2024-2025 Season
TrebleFest Concert
Sunday, April 27, 2025
4 PM (ET)
St. Matthew's Anglican Church, 130 Glebe Avenue, Ottawa
ADMISSION IS FREE
Aella is pleased to be taking part in TrebleFest, a choral festival celebrating the beauty and vibrant sounds of upper voices choirs in Ottawa. It will feature host choir Hypatia’s Voice alongside Aella, Cantiamo Choirs of Ottawa, the OCC Chamber Choir, and individual sopranos and altos from across the region. TrebleFest also welcomes Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt, Professor Emerita at the University of Toronto, as guest Director and Clinician!
Join us on Sunday, April 27 for this FREE concert!
Selections performed by Aella will include:
Shireen Abu-Khader’s poignant re-imagining of the Syrian protest song Lao Rahal Soti
Francis Poulenc’s meditative and mysterious setting of Ave verum corpus
Singkap Siaga by Tracy Wong, a fiery showstopper inspired by the Malay tradition of shadow puppet theatre
Stones, Scrolls & Stories
Sunday, June 8, 2025
4:30 PM (ET)
First Baptist Church, 140 Laurier Ave West, Ottawa
**Admission to this concert is by donation / pay-what-you-can**
Join us for a journey through the ages, as we perform some of humanity's most ancient texts and music in a celebration of storytelling and song sharing throughout history.
Our concert's earliest work dates to the 1st century C.E.: Joanne Metcalf's setting of the Seikilos epitaph -- an Ancient Greek inscription from a gravestone, which constitutes one of the world's oldest surviving musical compositions.
The most "recent" song on the program is Allison Girvan's arrangement of the French-Canadian Folksong, "V’la l’bon vent". It was sung by Voyageurs and Coureurs du Bois as they worked, over 300 years ago.
You'll also hear settings of 12th-century hymns by Hildegard von Bingen, 13th-century Persian poetry by Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, and much, much more!
Aella Choir will continue to monitor public health guidance and may update concert requirements at any time, based on information from public health authorities.