Archive of Previous Diocesan Choirs' Festivals

Sunday June 20, 2021
During the Covid-19 closure we held an online quiz night with participants from across the Diocese.

Saturday February 1, 2020
Organist: Dr. Neil Cockburn, Director of Music, Cathedral Church of the Redeemer
Guest Conductor: Jean-Louis Bleau, Artistic Director, Mount Royal Choral Program

Singers from the following Anglican parishes participated:
Calgary: Cathedral Church of the Redeemer; St. Peter’s; Holy Cross; St. Paul, Dinka

• The service format was “Evening Prayer” from the Book of Alternative Services. Participating choirs sang solo works, and the full ensemble of singers joined together in a performance of C.H.H. Parry’s “I was glad.”
  Hymns (From Common Praise): 132, 18, 362, 325

Saturday February 2, 2019
Conductor: Dr. Neil Cockburn, Director of Music, Cathedral Church of the Redeemer
Guest Organist: Chellan Hoffman, Music Director, Knox United Church, Calgary

Singers from the following Anglican parishes participated:
Calgary: Cathedral Church of the Redeemer; Holy Cross; St. Andrews; St. Stephen’s
Lethbridge: St. Augustine's

• Plainsong Responses

• Psalms 48 and 87 (Anglican chants by Boyce and Crotch)

• Canticles: George Dyson (1883-1964) Evening Canticles in D

• Anthem: Johannes Eccard (1553-1611) When to the Temple Mary Went

• Hymns (From Common Praise): 13, 320; (From The New English Hymnal): 156

Saturday February 3, 2018
Guest Conductor: Margaret Newman, Organist and Director of Music—Christ Church Calgary
Organist: Dr. Neil Cockburn, Director of Music, Cathedral Church of the Redeemer

Singers from the following Anglican parishes participated:
Calgary: Cathedral Church of the Redeemer; Christ Church; St. Andrews
Lethbridge: St. Augustine's

• Plainsong Responses

• Psalms 23 and 27 (Anglican chants by Henry Smart)

• Canticles: John Stainer Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in B-flat Major

• Anthem: Charles Stanford How Beauteous Are Their Feet

• Hymns (From Common Praise): 18, 596, 325

Saturday February 4, 2017
Conductor: Dr. Neil Cockburn, Director of Music, Cathedral Church of the Redeemer
Guest Organist: John Bouz, Assistant Organist—Christ Church Calgary

Singers from the following Anglican parishes participated:
Calgary: Cathedral Church of the Redeemer; Holy Cross
Lethbridge: St. Augustine's
Red Deer: St. Luke's

• Plainsong Responses

• Psalms 23 and 27 (Anglican chants by Henry Smart)

• Canticles: Charles Wood Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D

• Anthem: Edward Bairstow The Day Draws on with Golden Light

• Hymns (From Common Praise): 26, 546, 310

The Cathedral Organ