Mount Royal Kantorei wins peace trophy at this year’s cork international choral festival
May 2025 - Mount Royal Kantorei is thrilled and proud to take home the Peace Trophy at this year’s Cork International Choral Festival in Cork, Ireland.
Following a week of performances in some of Ireland’s most iconic venues, including Galway Cathedral, Cork City Hall, The Church Dublin and Saint Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Mount Royal Kantorei secured the prestigious award bestowed annually on the choir which best embraces the spirit of the festival. What a way to celebrate our choir’s 30th anniversary year!
Thank you to everyone who has supported us on this tour and beyond and to the Cork International Choral Festival for putting on a world-class choral celebration and giving us a platform to bring Canadian artists and composers to an international audience.
Celebrating 30 years of choral excellence.
In 2025, our choir celebrates thirty years of choral excellence and contribution to our community.
Over the past three decades, Mount Royal Kantorei has performed more than 700 pieces of music to live audiences and virtual ones. We pride ourselves in helping people connect to choral music and find meaning in the words, rhythms, and feeling that we bring to each performance.
As we look forward to the next 30 years, we are reminded of the joy that comes from making music together and the privilege we hold in bringing that music to others.
So, here’s to the future. Here’s to us. And here’s to you, our audience.
We are forever grateful for your support and encouragement and we hope to see you at our next performance!
New Video: The Sacred veil
In support of Ovarian Cancer Canada and Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month: Mount Royal Kantorei presents The Sacred Veil Movement I: The Veil Opens
Written by Eric Whitacre and Charles Anthony Silvestri, The Sacred Veil is a vast and deep body of work inspired by the death of Silvestri’s wife, Julie, who died in 2005 at the age of 36.
Each year, 3,000 women in Canada are diagnosed with ovarian cancer. This recording is dedicated to each of them and their loved ones. For more information, visit www.ovariancanada.org
Special thanks to: Morgan Music, Media Pop Films, and our funders – Calgary Arts Development and Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
VOICES WITH PURPOSE
Based in Calgary, Alberta, Mount Royal Kantorei is the flagship chorus of Mount Royal Conservatory and one of Canada’s most celebrated classical choirs. United by values of diversity, inclusivity and compassion, our mixed-voice, auditioned choir of 90 members has been making music for 30 years. READ MORE HERE.
Land acknowledgment
In the spirit of reconciliation, respect, and truth, Kantorei Choral Society offers this acknowledgement to the people, land, and ancestors of Moh’kins’tsis and the surrounding areas. These lands are the home of the Siksikaisitapi, the Blackfoot Confederacy of the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai Nations; the Îyârhe Nakoda who include the Goodstoney Nation, Chiniki, and Bearspaw Nations; the Tsuut’ina Nation; and the Metis Nation Region 5 and 7. We acknowledge this land as the home of the ancestors of these nations and as the home of generations to come. We honor and respect their past, present, and future. We acknowledge the interconnectedness of the land, animals, and people made sacred by time-honoured traditions and oral history. We come with thanks for the stewardship of this land by the ancestors and the members of these communities today. We Kantorei, come with respect and hope for all who live, work, sing and play here.
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