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2025 - 2026 Season

Welcome to our 2025 - 2026 choral concert season, featuring a joyful and festive Christmas concert, performance with a big band, and a celebration of women composers.

Concert Lineup

Tickets coming soon!

A Ceremony of Christmas

Saturday December 6, 2025
7:30 pm
Runnymede United Church
432 Runnymede Road
Toronto ON M6S 2Y8

Join us for a joyful and festive Christmas concert featuring Britten’s celebrated A Ceremony of Carols with guest harpist Erica Goodman, Poulenc’s Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël, and Louis Applebaum’s Carols of French Canada.

A new seasonal piece by author Sarah Henstra and artistic director Henry Renglich will also be premièred.

The evening will conclude with traditional carols and a lively audience singalong — the perfect way to kick off the holiday season!

Sing It High - Swing It Low

Saturday March 28, 2026
7:30 pm
Humber Valley United Church
76 Anglesey Blvd.
Etobicoke ON M9A 3C1

Celebrate the big band era with a lively evening of music by Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, the Gershwins and more.

A classic lineup of saxes, trumpets, trombones, bass, drums and piano will be led by Juno award-winning drummer Ernesto Cervini.

Featuring solos, duets, ensembles and the full choir, this concert promises a rousing evening of toe-tapping, hum-along fun!

World Beloved: A Celebration of Women Composers

Saturday June 6, 2026
7:30 pm
Runnymede United Church
432 Runnymede Road
Toronto ON M6S 2Y8

Delight in our celebration of women composers. The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, composed by Carol Barnett, blends traditional mass movements with the sparkle of bluegrass ballads and instruments.

Works by other contemporary women composers, including Canadians Ruth Watson Henderson and Eleanor Daly, will be featured.

Songs composed by ECC performer Lauren Halász and arranged by Colin McMahon will be showcased. The evening culminates in the lively and humorous When I Become an Old Woman by Sherry Blevins.

Testimonials

  • "It was an absolute delight to experience your concert with all the amazing music that really did open a wonderful path in Advent. Thanks for the invitation! "

  • "The concert really put me into the spirit of Christmas, so thank you for the beautiful music. It was nice to hear something completely different."

  • "I really love coming to your concerts, especially the Christmas concert. The baroque half was incredible with the period instruments."

  • “Top notch concert. My husband and I particularly enjoyed the soloists.”

  • "I loved the concert and was so impressed! I thought the music was beautiful. Wow! It was a lovely event, and I was happy to be there.  I hope you and all your choir members are very pleased with how your hard work came together so beautifully. Congratulations on a great performance, and thank you for such a nice evening."

  • "A magnificent, powerful choir, extremely well performed.”

  • "We are amazed as to how quickly the choir learns these amazing and difficult choral arrangements between each concert, and performs them with such excellence."

  • "Love this choir. We will come with our friends to upcoming concerts. They need to support and experience this great choir as well.”

  • "I was truly impressed by the calibre of this choir. Great fun!"

Past seasons