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Au joli jeu, a Spicy Madrigal – on YouTube AND Spotify – In Person Auditions August 24th!
Ottawa choir, The Stairwell Carollers, perform Au joli jeu by Clément Jannequin. This version of Au joli jeu is on our Audite nova recording. All our music benefits local charities and our albums are available to buy on our Square store in both CD and MP3 formats....
O vos omnes by Tomas Luis de Victoria – YouTube live concert video
Having been on Youtube for over 12 years now, the Stairwell Carollers has fought a few battles over copyright. Not the silliest being ones for our Director, Pierre's own original compositions! Our Youtube choral music video is always from our concerts and any...
The Carollers are reaching out to tenors, sopranos and basses looking for a safe, fully vaccinated choral ensemble to sing with.
O Jesu Christe , Jacquet de Mantua – sung live by Ottawa’s Stairwell Carollers – YouTube
Ottawa choir, The Stairwell Carollers, perform “ O Jesu Christe” by Jacquet de Mantua.
O Jesu Christe is on our “Cantate Domino” recording. Net proceeds from our music sales benefit local charities. Buy our songs from our website in both CD and MP3 formats.
El Grillo – The Stairwell Carollers on Youtube – Auditions still on!
Fresh from our first concert since Xmas 2019, here is “ El Grillo” by Josquin des Prez sung by The Stairwell Carollers. This version of El Grillo is on our “Audite nova” recording. Net proceeds from our music benefits local charities and are available to buy from our...
Search for Voices featured in Manor Park Chronicle
Many many thanks to Wes Smiderle for the beautiful article in the May/June edition of the Manor Park Chronicle. He got us the entire page!
I’m sure this will be a lot of help in our search for male voices to top up the choir for the coming Christmas season.
A Great Come-Back Concert – Thanks from “Nirvana”
Thank you all for such a wonderful concert last night! The audience was
so appreciative of the performance. And most of all, thanks to Pete, for so many things — having the vision to create the choir in the first place and having so much artistic integrity that it gives us such a unique, well-balanced sound.
Sad Departure – The Stairwell Interviews
It’s not always that when a singer departs, she leaves a gaping hole in our hearts.
That rhymes! How fitting! Katherine style.
I’ll mostly miss her devilishly adorable sense of humour, her dancing with and miming out song lyrics, her fantastic crochet and knit creations, her beautiful photos – and, well, just HER.
A Message from Gabriel Lewis O’Conner
We just got this lovely email from Gabriel (Gabe) Lewis-O’Conner, who recently did a weekend of choral workshops with the Stairwell Carollers choir here in Ottawa. It was a really inspiring event in preparation towards our first public choral concert since Christmas 2019!
Ottawa Choral Concert this Sat June 4th 8:00pm
Alle psallite cum luya, loosely translated as ‘ let us sing together, alleluia!’ is more than just the name of one of the pieces we sing this season. In fact, it seems to encapsulate how we feel these days for several reasons.