PHOENIX CHORAL EXPERIENCE

Phoenix Chamber Choir is a not-for-profit community choir based in the Vancouver area that is now entering its 41st Anniversary Season. Prior to the pandemic, Phoenix hosted an annual event – “Phoenix Choral Experience” – a weekend workshop for educators and high-school music students to share experiences through song.  Last season, we were thrilled to bring the “Phoenix Choral Experience: Cultural Appreciation” to new heights with experiences for educators, and youth & adult choral singers through workshops, special guests, cultural exchange, and newly commissioned choral work.

The Phoenix Choral Experience is a free educational outreach program for singers of all ages to work with and learn from Phoenix Chamber Choir, Artistic Director Dr. Nicholle Andrews, and other music educators and professionals. Our 2024-2025 program will look at ways to connect the broader community to choral music by giving voice to underrepresented composers and cultures. 

To receive more information for our 2024-2025 experience, please email admin@phoenixchoir.com

2024-2025 Phoenix Choral Experience

Phoenix Choral Experience 2024-2025 Season

Are you an educator who is interested in participating in our 2024-2025 Season Phoenix Choral Experience? Please email admin@phoenixchoir.com to receive information.

The 2024-2025 Phoenix Choral Experience student workshops will take place from February 25 to 28, 2024, and include a performance at Phoenix Chamber Choir’s concert on Saturday, March 1, 2024, 3 PM.

To register for the Phoenix Choral Experience (PCX) 2025, please click here.

Meet our 2024-2025 Clinicians

Cuban-American mezzo-soprano, Olga Perez Flora was the first prize winner of the American Prize: Women in Song & Oratorio 2022 and has performed several roles and recitals with companies across the United States, Cuba, and in Italy. Most recently featured in the opera Frida by Rodriguez with Opera Southwest as the fiery Lupe Rivera and as the Mother and the Sea in Jorge Martin’s Before Night Falls, she has performed with opera companies and symphonies across the country and internationally and is best known for her sultry Carmen, which she has performed numerous times, including her debut with Amarillo Opera. Upcoming performance highlights include the title role of Carmen in Carmen with Opera Southwest, mezzo-soprano soloist in the Verdi Requiem in Rome, Italy with Performance International, and the Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes with Chatter. Dr. Flora was featured in Michael Ching’s Completing the Picture (November 2020 release) which was recorded and filmed remotely during the pandemic, for Opera Company Middlebury. Dr. Flora is currently an Assistant Professor of Voice and Head of Voice at the University of New Mexico and the Artistic Director of the Gobbi Villa summer young artist program in Rome, Italy. More information at olgaperezflora.com

Melodie Langevin is the Director of Choirs at Seycove Secondary, a vibrant school nestled in a town residents affectionately call “The Cove” in North Vancouver. An avid chorister herself, Melodie discovered a passion for conducting while completing her Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Manitoba. She studied with soprano Valdine Anderson and sang under Dr. Elroy Friesen and with several other ensembles in Winnipeg including Camerata Nova, an innovative ensemble that performs early, contemporary, and Indigenous-infused repertoire.

In 2013, Melodie moved to Vancouver to complete her Bachelor of Education degree. Not long after her move, she began singing with the Phoenix Chamber Choir and the St. Andrew’s-Wesley Vocal Ensemble, and over the past few years she has also sung concerts with the Vancouver Cantata Singers, Postmodern Camerata, Aurora Chamber Choir, and musica intima, and sung with various church ensembles throughout Vancouver. Melodie has also been a Music Literacy Teacher for the Vancouver Choral Arts Society, volunteers as the Choral Clinics Coordinator for BCMEA, and she often records vocals for the Cypress Choral Music Publishing company. In addition to her position as Director of Choirs at Seycove, Melodie is also one of four directors for Chor Leoni Men’s Choir’s educational outreach program called MYVoice, leading the North Shore ensemble of young Tenors and Basses.

She is currently on maternity leave so it has been a distinct pleasure for her to continue to work with youth through the Phoenix Choral Experience!

Sponsors

The Phoenix Choral Experience is made possible with thanks to the Music Education Partnership Grants of Chorus America.

Additional support provided by:

The Hamber Foundation