Command Performance Choir
The Choir is now accepting new members for the Spring of 2025 season.
Winter Solstice Celebration
Our Ancestors heralded the return of longer days with bonfires, feasts, dance and song. Command Performance Choir is preparing a Concert to celebrate the winter season and all that the Solstice promises. The weather, the spirit of the time of year, the people and country where these extremes make a world carved out of ice and snow, is described in beautiful choral arrangements and will be brought to our Community this December. The many aspects of this special time of year have been wrought in song. Some humorous, some pagan, some vigorous and robust, others like ice crystals, delicate as frosty breath in air. This special time of year Canadians relish – look forward to with delight – the first snowfall, candle glow, fireside, frosty pane, starlight, snowflakes swirling – this is being celebrated in beautiful melodies and harmonies with a nod to our ancestors and their Joy at the return of the Light. The long, dark, cold days will slowly begin to lengthen after the December Solstice and that is good cause to gather to celebrate the hope that the wait for rebirth is ending and a New Year is upon us. We hope you will join us. Friday December 6 th and Saturday December 7 th , 7:30 pm, St. Mary Magdalene Church, Picton.
Proceeds will go to feed the hungry in Belleville and Picton.
We are now accepting new members! If you are interested in joining or re-joining, please use the contact us page. Please note you must be fully vaccinated per Ontario Health guidelines to participate.
Command Performance is Prince Edward County’s community choir, founded in 1988. The choir was formed by a small group of local singers who had come together with various artists and groups from as far away as Kingston to perform in the Quinte Summer Music festival. To date, we have fifty members from all over the County as well as from Trenton and Belleville.
The choir is committed to providing a variety of music for a Christmas and a Spring Show. The choir has always reached out to the community to sing at other venues and this year we have actively sought out opportunities to make such appearances.
Moira Nikander-Forrester, BA, B Ed.
The director since 2003 has brought to the choir a tremendous amount of energy as well as artistically challenging music with many different styles and genres. Moira has a wealth of experience as a music teacher in the County and Belleville schools and is very active in the Belleville musical theater field.
Shelley MacKenzie-Coates, B. Mus., B. Ed., M. Ed., ARCT,
A member of the choir since 2022, Shelley is pleased to now be supporting the choir as accompanist. Shelley has been involved in musical activities and roles since a child, including piano instructor, Youth Theatre, church and community choir director, and accompanist. Shelley enjoyed a rewarding career with the Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board in the roles of Secondary Music and English teacher, Curriculum Co-ordinator, and finally, School Administrator. Retirement is allowing Shelley the opportunity to return to her musical roots with Command Performance Choir and the Belleville Theatre Guild’s musical theatre productions.
Rehearsals are held on Monday Evenings from 7:00 to 9:00 PM. In order to ensure balance between sections we would need to hear your voice to ensure that there would be a good fit for both the needs of the choir and you as an individual. Please fill out the contact form if you would like to be on the waiting list and potentially join our choir.