Concert Schedule 2025/26

Here Among the Evergreens

Sunday, November 23 2025 at 3 p.m.
MacNeill Baptist Church, 1145 King Street West, Hamilton
Purchase tickets online or at the door | $25 ($15 for under age 35)

Let now the chimneys blaze
And cups o’erflow with wine;
Let well-tuned words amaze
With harmony divine. (Thomas Campion)

As Advent approaches, Strata Vocal Ensemble presents a program to embrace winter’s eve. Featuring John Rutter’s cycle “When Icicles Hang,” with words by Campion, Shakespeare, and anon., we will also sing “Exultate Justi in Domino” by Italian composer, teacher, and Franciscan friar Lodovico Viadana and Scarlatti’s beautiful “Ad te, Domine levavi.” Two beautiful settings of the Magnificat, by Andrea Gabrieli and C. V. Stanford, are also on the program, along with the young Canadian composer Emile Deedes-Vincke’s “Winter.” Come and let your hearts be warmed by song as we usher in
the Advent season!

Water Flowing

April 19 2026 at 3 p.m.
MacNeill Baptist Church, 1145 King Street West, Hamilton

As Earth Day approaches, Strata presents a program to honour the beauty around us, including Brahms’s “Schaffe in Mir, Gott, ein Rein Herz” (“Make Me a Clean Heart, O God”) and “Funf Gesange” (“Five Songs”); and Britten’s “Five Flower Songs.” The theme of water emerges in lovely motets by Victoria, Cardoso, and a favourite by Palestrina, and continues in “Water” by Hamilton’s own Katerina Gimon, and Eric Whitacre’s touching “Seal Lullaby.” Arrangements of “Loch Lomond” by Jonathan Quick and “Flow Gently Sweet Afton” by Sarah MacDonald round out an afternoon of songs to welcome spring and celebrate the exquisite and fragile beauty of Earth.

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November 26 2023

The Big Sing!

Friday Dec 9 2022 at 7 – 9 pm