P ERFORMER B IOGRAPHIES CAPELLA REGALIS is a Canadian charity dedicated to training singers and performing choral music of the highest excellence. Founded in Nova Scotia by director Nick Halley in 2010 to build upon the best aspects of the European tradition of church choirs and to revitalize this method of music training in Canada, Capella Regalis now comprises a Boys Choir, Girls Choir, and professional Men's Choir (including Young Men with recently changed voices). Capella Regalis children’s choirs are free and open to any child who passes a basic audition. Capella Regalis Choirs regularly sing Choral Evensong in the Cathedral Church of All Saints, Halifax, as part of the Cathedral's Sundays at Four series. The choirs also perform concerts around Nova Scotia and beyond in a busy September – June season, and engage the public in many music outreach initiatives. Annual performances include tour programs of sacred and secular repertoire from across the Western tradition, and the popular, annual Christmas series, A Chorister's Christmas . In addition, each season Capella Regalis collaborates with other groups and world-class musicians in productions of major works such as J.S. Bach’s Easter Cantata BWV 4 , J.S. Bach's Saint Matthew Passion, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms , Bizet’s Carmen, Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols , Britten’s Saint Nicolas, Fauré ’ s Requiem , Handel’s Te Deum , Monteverdi’s Selva Morale e Spirituale, Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 , Orff’s Carmina Burana, the Paul Winter Consort’s Missa Gaia/Earth Mass , Rutter ’ s Visions , and Schütz's Musikalische Exequien. Capella Regalis has hosted other choirs and performing artists from the local community as well as from across Canada for special projects, and has completed seven performance tours in the Maritimes presented by Musique Royale. Capella Regalis has released three CDs: Love Came Down: Carols for Christmas (2019), Greater Love (2017) and My Eyes for Beauty Pine (2014), as well as many online performance broadcasts. Our philosophy: Access to excellence. In the performing arts world, a major barrier to participation is cost. At Capella Regalis, we are passionate about making professional-level choral music available to everyone because we know music has the power to transform the life of a person, whether that person is a child finding their voice or a listener finding beauty in a soul-stirring performance. We are committed to maintaining a level of excellence in choral music because we believe it is essential to the preservation and development of our cultural heritage. • Our free Probationers Program introduces children as young as six years old to the basics of music literacy and the joy of singing.
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