BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260518T124849Z UID:240-1241916@stgeorgescathedral.ca DTSTART:20260527T230000Z DTEND:20260528T000000Z CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260419T094505 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special service of Choral Evensong sung by Capell a Regalis Men\, Boys\, and Girls Choirs who will be visiting from Nova Sco tia as part of a 10-day Quebec-Ontario Tour (their first tour outside the Maritimes!). The service will feature splendid music for Pentecost with wo rks by English composers William Harris\, Herbert Howells and Thomas Talli s. Paul Halley\, multi-Grammy Award-winning Canadian composer and keyboard ist\, will join the choirs as guest organist. All are welcome to attend th is one-hour service of music and prayers.   \n \nCapella Regalis Choirs sing a concert at St George's Cathedral the next day\, Thursday\, May 28 at 7pm. More information here. \n \nThe Music List \nIntroit:  Behold the Tabernacle of God – W. Harris \nPreces &\; Responses –  B. Rose \nPsalm 119\, Parts 6-8 \nOffice Hymn: Rejoice! The year upon it s way \nMagnificat: St Paul’s Service – H. Howells \nNunc Dimittis: St Paul’s  Service – H. Howells \nAnthem:  Jesu\, the Very Though t of Thee – P. Halley \nClosing Hymn: Come Down\, O Love Divine   \ n \nABOUT CAPELLA REGALIS CHOIRS\nCapella Regalis Choirs is one of Canada ’s leading professional choral music organizations\, renowned for its wo rld-class performances\, recordings\, and online broadcasts. Founded in No va Scotia by Artistic Director Nick Halley in 2010 to build upon the best aspects of the European tradition of church choirs and to revitalize this method of music training in Canada\, Capella Regalis now comprises a Boys Choir\, Girls Choir\, and professional Men's Choir based in Halifax. In No vember 2024\, Capella Regalis launched its South Shore Program\, based in Lunenburg\, Nova Scotia\, which provides weekly singing training for child ren from Nova Scotia’s South Shore communities. All Capella Regalis chil dren's choirs are free and open to any child who is keen to learn music\, and Capella Regalis offers transportation assistance to rehearsals for cho risters who would not otherwise be able to participate. A dedication to su pporting the artistic practice of professional musicians\, focus on traini ng the next generation of singers\, and commitment to making world-class m usic affordable and accessible to the public form the group’s charitable mandates. \nCapella Regalis Choirs regularly sing Choral Evensong in the  Cathedral Church of All Saints\, Halifax\, as part of the Cathedral's  Sundays at Four music series. The choirs also perform concerts around N ova Scotia and beyond in a busy September – June season\, and engage the public in many music outreach initiatives. Recent performances include J. S. Bach’s Easter Cantata BWV 4\, Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols\, Faur é’s Requiem\, Mozart’s Requiem\, Schütz's Musikalische Exequien\, Rutter’s Visions\, and the Paul Winter Consort’s Missa Gaia/Earth Mass \; annual tour programs of sacred and secular repertoire from across the W estern tradition\, and the popular\, annual Christmas series\, A Chorister ’s Christmas.  \nCapella Regalis has released five CDs: Songs of the S ea (June 2025)\, Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols (2023)\, Love Came Down: Carols for Christmas (2019)\, Greater Love (2017) and My Eyes for B eauty Pine (2014)\, as well as many online performance broadcasts. Discove r more www.capellaregalis.com. \nNICK HALLEY (Founder &\; Artistic Dir ector\, Boys Choir Director) is a celebrated and charismatic drummer/percu ssionist\, keyboardist\, composer\, and conductor. He is the Founder and A rtistic Director of Capella Regalis Choirs\, and Assistant Director of Mus ic at the Cathedral Church of All Saints\, Halifax. Nick founded and for e leven years (to 2021) directed The King’s Chorus\, a choral society for members of the King’s and Dalhousie University communities. Nick also se rved as Assistant Director of the University of King’s College Chapel Ch oir from 2008 to 2021. As an educator\, Nick is passionate about making mu sical excellence accessible to people of all ages and diverse backgrounds\ , and about helping people to – quite literally – find their voice.   \nIn 2012\, Nick was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Meda l in recognition of his contribution to Canada and Nova Scotia through the arts\, particularly for his work with Capella Regalis.  For the 2013-14 season\, Nick was broadcast across Canada as Host of CBC’s national radi o program Choral Concert.  \nAs a drummer and world percussionist\, Nick performs and records internationally with a wide range of musicians inclu ding American musical icon James Taylor\, the late Oscar Castro-Neves\, Di nuk Wijeratne\, Sandeep Das\, Chris Norman\, Old Man Luedecke\, Nazih Bori sh\, Kinan Azmeh\, Suzie LeBlanc\, Paul Halley\, and Viradouro Escola de S amba. He is featured on many recordings\, including a CD of his own compos itions performed by an ensemble of young jazz stars (Barnum Hill\, 2008). Nick teaches and performs at Boxwood Festival (Nova Scotia)\, Aldeburgh Fe stival (UK)\, Interlochen Summer Festival (USA)\, LAMP (Nova Scotia)\, Mor genland Festival (Germany)\, and in other workshop venues around the world . For more information\, visit nickhalley.com.  \nPAUL HALLEY (organ and piano) is a multi Grammy Award-winning composer\, keyboardist\, and chora l conductor. He is Director of Music at The Cathedral Church of All Saints in Halifax\, Nova Scotia.  Born in England\, Halley was raised in Ottawa \, Canada where he received his early musical training with The Men and Bo ys Choir of St. Matthew’s Anglican Church.  Awarded the organ scholarsh ip at Trinity College\, Cambridge\, Halley received his M.A. with prizes i n composition and performance\, and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.  Following four years post-graduate work in Canada and Jam aica\, W.I.\, Halley was appointed Organist and Choirmaster at The Cathedr al of St. John the Divine in New York City where he served for twelve year s from 1977-1989.  During his tenure at the Cathedral\, Halley collaborat ed with The Paul Winter Consort as principal writer and keyboardist on mul tiple Grammy Award-winning albums.  Halley later settled in rural Connect icut\, founded the children’s choir\, Chorus Angelicus\, and the adult e nsemble\, Gaudeamus\, and served as Director of Music at Trinity Episcopal Church\, Torrington\, CT\, where he inaugurated a Choral and Organ Schola rs program in conjunction with Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Mus ic.  In 2007\, Halley relocated to Halifax\, Nova Scotia to become Direct or of Music at the University of King’s College (to 2021)\, also becomin g Director of Music at All Saints Cathedral\, Halifax in 2015.  Halley’ s choral and instrumental compositions have been commissioned or licensed by such entities as Sony Entertainment\, the Boston Pops Orchestra\, CBC\, The Toronto Symphony\, and Canadian Brass\, and are distributed internati onally by Pelagosmusic (pelagosmusic.com).\nVANESSA HALLEY (Assistant Cond uctor) is the Executive Director of Capella Regalis and the Director of th e Capella Regalis Girls Choir. Vanessa has over 40 years of singing experi ence in chamber and church choirs in four different countries\, and music administration experience at both the non-profit and for-profit levels. Sh e is a professional chorister and a core member of the All SaintsCathedral Choir\, Halifax. Vanessa holds an undergraduate degree with High Distinct ion from Trinity College at the University of Toronto (2002)\, and graduat ed Juris Doctor Magna cum Laude from Western New England University School of Law (2006). She practiced law in Massachusetts\, USA\, for five years before making the move to Nova Scotia with her husband and young family to put music performance and education at the centre of their lives. 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