Chor Leoni Men’s Choir is marking two very important milestones this season: the choir’s twentieth anniversary, and, at the end of the current season, the retirement of founder and Artistic Director Diane Loomer, C.M. In September 2013 Loomer will step…
Chor Leoni Announces Successor to Founder Diane Loomer, C.M.
Chor Leoni Announces Successor to Founder Diane Loomer, C.M. • Erick Lichte appointed Artistic Director effective September 2013 • Diane Loomer, C.M. concurrently assumes Conductor Emerita position Vancouver, BC – Vancouver’s renowned pride of singing lions, Chor Leoni Men’s Choir,…
Concert Date Changes
Chor Leoni presents MYVoice is now: Saturday, April 20, 2013 • 7:30pmQueens Avenue United Church529 Queens Ave (at 6th St) further details here Best of Bard dates are now: Monday, June 24, 2013 • 3pm PRVIEW matin
At Home is SOLD OUT!
Thanks to unprecedented interest, our At Home event on September 26 is SOLD OUT. Your support of Chor Leoni is very much appreciated and we look forward to singing for you at our upcoming concerts.
The Adriatic Prowl Compendium: All Posts
Due to the limitations of the length of an individual blog post it is impossible to combine ALL of the posts from our Adriatic Prowl into one that you can read from beginning to end. Please consider this post your…
Chor Leoni Launches 20th Year By Winning a Dozen Awards at Seghizzi Competition
Vancouver’s Chor Leoni Men’s Choir, Artistic Director, Diane Loomer, C.M., and Associate Conductor Erick Lichte ended an 18 day tour of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Italy with stellar performances at the 51st Seghizzi Concorso Internationale Di Canto Corale in Gorizia, Italy,…
Day 2 of competition
What a phenomenal day! Today we set our minds to the competition on what has been the most demanding day, chorally, so far this trip. We had to perform three sets of songs spread throughout the day – each set…
Sunday, July 15th
Many of us arrived at our 8 a.m. rehearsal a little groggy this morning due to the absolutely amazing party for all participants of Segghizi the night before. On this morning, our final performance of the competition (19th Century category)…
Another Face of Chor Leoni
Perhaps you know where we are and what we’re doing this final long weekend. In case not .. We’re now in Gorizia, a lovely town shared by Italy and Slovenia, attending the 51st annual Choral Competition Seghizzi. We’re one of…
Rehearsal day in Gorizia
Today was a day that was entirely blank on our printed schedule. Could it be a holiday, a day off? Yes, it was — except for six hours of rehearsal here at the hotel in Gorizia. We arrived last night…
Storms, the Adriatic, and Aquileia
We left the beautiful town of Tolmezzo, where I was able to climb up to the Picotta Tower during a thunder storm and a downpour. Because of the storm the view wasn’t the greatest, but I got drenched, and it…
July 10 – A Choir Mom Blog
Sometimes I feel I am the luckiest woman I know – to be able to have all the men in her family sing in Chor Leoni, and to listen to them rehearse and perform. But then it gets better, because…