About the Concert
The combined choirs, together with musicians from the WSO under the baton of Yuri Klaz perform Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ.
About the Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir
There are few places classical choral music lovers can gather to hear high-quality traditional music on a grand scale. Deeply rooted in the choral community, The Phil is Winnipeg’s leading classical choir, providing audiences with an experience that’s dramatic, profoundly moving, and full of heart. The Phil has commissioned works by composers from both Manitoba and across Canada.
About the Winnipeg Singers
Regarded as one of Canada's finest choral ensembles, the Winnipeg Singers perform a diversity of choral music to the highest standard. The choir s consists of 24 professionally trained voices, performing music that spans the times from the Renaissance to the present. Each year the choir commissions new Canadian works and premieres other new works for its Manitoba audiences. It presents a concert series each year, engaging some of North America's finest musicians as guests. The Winnipeg Singers have performed joint concerts with such diverse organizations as Shakespeare in the Ruins, The Ron Paley Trio, MusikBarock Ensemble, Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers and Les danseurs de la rivière Rouge. The Singers regularly appear as guests of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, and have given concerts and workshops for local social agencies, business firms, and high schools.