Music of Hungary

Matthew Larkin, organ & piano
Ralitsa Tcholakova, violin
Friday, May 10, 7:30 p.m.
St. Francis of Assisi 20 Fairmont Ave.

Appropriately, the main work is Laudes organi, by Zoltan Kodaly, one of the most important composers from Hungary. His exciting Matra Pictures – evoking peasant life – will also be sung.

Kodaly used to collect folk songs with his good friend, Bela Bartok, so we’ll perform the latter’s Four Slovak Folk Songs, in the original language. We are also proud to present Bulgarian/Canadian violinist Ralitsa Tcholakova – who with Matthew Larkin, will perform Bartok’s Romanian Folk Dances.

Monteverdi & the Italian Baroque

Sunday February 25, 2024 4:00 p.m.
St. Matthew’s Anglican Church 150 Glebe Ave

Claudio Monteverdi was a Renaissance master – his opera Coronation of Poppea and his Vespers were groundbreaking in the musical world. We will be presenting his pyrotechnical ‘Gloria’ in 7 parts, and his cheerful ‘Beatus Vir,’ among other works. Seventeen Voyces is thrilled to welcome back the Ottawa Baroque Consort, led by cellist Olivier Henchiri.

Christmas with Seventeen Voyces

Two performances
Lucile Hildesheim, harp

Saturday, December 16, 2023 7:30 p.m.
St. Matthew’s Anglican Church 150 Glebe Ave.

Sunday, December 17, 4:00 p.m.
St. Bartholomew’s Church 125 MacKay Street

Our Christmas concert has a slight twist this year – there will be a handful of secular songs with a jazz tinge to them – including fine a cappella arrangements of Let it Snow, I’ll be Home for Christmas, and Jingle Bell Rock. But the pièce de résistance will be that holiday favourite – You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch!

Phantom of the Opera

Matthew Larkin, organ
Friday, October 20, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 21, 7:30 p.m. 
St. Matthew’s Anglican Church 150 Glebe Ave.

‘Phantom of the Opera’ – the 1925 silent film starring Lon Chaney, the weekend before Halloween. Matthew Larkin accompany the choir in works such as Messe solennelle by the brilliant blind organist, Jean Langlais, and fellow French composers, Poulenc and Berlioz

Motets and Madrigals

Sunday, May 7, 2023 – 7:30 p.m
St. Matthew’s Anglican Church
217 First Ave, Ottawa, ON K1S 2G5

A concert of favourite madrigals, motets and anthems – fast becoming known as the ‘doppelganger concert’ due to the pairing of ancient and modern titles of the
same name.

Nonsense & Nursery Rhymes

Saturday, March 4, 2023 – 7:30 p.m
St. Matthew’s Anglican Church
217 First Ave, Ottawa, ON K1S 2G5

• A superb wind quintet playing a parody of Nursery Rhymes
• soprano Whitney Sloan singing ‘Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
• Matthew Larkin playing the ‘Humpty Dumpty Blues’
• Seventeen Voyces singing ‘Java Jive’ and John Rutter’s take on nursery rhymes

Christmas with Thirteen Strings

Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Dominion Chalmers United Church
355 Cooper St, Ottawa, ON K2P 0G8

On Tuesday, December 6, we will be guests of Thirteen Strings for their annual Christmas concert at the Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre.  Repertoire includes two Bach cantatas and ‘Fantasia on Christmas Carols’ by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Peter Pan

Friday, October 21 and Saturday, October 22/7:30 Southminster United Church.

The film was projected on a large screen and accompanied by live choral music, organ virtuoso Matthew Larkin, and ‘faerie harpist’ Lucile Hildesheim. 

Based on Scottish novelist J.M. Barrie’s ever-popular children’s story about a mischievous boy who spends his eternal childhood on an island called Neverland, the film stars the whimsical Betty Bronson – chosen by the author himself.