Podium 2026 interest session: Drama Games for Choirs! (pre-recorded)
This pre-recorded Interest Session by composer/educator Alex Eddington will be available for Podium 2026 delegates in the conference app - from May 14 to November 18, 2026.
Ember Choral Arts: The New Frontier - “A Present from a Small Distant World”
Ember Choral Arts presents The New Frontier.
Featuring A Present From a Small Distant World for SATB choir by Alex Eddington. Text by Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the USA. Carter’s speech was included on the "Golden Record" launched on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, 1977.
Ember Choral Arts: The New Frontier - “A Present from a Small Distant World”
Ember Choral Arts presents The New Frontier.
Featuring A Present From a Small Distant World for SATB choir by Alex Eddington. Text by Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the USA. Carter’s speech was included on the "Golden Record" launched on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, 1977.
Sing-Along! CEC choral reading session - “What is Passion?”
During the Podium 2026 conference, the Canadian Experimental Choir (Choeur Expérimental du Canada) presents two reading sessions of self-published choir pieces by Canadian Composers.
What is Passion? by Alex Eddington is included in both sessions
Friday, May 15, 2026 - 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Saturday, May 16, 2026 - 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
University of Victoria, room A144 - David Lam Auditorium
Viva Singers - "Phaeton and Apollo" (world premiere!)
VIVA Singers Toronto proudly presents “Metamorphosis,” a celebration honouring VIVA’s 25th anniversary. This special program features all 7 VIVA choirs.
Featuring 4 world premiere adaptations of stories from Ovid’s Metamorphoses - including “Phaeton and Apollo” by Alex Eddington.
Sound Opportunity Choir - "Big Blue Sky" (world premiere!)
Sound Opportunity Choir presents 20 Years of Song
Featuring the world premiere of Big Blue Sky for choir and piano by Alex Eddington.
Big Blue Sky was commissioned by Sound Opportunity through a Choral Canada fundraising initiative. The test was created collaboratively with the choir
Cantabile Chamber Singers performing "What is Passion?"
Includes the Ontario premiere of What is Passion? by Alex Eddington
A choral concert featuring works that draw on themes of passion, strife, and love from Canadian composers (Saman Shahi, Alex Eddington, Natalie Wong, Kelly-Marie Murphy, Healey Willan and more)
The Lost Words - Elektra Women's Choir
Repeat performance of The Lost Words: a Spell Book
Music by 10 Canadian composers including “Acorn” and "Magpie” by Alex Eddington
Text and images by Robert MacFarlane
Text and images by Robert MacFarlane
20 pieces by 10 Canadian composers
World premiere of “Acorn” and “Magpie” by Alex Eddington
The Lost Words: a Spell Book - text and images by Robert MacFarlane
Composers: Carmen Braden, Alex Eddington, Nicholas Ryan Kelly, Katerina Gimon, Ramona Luengen, Don Macdonald, Monica Pearce, Marie-Claire Saindon, Rodney Sharman, Stephen Smith
Elektra Women’s Choir
Morna Edmundson, Artistic Director
Cantabile Chamber Singers - "Barter" (world premiere!)
Includes the world premiere of Barter by Alex Eddington (text
A choral concert featuring a vibrant selection of multilingual works by composers including Reena Esmail, Timothy Corlis, Robert Delgado, Aiko Tomi, and more!
Look Up - KC VITAs choir performing "A Present From a Small Distant World"
Join KC VITAs and the Arvin Gottlieb Planetarium for "Look Up" as they combine the fruits of the composer's labor with the views and phenomena that inspired them. This unique and immersive experience will have viewers traveling through the galaxies while enjoying live, brand new choral music by some of Kansas City's finest singers.
Podium 2024 interest session: Drama Games for Choirs (virtual)
In this energetic and interactive session, participants will learn many quick activities to inject energy and focus into rehearsals. This collection of theatre games by Augusto Boal and Viola Spolin - as well as "ear cleaning" activities by composer R. Murray Schafer - has been handpicked and adapted for use with choirs of any age. Circle games, partner games, improv structures and listening challenges: all of these can build musical skills and confidence - and they are FUN. Participants will receive a bilingual handout with game instructions and additional resources.
The Lost Words U.K. Tour! - Elektra Women's Choir
U.K. Tour of The Lost Words: a Spell Book
Music by 10 Canadian composers including “Acorn” and "Magpie” by Alex Eddington
Text and images by Robert MacFarlane
Text and images by Robert MacFarlane
20 pieces by 10 Canadian composers
World premiere of “Acorn” and “Magpie” by Alex Eddington
The Lost Words: a Spell Book - text and images by Robert MacFarlane
Composers: Carmen Braden, Alex Eddington, Nicholas Ryan Kelly, Katerina Gimon, Ramona Luengen, Don Macdonald, Monica Pearce, Marie-Claire Saindon, Rodney Sharman, Stephen Smith
Elektra Women’s Choir
Morna Edmundson, Artistic Director
Boy with Orange - performed by Serenata Singers
Serenata Singers (Scarborough ON)
Artistic Director: Jonathan Wong
“Songs for a New World”
Thursday May 11 - 1:30pm and Friday May 12 - 7:00pm
Performing Boy with Orange (out of Kosovo) by Alex Eddington
The Lost Words - world premiere - Elektra Women's Choir
World premiere!
“Acorn” and "Magpie” by Alex Eddington
The Lost Words: a Spell Book
Text and images by Robert MacFarlane
20 pieces by 10 Canadian composers
World premiere of “Acorn” and “Magpie” by Alex Eddington
The Lost Words: a Spell Book - text and images by Robert MacFarlane
Composers: Carmen Braden, Alex Eddington, Nicholas Ryan Kelly, Katerina Gimon, Ramona Luengen, Don Macdonald, Monica Pearce, Marie-Claire Saindon, Rodney Sharman, Stephen Smith
Elektra Women’s Choir
Morna Edmundson, Artistic Director
i Choristi Chamber Choir performs "A Present From a Small Distant World"
Canadian premiere!
On this unique evening, appreciate the insights of our masterful tour guide Dr. Sharon Morsink, as she ushers us through her world of astrophysics in a series of captivating mini-lectures.
Complement the experience with transcendently beautiful music selections that were inspired by the same awe-inspiring extra-terrestrial subjects.
"What is Passion?" - world premiere by Phoenix Chamber Choir
The opening concert of our 2021-2022 season will feature repertoire performed with the intention to evoke a passionate emotional response in both the performer and listener. The world premiere of a commissioned work by Canadian composer Alex Eddington will highlight the collaborative nature of Phoenix.
"A Present From a Small Distant World" - world premiere by KC VITAs choir
A Present From a Small Distant World by Alex Eddington was selected from 800 submissions to be part of KC VITA choir’s annual Summer Series concerts in Kansas City, MO. This will be a world premiere.
TILESCAPES for all-ages/abilities choir and ambient soundscape (world premiere)
Alex Eddington is creating collaborative music and sound design with the all-ages, all-abilities Ground Floor Choir, for the Jumblies Theatre project TILESCAPES.
This world premiere work will feature texts by the participants inspired by tiles they designed throughout the project (see below), vocal works created collaboratively with the choir, and an ambient soundscape generated by ceramic materials.
This performance coincides with the opening of the Tilescapes exhibition, and is FREE to the public.
TILESCAPES
In Fall 2018 ceramics artist, Parker Dirks, came once a week to The Ground Floor and worked with our artists and community participants to create ceramic tiles expressing landscapes mingling fantasy, memory and local surroundings.
These turned out so intricately and magnificently, that we have invited Parker back to finish the project through an intensive residency period at The Ground Floor.
There will be public drop-in sessions, other less formal drop-in options, and a final exhibition and celebration for the finished tiles, including music and stories responding to them.
"Kyrie on Jesous Ahatonhia" for choir (world premiere)
Voices Choir presents The Mystery of Christmas.
World premiere of Kyrie on “Jesous Ahatonhia” from Missa Brevis on Francophone Carols by Alex Eddington.
A setting of the Latin Kyrie text. The music is re-composed from the tune of Jesous Ahatonhia, otherwise known by its more recent name: the Huron Carol.