spine-tingly,
soul-touching sound.
Camerata Xara welcomes you
to our 2011/12 Season.
tenille goodspeed, production manager
Growing up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Tenille Goodspeed spent most of her extracurricular time in the music community. Starting at age five she began taking voice lessons, and by age nine was singing in school choir, church choir and the Elementary Girls Honour Choir.Continuing on this trend, she participated in Nova Scotia Youth Choir and Soundtrax, as well as attending the Nova Scotia Choral Federation summer choir camps. After graduating from Dalhousie University with a degree in neuroscience, Tenille is now working in arts administration as the General Manager of the Halifax Camerata Singers. She is a founding member and the production manager for Camerata Xara Young Women’s Choir. She hopes that this opportunity with allow her to continue to develop her skills in performance, music-making, and theatre, and to acquire more first-hand experience about the administrative and logistical side of the Nova Scotia arts community.
news
Xara will join the award-winning Halifax Camerata Singers with artistic director Jeff Joudrey in a family concert of Christmas music on Sunday, Dec. 4, 4 pm at First Baptist Church, Halifax.
Dylan Thomas’s celebrated story, A Child's Christmas in Wales will be woven throughout the performance. The nostalgic and popular story of a snowy Welsh Christmas is told from the view of a child and will be read by John Hancock, a familiar voice from CBC Radio.
The two choirs will present an enchanting selection of seasonal music from Canadian and international composers. Xara will present selections from John Rutter’s Dancing Day, as well as works by Claude Debussy, Samuel Barber, R. Murray Schafer, Finnish composer Heikki Sarmanto, and a Christina Murray arrangement of the traditional Swedish song, Stig in, Lucia, Stig in.
The audience will be invited to join the choirs for a singalong of familiar carols, accompanied by organist Shawn Whynot.
Tickets – $20 regular, $10 student – are available through our Online Ticket Wicket using PayPal or from choir members and at the door.