← About the Saskatoon Children's Choir
Thirty years of songs, friendships, and memories! We are grateful to connect our past with our present, as we celebrate 30 years of choristers in the SCC this spring.
Find out what we've been up to since our inception.
Calgary Girls Choir: Viva and SCC Apprentice Choir participate in a one-day Festival, with a workshop and evening concert
Concert choir, with guest performers in a fundraising concert to support newcomer families sponsored by St. Martin’s United Church
International Festival of Collective Singing Traditions
Invited Guest Choir at the inaugural Festival
Kathaumixw “Choir of the World” Award
First Place: Children’s Choir competition
First Place: Folk and Cultural Traditions competition
Second Place: Contemporary competition
Our Apprentice choir performs as street children in Bizet’s Carmen.
Commissioned mini-opera from Peter Tiefenbach. It’s all about ducks, platypuses and friendship
Online Christmas concert, available December 20, 2021 to January 2, 2022
Christmas YouTube video – click here to view.
Don’t Laugh at Me, arr. Peter Tiefenbach
“Cantare” is an adult treble choir comprised of SCC alumni.
Toronto Treble Festival with Zimfira Poloz and Henry Leck co-conductors
Two concerts at the invitational Indian River Festival in Prince Edward Island
Two concerts with Aella Choir from Ottawa in Halifax and Truro, Nova Scotia
Commissioned mini-opera from Peter Tiefenbach
Apprentice choir performs as street children
Joint concert and workshop with the Canadian Chamber Choir and the Kamala Youth Choir
Preparatory and Apprentice choirs participate
The Saskatoon Children’s Choir sponsored a refugee family from Eritrea for a year.
Second Place (Children’s Choirs)
Fourth Place (Gospel)
Performances in Pompeii, Naples, Rome and Ravenna
All three choirs participate
Fundraising concert to support our “Welcome Home” Initiative to sponsor a refugee family to Saskatoon
Participation with Eleanor McCain on her CD, featuring 13 orchestras from around Canada and other well-known Canadian performers.
Joint concert with the Vancouver Chamber Singers
Gold Medal (Children’s Choirs)
Gold Medal (Folklore)
Performances in Cologne Cathedral, Hanover, Magdeburg and Leipzig
Members of the Concert choir perform as spirits in Magic Flute.
Concert Choir
Second Place (Children’s Folk Choir)
Second Place (Cultural Showcase)
Concerts in Greystones, Dublin, Corwen, Kenilworth and London
Apprentice Choir performed as street children in Bizet’s opera Carmen, a production of the Saskatoon Opera.
“Stars for Saskatchewan” Concert Series performances in Estevan and Yorkton
Deep Peace, Healing Light by Leonard Ens
Concert Choir performs with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Preparatory Choir
Apprentice Choir
Performance tour and humanitarian project
Canadian Lutheran World Relief “In recognition of SCC service to those in need around the world.”
The choir was accompanied to South Africa by a four-member CBC crew, resulting in award winning radio and television documentaries. Shauna Powers, Christopher Haynes, Benoit Ferradini and Denis Grenier.
Concert Choir performs as guest artists
Apprentice Choir
Preparatory Choir
Performance
Concert Choir performs with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana and Arvo Pärt’s Our Garden
World Premiere of curling mini opera Strangers in the House, composed by Peter Tiefenbach, Mark McCondach and Phoebe Voigts
Strangers in the House
Shawna Powers, producer; Christopher Haynes, recording engineer
Cantus Populi
Apprentice Choir
Apprentice Choir performs with the Saskatoon Chamber Singers
First Place (treble choirs)
Summa Cum Laude Award of the City of Vienna
Austria and Czech Republic
Apprentice Choir
Flying Colours, by Stephen Hatfield
Regina, Saskatchewan
Joint concert and workshops
Apprentice and Concert Choirs
St. John’s Newfoundland
In support of the global fight against HIV and AIDS
Yo Te Nombro Libertad, arr. Peter Tiefenbach
Concert Choir performs as guest artists
Concert Choir performs as guest artists in Yorkton
Winnipeg
Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China
Out of the Stars, by Peter Tiefenbach
Saskatoon and Regina
CBC Radio broadcast (Shauna Powers, producer and Christopher Haynes, sound engineer) received the National CBC Award for best documentary in 2005.
On Prairie Wings
Concert Choir performs as guest artists
Apprentice Choir
Preparatory Choir
Second Place (Children’s Choir)
Second Place (Folk)
Elmer Iseler Award for performance of Canadian work
Awarded by the Canadian Music Educators Association
Participated in “United in Song” Youth Choir Festival, Regina, Saskatchewan
In support of the international campaign to ban land mines
France and Spain
Canadian/American Peace Gardens
Fields Interrupted
First Place (Children’s Choir)
Fourth Place (Folk)
Isabelle Mills Award (Apprentice Choir)
In support of the international campaign to ban land mines
First Place (folk)
Elmer Iseler Award for performance of a Canadian work
Isabelle Mills Award (Concert Choir)
Represented Saskatchewan in Unisong Festival, National Arts Centre, Ottawa
Participated in youth choir festivals in Moose Jaw and North Battleford
Learn about our four choirs: Preparatory, Apprentice, Concert, and Cantare.
Meet the dedicated team that makes it all possible.
Why we do what we do and what we believe in.
Our journey from its beginnings to the present day.
Answers to common questions about the Saskatoon Children's Choir.
Join the Saskatoon Children's Choir and be part of our family.
