Awards & Accomplishments
In just over six years, Lady Cove Women’s Choir has already taken its place on the international choral stage. Lady Cove has been chosen as one of 25 ensembles from around the globe to perform at The International Federation of Choral Music’s World Choral Symposium in Argentina during the summer of 2011.
In the summer of 2008 the choir was invited to and won first place in the prestigious Béla Bartók International Choir Competition in Debrecen, Hungary – the only choir in Canada to receive this invitation last year. The win at the Béla Bartók competition followed a first place win in the contemporary music category at Canada’s largest and most prestigious choral competition, the CBC’s National Radio Competition for Amateur Choirs, in May 2008. As well, in May of 2006 the Choir won first place in the same CBC competition in the equal voices female category; in 2004, it was chosen as one of five Canadian semi-finalists in this biennial competition.
In 2005, 2007 & 2009, Lady Cove Women’s Choir was invited to and participated in the biennial international choral festival – Festival 500 Sharing the Voices, held in Newfoundland and Labrador.
In the summer of 2011, Lady Cove will present a special lecture-recital in which the choir will explore how a choral community can be a new and powerful vehicle for the preservation, transmission, and re-visioning of a traditional culture. This recital will be presented three times, twice in St. John’s and once at the World Choral Symposium in Argentina. The second of these hometown presentations will simultaneously close Festival 500’s Academic Choral Symposium and open The International Council for Traditional Music’s World Conference.
Lady Cove Women’s Choir released its debut CD, Lady Cove, in the fall of 2006 and was immediately nominated for a provincial music industry association award, Music NL’s Classical Album of the Year.
