Past Performances of The Richard Eaton Singers
2007 / 2008 Season
Thursday, October 4, 2007
A Choral Bouquet
(Part of the Edmonon Symphony Orchestra's Robbins Lighter Classics series)
Winspear Centre for Music:
Mozart – Ave verum corpus
Wagner – Entrance of the Guests from Tannhäuser
Copland – Stomp Your Foot! from The Tender Land
Bizet – Les Voici! Voici La Quadrille from Carmen
Thompson – Alleluia
Verdi – Anvil Chorus from Il trovatore
Glick – The Hour has Come
Bruce Hangen, conductor
Richard Eaton Singers (Leonard Ratzlaff, music director)
Cantilon Chamber Choir (Heather Johnson, music director)
Thursday, November 22, 2007
RES Fall Concert - Choir and Brass
Winspear Centre for Music
Bob Chilcott - Now thank we
Randol Bass - Gloria
Heinrich Schütz - Psalm 150
Patrick Hawes - O Lord, our Governor
Selections from the new RES Christmas CD
Leonard Ratzlaff and John Brough, conductors
The Edmonton Youth Choir (John Wiebe, music director)
Jeremy Spurgeon, organ
The Festival Brass
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
(Part of the Edmonon Symphony Orchestra's celebration of the Christmas season)
Winspear Centre for Music:
Randol Bass - Glad Tidings
Randol Bass - Gloria
Steven Reineke, conductor
Richard Eaton Singers (Leonard Ratzlaff, music director)
Leonard Ratzlaff, narrator
Friday/Saturday, April 4,5 2008
(A presentation of Edmonton Opera and Alberta Ballet)
Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium:
W.A. Mozart: Requiem K626
Conducted by Peter Dala
Edmonton Opera Chorus
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Choreographed by Jean Grand-Maître
Staged by Brian Deedrick
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Music in Times of Conflict
Winspear Centre for Music:
John Estacio - The Houses Stand Not Far Apart
Karl Jenkins - The Armed Man-A Mass For Peace
Kathryn Domoney, soprano
Jennifer Enns Modolo, mezzo-soprano
John Huck, tenor
Peter McGillivray, baritone
Feras Abuqirah, muezzin
The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Ratzlaff, conductor
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Dvorák: Mass in D major
West End Christian Reformed Church:
Allan Bevan: Singers to Come
Gabriel Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
Leoš Janácek: Otcenáš (The Lord's Prayer)
Antonín Dvorák: Mass in D major op. 86
Jeremy Spurgeon, organ/piano
Nora Bumanis, harp
Leonard Ratzlaff, conductor
2006 / 2007 Season
Friday/Saturday, December 22/23, 2006 at 8 pm,
Handel's Messiah with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Erin Wall, soprano
Marie-Nicole Lemieus, mezzo-soprano
Benjamin Butterfield, tenor
Joshua Hopkins, bass
William Eddins, ESO Music Director William Eddins, conducting
60 members of the Richard Eaton Singers participated in this performance of the uncut version of the Messiah.
Saturday, December 16, 2006 8 pm,
The RES Christmas Concert this year featured a brass ensemble led by Russell Whitehead, trumpet and frequent player with the ESO, Jeremy Spurgeon, organ, and Leanne Regehr, piano. Sharing the conducting duties for the concert were Conductor and Music Director Leonard Ratzlaffwith and Associate Conductor John Brough.
The repertoire included a Magnificat setting by Ruth Watson Henderson (whose cantata From Darkness to Light we performed two seasons ago), American composer Daniel Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata and a range of carol settings for unaccompanied choir, choir and organ, choir and piano four-hands, and choir and brass by Andrew Ager, Kenneth Leighton, Mark Sirett and Mac Wilberg.
Sunday, December 10, 2 pm,
In a joint concert raising concert for the Make-a-Wish Foundation, the choir performed with the Royal Canadian Artillery Band and sang a number of the David Willcocks carol arrangements from Carols for Choirs as well as a number of other pieces. The concert included guest vocalist Kelly Alanna, organist Jeremy Spurgeon and Master of Ceremonies Bridget Ryan.
Sunday, November 26, 2006
As guests of the Edmonton Youth Orchestra the Choir performed William Walton’s Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario with EYO senior orcherstra and
Handel’s Coronation anthem, Zadok the Priest with the EYO intermediate orchestra.
2005 / 2006 Season
April 30, 2006
Elgar's Dream of Gerontius, with the ESO, tenor Scot Weir as Gerontius, mezzo-soprano Kimberly Barber, baritone Daniel Lichti, and conductor Leonard Ratzlaff, celebrating Maestro Ratzlaff's 25th year with the Richard Eaton Singers. RES production.
February 5, 2006
Haydn's Te Deum in C, Mozart's Vesperae solennes de Confessore, K. 339, and Beethoven's Mass in C, Op. 86, with The Alberta Baroque Ensemble, a quartet of outstanding young Albertan soloists: soprano Jolaine Kerley, mezzo-soprano Lisa Hornung, tenor Tim Shantz, baritone Paul Grindlay, and conductor Leonard Ratzlaff. This is a RES production in celebration of the 250th birthday of W.A. Mozart.
December 22, 2005
A Lightly Classical Christmas, with conductor Timothy Vernon, as guests of the ESO
December 16-17, 2005
Handel's Messiah, with conductor Gary Thor Wedow, soprano Linda Perillo, mezzo-soprano Anita Krause, tenor Colin Ainsworth, and bass Phillip Addis, as guests of the ESO
November 11-12, 2005
Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, with conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, soprano Karina Gauvin and baritone Nathan Berg, as guests of the ESO
