National Competition for Canadian Amateur Choirs Winners 2011
The Association of Canadian
Choral Communities is pleased to announce the winners in
the National Competition for Canadian Amateur Choirs 2011
as selected by the final jury. Members of the jury were
Elise Bradley, Scott Leithead and John William Trotter.
Category 1: Children’s Choirs/Choeurs
d'enfants
First Place: The Bach Children’s Chorus:
Chamber Choir – Toronto, ON Conductor: Linda Beaupré
Category 2: Youth Choirs | Upper Voices/Choeurs de
jeunes | voix aiguës
First Place: Ensemble vocal senior De La
Salle – Ottawa, ON Conductor: Robert Filion
Category 3: Youth Choirs | Lower Voices/Choeurs de
jeunes | voix basses
First Place: Canterbury High School Male
Chorus – Ottawa, ON Conductor: Laurie Hamilton
Category 4: Youth Choirs | Mixed Voices/Choeurs de
jeunes | voix mixtes
First Place: Cawthra Park Chamber Choir –
Mississauga, ON Conductor: Bob Anderson
Second Place: Coastal Sound Youth Choir –
Vancouver, BC Conductor: Carrie Tennant
Category 5: Mixed-Voice Collegiate Choirs/Choeurs
post-secondaires | voix mixtes
First Place: University of Guelph Chamber
Singers Conductor: Marta McCarthy
Second Place: University of Alberta
Concert Choir Conductor: Debra Cairns
Category 6: Adult SATB Choirs/Choeurs d'adultes |
voix mixtes
First Place: Quintessential Vocal Ensemble
– St. John’s, NL Conductor: Susan Quinn
Category 7: Adult Chamber Choirs/Choeurs de chambre
d'adultes
First Place:
Vancouver Cantata Singers – Vancouver, BC Conductor: Eric
Hannan
Second Place: DaCapo Chamber Choir – Waterloo, ON
Conductor: Leonard Enns
Category 9: Equal-Voice Women’s Choirs/Choeurs de
femmes
First Place: Belle Canto (24 Voices)
Edmonton, AB Conductor: Heather Johnson
Category 10: Small Vocal Ensembles/Petits ensembles
vocaux
First Place: Afterglow – St. John’s, NL
Conductor/Contact: Susan Quinn/Adrienne Fitzgerald
Second Place: Ensemble vocal Arcantia –
Laval, QC Conductor: Jean-François Trudel
Category 11: Contemporary Choral Music/Musique
contemporaine
First Place: DaCapo Chamber Choir –
Waterloo, ON Conductor: Leonard Enns
Healy Willan Prize (Presented by Canada
Council): Vancouver Cantata Singers – Vancouver, BC
Conductor: Eric Hannan
The next National Competition for Canadian
Amateur Choirs will be held in 2013. Details will be posted
on the ACCC web site as soon as they are available.
For more information, please contact amateur.choirs@choralcanada.org or call
416.519.1165.