Kyiv Chamber Choir to tour Canada (09/26/04)

Kyiv Chamber Choir to tour Canada

TORONTO - Platinum Concerts International (PCI) has announced the first-ever Canadian concert tour of one of the world's best choirs - the Kyiv Chamber Choir.

This tour includes concerts in 14 cities in five provinces across Canada from November 3 to 28. Concerts will take place in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary Regina, Saskatoon, Yorkton, Thunder Bay, Sudbury, Windsor, London and Hamilton.

Tour sponsors are the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko and the Buduchnist Credit Union. These concerts are also being supported by provincial Choral Music Federations and local Ukrainian community organizations.

Individual concert tickets will go on sale in mid-September and will be available through TicketMaster, in Buduchnist Credit Union branches and at each concert venue.

The Kyiv Chamber Choir's performances will take place in concert halls and in churches and cathedrals that feature outstanding acoustics, where quality choral musicians perform when they are in these communities.

The Weston Recital Hall in Toronto's Center for the Arts and the Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal are examples of the high-quality venues, with great acoustics that attract music audiences, that are reserved for this concert tour.

The concerts will feature the best Ukrainian music composed over the past 1,000 years - arranged and presented with the unique style and outstanding presentation skills of this award-winning choir that regularly attracts sold-out audiences to its concerts in Great Britain and across Europe. Because the Toronto and Ottawa concerts also include Canada's Elmer Iseler Singers, this inaugural PCI concert tour features two of the best chamber choirs in the world.

PCI will also organize workshops with high-quality local choirs and provide their conductors with a most essential element - scores of Ukrainian choral works - in a program that will benefit both countries and cultures in this meaningful way.

The Kyiv Chamber Choir concert series was developed by PCI's principals: Andrew Witer, executive producer and Ernie McCullough, executive director. They are assisted by an advisory board experienced in media relations; tour planning and management; concert production; and cultural and community relations.

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