ENSEMBLES 2009
Mississauga Children's Choir
The Mississauga Children’s Choir provides exceptional musical experiences through excellence in performance, education, touring and community service. In its 27th season, and with 140 singers, the MCC has established a wide reputation for its creative programming and commitment to new music.
In addition to numerous engagements in the city the MCC presents two annual major concerts in Mississauga’s Living Arts Centre, and frequently performs with top regional symphonies and ensembles. The MCC received the 2005 Mississauga Arts Council award for Established Performing Arts Groups, and were semi-finalists in the 2006 CBC National Choral Competition, Children’s Choir.
The senior ensemble, the Concert Choir, has traveled throughout eastern Canada, including participation in Newfoundland’s Festival 500, and, in western Canada, at the Coastal Sound International Choral Festival, British Columbia. During 2005 they toured England, performing at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle, Salisbury Cathedral and The Queen’s College, Oxford.
In 2004 the MCC established the first Mississauga Choral Festival for youth choirs. This initiative has welcomed hundreds of young singers from many parts of Canada and the USA to sing with distinguished conductors such as Simon Carrington, James Litton and Stephen Hatfield. In 2010, Bob Chilcott will conduct.
Many leading composers have written for the MCC, including Stephen Chatman, Bob Chilcott, Michael Coghlan Stephen Hatfield, Ruth Watson Henderson, Nancy Telfer, and the late Srul Irving Glick. These works have recently been released on a CD, Our Own Drum. The inherent vitality in this new music finds a perfect match in the quality of music making for which the choir is renown.
