Mozart: 250

Friday, October 20 (8PM) at St. Thomas's Anglican Church

For Immediate Release: Toronto, October 2, 2006 –Toronto’s Exultate Chamber Singers initiate their 26^th anniversary season with music in celebration of the 250^th birthday of W.A. Mozart. This concert event features the finest choral music composed by the child prodigy including sacred choral and solo organ repertoire. Mozart 250 celebrates the mystery and brilliance of one of the world most known and loved composer!

The program, featuring the award-winning Exultate Chamber Singers with a chamber orchestra, under the direction of John Tuttle, is comprised of well-known choral favourites such as Ave Verum Corpus, Regina Coeli, Solemn Vespers, and Alma Dei Creatoris sung by the Exultate Chamber Singers.  As well as choral music there will be a performance of Mozart’s solo organ works; Fantasy in F minor performed by John Tuttle. The Church Sonatas 5 and 6 will be performed by one of Canada’s finest organists (who studied with John Tuttle), Marty Smyth.  The program will also feature soprano soloist, Teri Dunn.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) is the most recognized and arguable the most significant composer of the classical era. Although he only lived to see his 35^th birthday, Mozart began composing at a very young age and is recognized for his prolific and efficient ability as a composer.

Exultate [egg-zool-TAH-teh] has established a reputation for performing a broad range of fine music – sacred and secular, ancient and modern – at a very high standard. "This is a serious choir with a serious director", commented John Terauds in The Toronto Star (May 17, 2004). In April 2004, Exultate repeated its 2000 triumph at the CBC Competition for Amateur Choirs, taking TOP HONOURS in the Chamber Choir category and also being awarded the Canada Council's Healey Willan Grand Prize for the best performance of the competition across all categories.

Praised for its sensitive, precise and seamless performances, the group has produced four recordings. A Choral Flourish; Make We Joy!; and The Present Time. Exultate’s most recent recording, All Around The Circle was released in 2005. Recorded last summer at Glenn Gould Studio (CBC) in Toronto, the album is a collection of Canadian choral gems, and spotlights the group’s clear sound, impeccable ensemble and fine musicianship – qualities that have earned John Tuttle and his award-winning choir superlative reviews and accolades over the years.

Conductor John Tuttle founded the Exultate Chamber Singers in 1981. He is also organist and choirmaster of Saint Thomas's Anglican Church in Toronto and adjunct associate professor of organ at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto.  In September 2005, John was awarded an honorary Doctor of Sacred Letters degree from Trinity College, University of Toronto.

Mozart: 250
Exultate Chamber Singers with orchestra
John Tuttle, conductor

Friday, October 20th at 8PM
St. Thomas's Anglican Church: 383 Huron Street

Tickets: Regular $25; Senior $20; Student $15
Tickets may be ordered by calling 416-971-9229
or purchased at the door on the night of the concert.

Source:                Francine Labelle/FRANCINE LABELLE INK

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