The Beginning of the Song

Presented by musica intima

In The Beginning of the Song, vocal ensemble musica intima rounds out their season of collaboration by joining with a quartet of mentored singers from the Vancouver Youth Choir, to explore musica intima’s unique cannon of contemporary Canadian music. Featuring past commissions from Leslie Uyeda and Alfredo Santa Ana, as well as premiering a piece by Michael Oesterle, the concert will explore themes of communication and isolation, as we reflect on the past year of social distancing.

For this unique concert, musica intima will also be joined by Kenyan-Canadian Spoken Word Artist Germaine Konji, who will be premiering pieces commissioned for the concert. Konji is a recent graduate of Sheridan College and one of the recipients of the 20-21 Syd and Shirley Banks Prize for Emerging Musical Theatre Artists.

This digital concert was filmed in part at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.