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Dead of Winter (formerly Camerata Nova) getting ready to ring in the season

November 8, 2021

NOVEMBER 8, 2021 – Our first concert of the season – “Celebrating the Carol” – is fast approaching, and we cannot wait to ring, or should we say sing, in the holidays with our fans and supporters.

On November 27 and 28, we will be taking the stage for the first time as Dead of Winter (formerly Camerata Nova) at Crescent Fort Rouge United Church. With a program curated by Andrew Balfour and John Wiens, this first concert in our upcoming season is an invitation to audiences and supporters to embark on a journey with the ensemble for our first live performance after almost two years. “Celebrating the Carol” will be a rare opportunity for audiences to hear (and participate in!) a spectacular concert experience free of charge. This type of outreach is something that Camerata Nova engaged in for 18 years and we are delighted to bring it back after the long haul of COVID. This is one of the many ways in which we give back to the community, making it more accessible to families and diversifying the audience for choral music in Manitoba.

As we return to the stage, we want to take the opportunity to showcase work by some glorious Manitoba composers including Scott Reimer, Daniel Wiebe, and Mike McKay. We are an ever-evolving ensemble, and collaborations with local creatives continue to shape our identity in the most rewarding ways. Rounding out the repertoire for this concert will be music by di Lasso, Gabrieli, Schubert, Mueller, and Wishart.

We should highlight that we are being careful with this offering. To reduce operating costs, we will not be bringing in big guest instrumentalists, and we will be accepting donations to defray the cost of the event.

If you have not yet reserved your tickets, there are still two weeks before the concert; but it’s selling out fast! Reserve your tickets here. If you have reserved a ticket but have, for whatever reason, decided not to attend, please contact us ASAP so that we can offer your reservation to someone else. This is extremely important, as we are operating at a limited capacity and would like to allow for as many people to attend the concert as possible.

Looking ahead to 2022, we are taking our early music performances up a notch. In April, we will be presenting an unprecedented collaboration between three Winnipeg choirs who are passionate about Baroque music: Canzona, Dead of Winter and Polycoro. Each choir will produce its own concert (April 8, 9 and 10, 2022) focusing on early music from a different region: Canzona – England; Polycoro – Italy; and Dead of Winter – Germany. The festival will culminate on April 15, 2022 with a three-choir performance of J.S. Bach’s St John Passion with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, masterful Baroque soloists, and a combined force of powerful Manitoba choristers.

A limited number of early bird tickets are available at $60 for all concerts included in the Winnipeg Baroque Festival. Reserve your tickets here.

Of course, your safety is our priority. We are so looking forward to performing for you again, but we would like to do so as safely as possible. For our concerts on November 27 & 28 – Celebrating the Carol – we are:

– Selling tickets to approx. 33% capacity

– Requiring all patrons, choristers, volunteers, and staff to be fully vaccinated

– Requiring all patrons and choristers, volunteers, and staff to remain masked throughout the entire concert