New season for Near North Voices launches tonight

Near North Voices - North Bay’s University-Community Choir - begins its seventh season tonight in room F210 at Nipissing University and new members are welcome. Refreshments and registration start at 6p.m. with rehearsal starting at 7p.m.Near North Voices is open to all students, faculty and staff­ at Nipissing University and Canadore College, as well as members of the North Bay community. High school students are welcome. No audition is required, although some choral experience and music reading ability are helpful. Regular rehearsals are Wednesday nights, 7 – 9:15 p.m.
In the first part of the new season the choir will be preparing for a shared concert with Toronto-based professional choir The Elmer Iseler Singers, conducted by Lydia Adams, as part of the ongoing Sharing Our Choral Art concert series. The concert will take place on November 2 at 7:30p.m. at St. Andrew’s United Church in North Bay.
The Elmer Iseler Singers will also present an afternoon schools concert on October 31. The goal of the schools concert is to help revitalize choral singing in schools by introducing North Bay and area students to excellent choral singing, to increase interest in extra-curricular choral groups in their elementary schools and in taking vocal music as a course in high school. The schools concert is sponsored by Near North Voices with the support of a grant from the Ontario Arts Council, in partnership with the Near North District School Board.
The Elmer Iseler Singers is a twenty-voice professional chamber choir. Founded by the late Dr. Elmer Iseler in 1979, the Elmer Iseler Singers is one of Canada’s most illustrious professional choral ensembles. The choir has built an enviable international reputation through its concerts, broadcasts and recordings throughout Canada, the United States and on the international concert stage. Known for the unique beauty of their sound, the Elmer Iseler Singers brings to life exciting repertoire that spans 500 years of great choral music.