MacMillan Singers with Elmer Iseler Singers

This concert is presented by Elmer Iseler Singers

Dr. Jamie Hillman and Lydia Adams, Conductors
Featuring the Toronto premiere of Norbert Palej’s new choral work Missa Super Terminos with special guests, the MacMillan Singers, directed by Dr. Jamie Hillman. The MacMillan Singers are a 45-student chamber choir from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. Norbert Palej is Associate Professor of Composition and the artistic director of the annual New Music Festival at UofT. UofT alumni – Katherine Whyte, Soprano and Jacob Abrahamse, Tenor will be soloists in the Palej piece with accompaniment by strings from UofT and the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music.

Lydia Adams and the Elmer Iseler Singers welcome this special association with the Faculty of Music, U of T and Dr. Jamie Hillman, Elmer Iseler Chair in Conducting.

Representatives from five Toronto major children’s/youth choirs will comprise a Gallery Choir for Eleanor Daley’s great Prayer for Peace.
Gallery Choir – special guest singers from:

Bach Children’s Chorus, Linda Beaupré, Founding Artistic Director
The Canadian Children’s Opera Company, Teri Dunn, Music Director
The Toronto Children’s Chorus, Zimfira Poloz, Artistic Director
VIVA Singers Toronto, Carol Ratzlaff, Founding Artistic Director
Young Voices Toronto, Carole Anderson, Artistic Director

In addition, the MacMillan Singers will be performing The Creation: Make Me a World by Ruth Watson Henderson (Dr. Jamie Hillman, Conductor) and they will perform with the Elmer Iseler Singers (Lydia Adams, conductor) Totus Tuus by Henryk Górecki.

The Elmer Iseler Singers (Lydia Adams, conductor) will be performing two world premieres by emerging composers Sure On This Shining Night by Michael Colvin and The Going by Steven Webb, along with Let Me Fall by Roman Hurko (in dedication to Volodymyr Zelenskyy). EIS James T. Chestnutt Scholar Manishya Jayasundera will conduct Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Stephanie Martin.

Repertoire:
- Totus Tuus – Henryk Górecki
- World premiere: Sure On This Shining Night – Michael Colvin
- Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Stephanie Martin
- Let Me Fall – Roman Hurko
- World premiere: The Going – Steven Webb (with Percussionists: KöNG Duo – Bevis Ng and Hoi Tong Keung)
- The Creation: Make Me a World – Ruth Watson Henderson
- Toronto premiere: Missa Super Terminos: a Mass beyond borders – Norbert Palej (with soloists: Katherine Whyte, Soprano and Jacob Abrahamse, Tenor and string instrumentalists from UofT and Royal Conservatory of Music – Glenn Gould School)
- Prayer for Peace – Eleanor Daley (with Gallery Choir – see above)