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Chebucto Community Singers seek new members!

The Chebucto Community Singers are looking for new choir members. This is a mixed choir of 65 members and has enjoyed 44 years of making music together. They sing a broad range of repertoire from classical to Broadway.  The choir rehearses from 7-9 on Tuesdays at Oxford School, 6364 North Street, Halifax. The Choir Director, Louise Grinstead, would like anyone who may be interested in being a member of this choir to come to our first rehearsal of the year on September 25, between 6:15 and 6:45 for an audition. She is mostly looking for basses and tenors but will accept sopranos and altos who have choral experience. Those auditioning should have some experience in choral singing and be fluent sight readers or have a strong ear for music. For more information on the choir, please contact Sheila  Andrecyk 902-445-5768. 

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Cantabile Choral Society of Truro – new singers wanted!

The Cantabile Choral Society prides itself on being a place where all are invited to make high quality music in a friendly, collaborative and supportive atmosphere. Cantabile choirs perform regularly in concert and are committed to enriching our community, including charitable and musical outreach opportunities, supporting the Truro Music Festival, and working with people of all ages and stages.

The Cantabile Society is made up of four choirs:
Cantabile Singers, a mixed voice adult choir committed to excellence in choral performance
Cantabile Boys’ Choir for boys in grades 3-7/voice change (now in its 10th anniversary season!)
Cantabile Impact!, our mixed voice youth choir committed to effecting change through song
and this year, the Society welcomes the Cantabile Truro Youth Singers, for girls in grades 4-8, into the fold!

In September, all choirs begin rehearsals at First United Church (711 Prince Street, Truro):
Cantabile Singers on Mon., Sept. 3, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Cantabile Truro Youth Singers on Fri., Sept. 7, 3:45-5:00 p.m.
Cantabile Impact! on Sun., Sept. 9, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Cantabile Boys’ Choir on Tues., Sept. 11, 4:15-5:30 p.m.

For more information, please feel free to contact us at cantabiletruroinfo@gmail.com, or by contacting a member of our artistic team!

Cantabile’s Conductors:
Chris Bowman (Artistic Director/Cantabile Singers) – 902-324-1301
Brenna Conrad (Cantabile Impact!) – 902-956-1018
Sarah Glinz (Cantabile Boys’ Choir/Truro Youth Singers) – 902-956-1018
Ann Legere (Cantabile Truro Youth Singers) – 902-895-6532

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Nova Scotia Choral Federation Annual General Meeting

43rd Annual General Meeting
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
6:30 pm
Berwick United Church Camp
115 Commercial Street, Berwick, NS
(To include dinner (6:00 PM) please RSVP nscfadmin@nscf.ns.ca or 902 423-4688)
Election of Officers
Each year the Nominating Committee selects a slate of nominees for their individual skills, expertise and their
willingness to devote the time required for committee work and Federation business. The committee also strives for
the widest possible provincial representation. With these guidelines in mind, we will present the following slate of
nominees for the two-year term of 2018 to 2019 at the Nova Scotia Choral Federation’s Annual General Meeting. If
you are interested in nominating someone to our Board of Directors the deadline for nominations is August 7, 2018.
The procedure is as follows:
Members will submit motions of nominations any time up to 14 days prior to the Annual General Meeting. Motions
must be made in writing, signed by the mover and the seconder, and delivered to the Federation office. The nominee
must deliver signed acceptance by the deadline and provide biographical information suitable for reproduction or
distribution to Annual General Meeting delegates. Please review the following biographies of our current nominees
for the 2017/18 – 2018/19 term as listed here.

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CALL FOR APPLICANTS to lead MUSICIANSHIP at YOUTH CHOIR CAMP

We are in search of an individual to lead our musicianship classes at Youth Choir Camp.

This includes leading two 45 minute sessions daily Monday to Friday excluding Wednesday (1 class on Wed.) during the week, in which groups of singers will be lead through musical skill development.
The instructor will plan three 45 minute lecture sessions, which will be presented a total of 3 times each, that will focus on but are not limited to the following topics:


Ear Training
Sight reading
Music History
Conducting
Vocal improvisation
Audition preparation
Jazz Techniques
or other special topics

Applicants should have experience in leading large group instruction and have musical training relating to voice, theory, conducting, choral pedagogy or instruction.

Remuneration includes room and board if applicable and a payable fee.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please submit a resume to Kaitlin at programs@nscf.ns.ca

Application session closes July 4th, 2018

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NSCF seeks Sing Summer Camp Cook/Kitchen Supervisor

JOB POSTING

Sing Summer Camp Cook/Kitchen Supervisor
Berwick August 9-25

As kitchen supervisor and head cook, you will be leading a small team (2-3 cooks) 3-4 servers/dishwashers, ordering and maintaining stock/inventory within budget, preparing meals and overseeing the day to day running of the kitchen, including cleaning the equipment, checking supplies and rotating food stock. You’ll be responsible for catering to a limited number of special diets such as, vegetarian, celiac, and gluten free. Sing summer camps provide three meals a day for our clientele – breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as two evening events with cheese, crackers and vegetable and dip. It is a 16-day contract and room and board are provided on site. We are looking for somebody who is comfortable in a camp kitchen environment, a variety of equipment (camp) and who likes to be hands on.

Key responsibilities:

• Ordering and organizing the inventory storage

• Helping to plan menus, apportion ingredients and use food surpluses • Meal preparation and cooking

• Making sure the kitchen is a safe and hygienic place to work

• Managing the kitchen help 1-2 prep cooks and volunteer dishwashers and dining room servers

• Control portion costs by working out the number of portions per food batch

What sort of hours will I work?

This is a 17-day camp with 5 programs

• Program 1 (NSYC) will involve feeding up to 45 young adults three meals a day Friday to Sunday.

• Program 2 (CCW) adds up to 25 persons for meal times on Sunday and Monday morning breakfast.

• Program 3 Monday dinner to Saturday Lunch involves feeding up to 100 adults

• Program 4&5 Sunday dinner to Saturday Lunch involves two sittings for each mealtime with approximately 100 meals per sitting. There is a half hour between sittings and the clients are children and chaperones.

Experience

• Experience of working in a fast paced kitchen chef

• Some management experience will help

• Ability to multitask

Qualifications

• Health and safety or food hygiene qualifications are crucial

Others Requirements

• Ability to work long days and weekends

• Ability to work in fast paced environment

• Attention to details in work is important. • Food and safety certificate. – WHMIS certified

To apply, contact:  programs@nscf.ns.ca

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Unison Festival – Halifax 2022

Unison Halifax 2022

The Unison Festival began in Edmonton in 1998, after the then artistic director of Edmonton Vocal Minority, David Garber, suggested a weekend choral festival to bring together Canadian LGBTQ choruses, who may not otherwise be able to attend the week-long GALA festivals that take place in the United States. Quickly gaining the support of the Edmonton LGBTQ community (the city’s Pride Day was even moved in order to coincide with the festival), the inaugural Canadian GALA Choruses Festival ’98 proved to be a resounding success, bringing together 15 choruses from all across Canada, eager to return for another festival. Since then the festival has been presented every four years. During the 2010 festival, the decision was made to create a formal national Unison organization, in order to develop and maintain formal guidelines regarding the hosting of futures Unison events. Unison has taken place in in Edmonton in 1998, Toronto in 2002, Vancouver in 2006, Winnipeg in 2010, Ottawa in 2014 and most recently in Calgary this past weekend. In Calgary, the Women Next Door, a Halifax based chorus, presented and won the bid to host Unison 2022 in Halifax! Partnering with the Nova Scotia Choral Federation, Choirs for Change and Xara Choral Theatre Unison will take place in Halifax as The Women Next Door celebrate their 30 Anniversary. Artistic Director Willi Zwozdesky, Vancouver, is no stranger to us on the east coast and is very excited that Unison 2022 will be hosted Nova Scotia!

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Thanks for the Tune ees

NSCF would like to thank the following choirs for there support of this year’s Toss-a-Tune-ee campaign.  Donations this year total $1728.45 and will help support the our provincial youth choir and our National Youth Choir quartet.

Aeolian Singers
Annapolis Valley Honour Choir
Aylesford United Church Choir
Cape Breton Chorale
Coastal Voices
Dalhousie Health Professions Choir
Dartmouth Choral Society
Digby Choral Federation
Enchor East
First United Church Choir
Halifax Camerata Singers
King’s Chorale
North Mountain Chorus
Seton Canata Choir
South Shore Chorale

If you would still like to Toss-Tune-ee with your choir – it is never too late to participate.

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March Break Office Hours

The NSCF office will be open the following hours from March 12 – 16, 2018

Monday – Closed |

Tuesday – Thursday  8:30 – 11:30 |

Friday – 1:30 – 3:30 |

We will return to regular office hours Monday March 19, 2018.