Chor Leoni unveils 2025-26 season of annual concerts, including The Big Roar and PopCappella

Northern Indigenous multidisciplinary artist Miranda Currie takes part in the inaugural Amplify residency program

CHOR LEONI HAS JUST announced the lineup for its 2025-26 season, which will feature the return of four concerts and an inaugural artist-in-residence program.

Called Amplify, the new program will support Northern Indigenous multidisciplinary artist Miranda Currie this year, who will premiere a selection of works at The Big Roar in the spring. Currie is of mixed Swampy Cree and European ancestry and lives among the Dene people in a small cabin just off the shore of Great Slave Lake in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

Chor Leoni will launch its upcoming season with The Songs Will Remain, its 34th annual Remembrance Day concerts, at St. Andrew’s–Wesley United Church on November 11 at 2 pm and 5 pm. Santour player Saina Khaledi, pianist Tina Chang, organist Michael Dirk, and trumpeter Katherine Evans will join the choir for a thoughtful blend of classical, folk, and pop music that honours the fallen.

Christmas With Chor Leoni will return to St. Andrew’s–Wesley from December 18 to 20, with six performances at various times. Khaledi and Chang will play alongside the choir once again, this time joined by pianist Karen Lee-Morlang, harpist Vivian Chen, violinist Cameron Wilson, and guitarist Keith Sinclair. The holiday program includes the world premieres of a Persian New Year song by Khaledi, and Marie-Claire Saindon’s Jubilo. Audiences can also expect to hear cherished carols and traditional songs alongside two new arrangements: Ken Cormier’s take on “Angels We Have Heard on High” by Sufjan Stevens, and “What Child Is This?” from Chor Leoni artistic director Erick Lichte.

PopCappella will pick things back up at St. Andrew’s–Wesley in the new year on March 6 and 7, 2026. The signature pop-choral show will feature bespoke arrangements of well-known tracks by the Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen, Sara Bareilles, the B-52’s, and more. Percussionist Liam MacDonald and bassist Laurence Mollerup will join pianist Cormier and guitarist Sinclair in playing instrumentals for the choir.

Finally, The Big Roar will round out Chor Leoni’s season at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on May 8 and 9, 2026. Two joyous concerts will unite more than three hundred singers from the Leonids (Chor Leoni’s professional ensemble), the MYVoice youth choirs, the PRÉLUDE elementary school program, the Emerging Choral Artist Program, and two B.C. high school choirs. Each group will also perform its own set.

Ticket packs are on sale as of today. Single tickets will be up for grabs starting October 1.

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