Public Events at CRMSS Courses in 2024

CRMSS Pacific 2024
CRMSS Ontario 2024

CRMSS Pacific 2024

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Final course concert

Sunday, August 11, 2024: 4:30pm

This year, CRMSS Pacific is all about sunshine, good food, and wonderful music, all in the Italian way! Join us as we present music based around our theme of La Bella Italia: Music from the birthplace of the Renaissance . We will perform a representative selection of pieces from the large amount of repertoire we will have covered over the course of our week together. You'll hear the entire group, as well as small chamber choirs and two-per-part vocal consorts. Some of our soloists will also perform, and we're very lucky to have some viola da gamba players with us this week, who will play some chamber music for their wonderful instrument.

The concert takes place at St. Helen's Parish in Burnaby Heights, will last approximately 2 hours, and will include an intermission. Parking at the church is available for free.

Tickets are available through our online ticket shop, powered by CanadaHelps, and purchases of $30 or more are eligible for a full charitable tax receipt.

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St. Helen's Parish is located at 3860 Triumph Street, Burnaby BC, V5C 2A6

You can find a map on our contact page .

High Mass at St. Helen's Parish

Sunday, August 11, 2024: 11:30am

We will be performing the music at High Mass at St. Helen's Parish in Burnaby, BC on Sunday, August 11th, 2024. This will take place at 11:30am and all are welcome to attend this Roman Catholic church service.

St. Helen's Parish is located at 3860 Triumph Street, Burnaby BC, V5C 2A6

You can find a map on our contact page .

Choral Evensong at St. James' Anglican Church

Friday, August 9, 2024: 5:00pm

There will be an English Cathedral style service of Choral Evensong happening at St. James' Anglican Church on Friday, August 9th at 5pm, with the music provided by our particpants. The service is free to attend and will last approximately 45 minutes.

St. James' Anglican Church can be found at 303 East Cordova Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 1L4. Parking is very limited, so please try to arrive by public transit if possible. Some street parking is available.

You can find a map on our contact page .

Daily evening Compline church services

Every day from Sunday, August 4th to Saturday, August 10th, 2024: 9:00pm

Throughout the week, at the end of each day, we sing Compline at St. Helen's Parish.

These services began at 9pm each day, beginning on Sunday, August 4th. Our last Compline service will take place on Sarturday, August 10th.

Our Compline service is simple and largely made up of plainsong, with a few simple motets for contrast, and is a way of bringing our day together to a peaceful close - precisely as the service was designed to do in its original monastic context. These services serve as a way for us to come together as a course and to experience the daily rhythm of liturgical music making that formed the wider context for most of the music we are studying.

Our nightly Compline services were open to the public and there is no charge to attend. Compline usually lasts around 30 or 40 minutes.

Depending on how each day of the course has gone, sometimes we take a flexible approach with our scheduling at this time of the day, especially regarding the 9pm service start time. Please do join us, but if we are behind schedule, be prepared to observe some of our rehearsal (you are most welcome to do this!) and perhaps to stay a little longer than expected.

You can find a map on our contact page .

CRMSS Ontario 2024

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Final course concert

Sunday, May 26, 2024: 4:00pm

Our course this year has focused on the "blockbuster" motets of the Renaissance featuring huge numbers of individual voice parts (40, or even 60!) and these pieces will be on full display this afternoon. Directed by CRMSS Patron and Guest Artist, Peter Phillips, founder and director of The Tallis Scholars (UK), this concert will feature Tallis' "Spem in alium" , Striggio's "Ecce beatam lucem", and other highlights of our week together, such as multi-choir motets and canons written for upwards of 30 voice parts. The concert takes place at New St. James' Presbyterian Church (280 Oxford St. East, London Ontario), will last approximately 2 hours, and will include an intermission. Street parking is available for free. Tickets are available through our online ticket shop, powered by CanadaHelps, and purchases of $40 or more are eligible for a full charitable tax receipt.

Tickets are no longer on sale for this concert.

Choral Vespers at The Chapel at Windermere on the Mount

Friday, May 24, 2024: 5:30 pm

Ember Friday Vespers in the Octave of Pentecost

Please join us at The Chapel at Windermere on the Mount for a Choral Vespers service featuring psalm settings and motets by Lassus, Byrd, Sheppard, Mundy, and Victoria, as well as Gregorian Chant, sung by the participants of the Canadian Renaissance Music Summer Schools Ontario 2024 course. There is no charge to the public, and you do not have to be Roman Catholic to attend this service.

Peter Phillips, director of The Tallis Scholars, will be conducting during this service.

Daily evening Compline church services

Throughout the week, at the end of each day, we sang Compline at New St. James Presbyterian Church. For a few days this year, we're also returning to our old venue, Huron University College.

These services began at 9pm each day.

Our Compline service is simple and largely made up of plainsong, with a few simple motets for contrast, and is a way of bringing our day together to a peaceful close - precisely as the service was designed to do in its original monastic context. These services serve as a way for us to come together as a course and to experience the daily rhythm of liturgical music making that formed the wider context for most of the music we are studying.

Our nightly Compline services were open to the public and there is no charge to attend.

You can find directions to New St James Presbyterian Church and Huron University College on our contact page .