Anna Lapwood, British celebrity organist and choir director, might be bringing The Chapel Choir of Pembroke School, Cambridge, to Toronto and different Canadian cities on tour. The tour will start in Montréal (July 21 to 24), then hit Québec Metropolis (July 25), Ottawa (July 26 and 27), Kingston (July 29 and 30), and end up in Toronto (August 1 to three).
The choir might be performing live shows, with Lapwood directing, and in addition singing throughout providers at most of the church buildings through the tour.
Anna Lapwood
Anna Lapwood MBE is an organist, conductor and fashionable broadcaster on the BBC. She has been Director of Music at Pembroke School, Cambridge for a decade. She can be the Organist of the Royal Albert Corridor and is Artist in Affiliation with the BBC Singers.
Anna’s formal music training started with research in piano, violin, viola and composition on the Junior Royal Academy of Music. She will play a complete of 15 devices, and was the principal harpist for the Nationwide Youth Orchestra of Nice Britain and the Junior Academy Symphony Orchestra.
On her appointment, she grew to become the youngest particular person ever to carry the title of Music Director at Pembroke School. Amongst different initiatives, she based the Pembroke School Ladies’ Choir for ladies from native faculties aged 11 to 18 in 2018, and that choir performs weekly through the faculty yr.
As a recitalist, Anna has carried out on the Royal Albert Corridor, the Royal Competition Corridor and St Thomas Church in New York, amongst different distinguished venues, and at cathedrals throughout Europe. She performed with UK DJ and producer Bonobo earlier than a crowd of 5,000 in 2022.
Anna was the affiliate artist at Royal Albert Corridor, and was named the Corridor’s inaugural official organist in 2025. Since her appointment there, she has leveraged a preferred social media presence right into a discussion board for popularizing and educating fashionable audiences concerning the historical instrument.
Her current album Firedove has been climbing up the worldwide classical music charts.
The Chapel Choir of Pembroke School
The members of the Chapel Choir of Pembroke School come from a wide range of disciplines, introduced collectively of their love of choral music. The Choir is understood for its excessive customary of efficiency, and a large ranging repertoire that features each conventional sacred music and up to date classical in addition to preparations of pop music.
They’ve toured worldwide all through the UK, Europe, america, Thailand, Zambia and past.
They’ve recorded and launched music on the Signum Data label, and recorded at Abbey Highway studio with Grammy-award profitable composer Christopher Tin and singer-songwriter Tom Chaplin.
After a decade main the choir, it is going to be the final tour for Lapwood, who made what she calls a “actually tough determination” to surrender the place with a view to give attention to organ efficiency.
They carry out collectively on her present album, Firedove.
On the shut of her tenure as Director of Music at Pembroke School, Cambridge, she’ll lead the choir in an all-night BBC Promenade at London’s Royal Albert Corridor later in August 2025.
The Program
The live performance program for the tour is assorted, and contains:
- All issues are fairly silent, Kerry Andrew;
- Come up, Shine Anna Lapwood;
- My coronary heart, O God Lucy Walker;
- Search Him that Maketh the Seven Stars, Jonathan Dove;
- Grandmother Moon, Eleanor Daley;
- Sleep, Eric Whitacre;
- Come to Me, Ivo Antognini;
- Vigilate, William Byrd;
- Everybody Sang, David Bednall;
- Leonardo Goals of his Flying Machine, Eric Whitacre;
- Make You Really feel My Love, Bob Dylan/arr. Lapwood.
Together with the Choir and Lapwood, organ students Molly Hord and Sophia Membery might be taking part in the organ accompaniment.
The Tour Dates
A few of the live shows name for pay-what-you-can admission, with steered donations from $20 to $40. With the tour simply introduced, a number of the places don’t have on-line listings for the occasions; test with the places to make sure. Be aware additionally that the live shows are paid occasions; in fact the providers usually are not.
Montréal
Québec Metropolis (July 25)
- July 25: Basilique to Notre-Dame de Québec, midday (service)
Ottawa (July 26 and 27)
- July 26: St. Barnabas, 7:30 p.m.
- July 27: St. Barnabas, 7:15 p.m. (Evensong)
Kingston (July 29 and 30)
Toronto (August 1 to three)
- New: Ticket hyperlink for Toronto [HERE]
- August 1: St. Mary Magdalene, 7:30 p.m.
- August 2: Holy Household Church, 7:30 p.m.
- August 3: St. Mary Magdalene, 10:30 a.m. (service)
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Anya Wassenberg is the Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. Beforehand, she was a contract author with a specialty in tradition and journey for 3 many years, and a artistic writing teacher for Ontariolearn.
