2025 – 2026 Season

Nepean Choir is having a great 2025/26 season, and presented O Night Divine – Songs of the sky and the season on December 5th. The concert evoked images of the night sky, and included nighttime carols like The Darkest Midnight in December, O Holy Night, and Silent Night, and featured several solo pieces by Jennifer Loveless on pipe organ.

Next concert – “Better is Peace” May 2026

Nepean Choir is now focused on preparing two major works for our large-scale collaboration, Better is Peace, on Friday May 22nd 2026 at 7:30 PM at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre.

The concert is a joint collaboration Nepean Choir, Castenchel Choir, Nepean High School Choir, and The Ottawa Symphony Orchestra. We will once again be joined by guest soloists bass Matthew Li and mezzo-soprano Gabrielle Comeau-Gort.

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw’s The Listeners is the first work on our program. Premiered in 2019, the work is inspired by an artifact of greeting: Carl Sagan’s  ‘Golden Record’ created to send out to the far reaches of space with the NASA Voyager probes of the 1970s and includes texts that range from Tennyson to Lucille Clifton.

The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins was commissioned by the Royal Armouries to mark the transition from one millennium to another. It reflects on the passing of ‘the most war-torn and destructive century in human history’ and looks forward in hope to a more peaceful future.

The work is built around the traditional Catholic Mass and includes settings of the Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei and Benedictus. But what makes the work distinctive are the lyrics drawn from many parts of the world and from diverse religions and cultures such as the Psalms, Rudyard Kipling, Japanese poet Toge Sankichi, and the Mahabharata.

We look forward to having you join us!