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Join us for a special evening concert on May 28 at 7pm featuring the Capella Regalis Choirs of Men, Boys and Girls from Halifax, Nova Scotia. 

The choir will perform traditional choral works by Healey Willan and Herbert Sumsion, and hits from their recent album Songs of the Sea, including several by Paul Halley, John Rutter and others. 

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ABOUT CAPELLA REGALIS CHOIRS

Capella Regalis Choirs is one of Canada’s leading professional choral music organizations, renowned for its world-class performances, recordings, and online broadcasts. Founded in Nova 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 November 2024, Capella Regalis launched its South Shore Program, based in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, which provides weekly singing training for children from Nova Scotia’s South Shore communities. All Capella Regalis children's choirs are free and open to any child who is keen to learn music, and Capella Regalis offers transportation assistance to rehearsals for choristers who would not otherwise be able to participate. A dedication to supporting the artistic practice of professional musicians, focus on training the next generation of singers, and commitment to making world-class music affordable and accessible to the public form the group’s charitable mandates. 

Capella 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 Nova 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, Fauré’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 Western tradition, and the popular, annual Christmas series, A Chorister’s Christmas.  

Capella Regalis has released five CDs: Songs of the Sea (June 2025), Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols (2023), Love Came Down: Carols for Christmas (2019), Greater Love (2017) and My Eyes for Beauty Pine (2014), as well as many online performance broadcasts. Discover more www.capellaregalis.com. 

NICK HALLEY (Founder & Artistic Director, Boys Choir Director) is a celebrated and charismatic drummer/percussionist, keyboardist, composer, and conductor. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Capella Regalis Choirs, and Assistant Director of Music at the Cathedral Church of All Saints, Halifax. Nick founded and for eleven years (to 2021) directed The King’s Chorus, a choral society for members of the King’s and Dalhousie University communities. Nick also served as Assistant Director of the University of King’s College Chapel Choir from 2008 to 2021. As an educator, Nick is passionate about making musical excellence accessible to people of all ages and diverse backgrounds, and about helping people to – quite literally – find their voice.  

In 2012, Nick was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal 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 radio program Choral Concert.  

As a drummer and world percussionist, Nick performs and records internationally with a wide range of musicians including American musical icon James Taylor, the late Oscar Castro-Neves, Dinuk Wijeratne, Sandeep Das, Chris Norman, Old Man Luedecke, Nazih Borish, Kinan Azmeh, Suzie LeBlanc, Paul Halley, and Viradouro Escola de Samba. He is featured on many recordings, including a CD of his own compositions performed by an ensemble of young jazz stars (Barnum Hill, 2008). Nick teaches and performs at Boxwood Festival (Nova Scotia), Aldeburgh Festival (UK), Interlochen Summer Festival (USA), LAMP (Nova Scotia), Morgenland Festival (Germany), and in other workshop venues around the world. For more information, visit nickhalley.com.  

PAUL HALLEY (organ and piano) is a multi Grammy Award-winning composer, keyboardist, and choral 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 Boys Choir of St. Matthew’s Anglican Church.  Awarded the organ scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, Halley received his M.A. with prizes in composition and performance, and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.  Following four years post-graduate work in Canada and Jamaica, W.I., Halley was appointed Organist and Choirmaster at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City where he served for twelve years from 1977-1989.  During his tenure at the Cathedral, Halley collaborated with The Paul Winter Consort as principal writer and keyboardist on multiple Grammy Award-winning albums.  Halley later settled in rural Connecticut, founded the children’s choir, Chorus Angelicus, and the adult ensemble, Gaudeamus, and served as Director of Music at Trinity Episcopal Church, Torrington, CT, where he inaugurated a Choral and Organ Scholars program in conjunction with Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music.  In 2007, Halley relocated to Halifax, Nova Scotia to become Director of Music at the University of King’s College (to 2021), also becoming 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 internationally by Pelagosmusic (pelagosmusic.com).

VANESSA HALLEY (Assistant Conductor) is the Executive Director of Capella Regalis and the Director of the Capella Regalis Girls Choir. Vanessa has over 40 years of singing experience in chamber and church choirs in four different countries, and music administration experience at both the non-profit and for-profit levels. She is a professional chorister and a core member of the All SaintsCathedral Choir, Halifax. Vanessa holds an undergraduate degree with High Distinction from Trinity College at the University of Toronto (2002), and graduated 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. From 2012 to 2021, in addition to her work with Capella Regalis, Vanessa managed the Chapel Choir at the University of King's College.