The Valley Concert Series opens its 2024-25 season Vancouver’s musica intima, who are set to perform at the Matsqui Centennial Auditorium on Friday, Sept. 20 at 7:30 p.m.
musica intima is a self-directed professional choral ensemble. They sing without a conductor, each member enjoying the opportunity for creative input.
This collaborative approach has propelled the group from humble beginnings around a Vancouver dining room table to an award-winning ensemble that tours the world.
The ensemble’s most recent recording was nominated for a Juno Award in 2022. A piece from that recording will open the concert in Abbotsford. It is a work by the Ahishinaabe composer Andrew Balfour written in the style of the English Renaissance.
The program is titled The New Canon. It highlights the kind of music that the group feels will characterize the increasingly popular trends in choral music, but that also resonates with meaningful and cherished traditions. The wind is a recurring theme in the selections.
Most of the composers of the songs on the program are Canadian, but many have roots in cultures around the world—Guadeloupe, Malaysia, Haiti, Philippines, Jordan—and these roots are evoked in the music you will hear.
The growing list of talented Canadian First Nations composers is also represented – Cree, Anishinaabe and Metis.
This program is the first of a new season which will include a string quartet from the Netherlands, virtuosic violinists from New York and Norway, one of Canada’s great young pianists, and the zany Quartetto Gelato.
Tickets to this concert and season subscriptions are available online at valleyconcertsociety.com. The cost for this program is $32 for adults/seniors and $20 for students. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. There will be a pre-concert talk in the lobby at 6:50 p.m.
For more information call 604-289-3377.
