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Friday, April 17, 2026 – 7:00 pm
Basilica – Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Ottawa
385 Sussex Dr
Ottawa, ON K1N 1J9
Performed by the combined choirs of SMAM and Notre Dame Cathedral, this concert weaves together western music traditions and living indigenous themes and language. The programme celebrates the lives and works of sacred women including the Virgin Mary, the prophecies of the Sybil at Cumae, and a new work by indigenous composer Andrew Balfour inspired by the life of Kateri Tekakwitha. Music featured includes the extraordinary Gloria form the Earthquake Mass by Antoine Brumel, a new Mohawk text setting of the mesmerising Deo Gratia with by works by Johannes Ockeghem, and pieces by Hildegard von Bingen, Isaac, Josquin, Lassus, and Stopford.
Ross Whitney (born in 1954)
Pentatonic Alleluia
Philip Stopford (born in 1977)
The Beatitudes
Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450-1517)
Motet à six voix Virgo Prudentissima
(Liber selectarum cantionum, Augsburg, 1520)
Josquin des Prez (c. 1450-1521)
Motet à 6 voix O Virgo Virginum
Hildegard von Bingen (c. 1098-1179)
Antienne O Virtus Sapientiae
Roland de Lassus (c. 1532-1594)
Motets à 4 voix Prophetiae Sibyllarum, extraits
—-Carmina Chromatico, LV 1048
—-Sibylla Persica, LV 1049
—-Sibylla Libyca, LV 1050
—-Sibylla Delphica, LV 1051
Roland de Lassus
Motet à 8 voix Alma Redemptoris Mater
(Magnum Opus Musicum, Munich, 1604)
Antoine Brumel (c.1460-1513)
Gloria de la Messe Et ecce terræ motus
PAUSE
Andrew Balfour (born in 1967)
Praeter rerum serium, d’après le motet de Josquin des Prez
Andrew Balfour
Missa Tekakwitha – 7 Rochers des grands-pères / Enseignements / Prophéties
1. énska (un)
2. tékeni (deux)
3. áhsen (trois)
4. kaié:ri (quatre)
5. wisk (cinq)
6. ià:ia’k (six)
7. tsá:ta (sept)
Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1410-1497), arr. Andrew Balfour
Nia:wen Rawenni:io (Canon Deo Gratias)
SMAM
Élodie Bouchard, Rebecca Dowd Lekx, Len Torrie, Marie Magistry, sopranos
Charlotte Cumberbirch, Isabella Cuminato, Josée Lalonde, Marie-Andrée Mathieu, altos
Andrew Balfour, Chenuka Lakwijaya, Michiel Schrey, Arthur Tanguay-Labrosse, tenors
Pierre-Etienne Bergeron, John Giffen, Emanuel Lebel, Kevin Marimbu, basses
The choirs of Notre-Dame Basilica
Andrew McAnerney, conductor
Michel Guimont, conductor