Welcome Victor Burke, Phoenix’s new production manager!
Victor Burke is a musician and arts administrator joining Phoenix Chamber Choir this season as our Production Manager. In addition to this role with Phoenix, Victor has sat on the board of the British Columbia Choral Federation as the manager of the British Columbia Youth Choir, and served as the director of communications for the Vancouver Youth Choir.
Vox Panacea
Seeking: Interim Director
Applications close January 15, 2023
Vox Panacea, treble voice physician choir, seeks inspiring Interim Director(s) for period Feb 27-May 7, 2023, with two week break March 13-24.
Phoenix Chamber Choir is hosting a free choral workshop led by Dr. Floydd Ricketts exploring Afrocentric music and spirituals on Friday, October 21, 7-9 PM. Read more
Please welcome Matthew Smith, Tenor 2, back to Phoenix! Matthew is a former member of the choir, and we are delighted to have him signing with us again.
Tell us a little about yourself:
I am very busy at the moment being a stay-at-home dad to my two young children. I also work for the Vancouver Public Library.
Tell us about your recent choral experience:
I previously sang with Phoenix for eight years, from 2004 – 2012. Other choirs I’ve sung with include Laudate Singers and Pacifica Singers.
What are you most excited about this season?
I’ve missed choral singing and am really excited to get back into it after some time away!
What song/album is your summer favourite?
Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (1972)(album)
Join us in welcoming Kimi Cheong to Phoenix Chamber Choir as our newest Soprano 1!
Tell us a little about yourself:
I am an articled student, which is essentially a lawyer who has finished law school but has not passed the bar exam yet! However, I can still go to court and do all the other things one would expect a lawyer to do, albeit with the supervision of a full lawyer.
Tell us about your recent choral experience:
I sang with the Vancouver Youth Choir for nine years, since its inception, and it was simultaneously a huge part of my life and a huge inspiration for me. Before that, I had only ever sung with my high school choir.
What are you most excited about this season?
The shared concert with the Chamber Choir and, of course, my own alumni choir! Sharing music with other choirs is always particularly special.
What song/album is your summer favourite?
I’m currently listening to the tick, tick… BOOM! soundtrack!
Welcome back to Phoenix, Jack Foster! Jack is our newest bass, and is a former member of Phoenix. We are so happy to have Jack back with the choir.
Tell us about your recent choral experience:
What are you most excited about this season?
We are thrilled to introduce you to our new Phoenix Members! Welcome Rachel Goetz, our newest Soprano 2.
Tell us a little about yourself:
I’m a teacher in the Coquitlam school district, currently working on my masters of music education. I’m married to Mike and we have two daughters away at university. In my spare time, I enjoy singing (of course!), walking, reading, travelling, and hanging out with family & friends. A new hobby this past year has been playing alto sax in a couple of community bands.
Tell us about your recent choral experience:
I have sung in the Coquitlam Celebration Choir (directed by Amy Stephen) and DeCoro (directed by Kelly Prosnik), which is the adult choir of the Coastal Sound Music Academy.
What are you most excited about this season?
I’m excited to sing some newly commissioned works as well as favourite selections from the past 40 years.
What song/album is your summer favourite?
Walking On Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves. My husband and I were in a band during our student days and that was a song we used to perform – fun memories!
This 2022-2023 season will be a year-long celebration of Forty Years of Phoenix Chamber Choir. Phoenix is honoured and humbled to recognize four consecutive decades of creating music together for our community. When we consider the transitions and decisions that an organization of our size, stature, and mandate must weather in order to experience the success we have for as long as we have, we are especially grateful. We know that is in large part due to you all: our devoted and loyal audience. This season will be a celebration of all of us: founders, choristers, directors past and present, composers and listeners alike.
Phoenix invites you to join us this 2022-2023 season as we journey together through the past and find ourselves looking toward the future:
Founded in 1983, Phoenix Chamber Choir is entering its 40th season as one of Canada’s finest vocal ensembles, renowned for diverse and eclectic programming from the Renaissance to the contemporary, commissions from Canadian and international composers, and North American premieres of significant new works.