In the spring of 2010, Melanie Turgeon and others began assembling Kappella Kyrie Slavic Chamber Choir. This ensemble explores a variety of repertoire, with a sincere intent to uphold Slavic sacred music. In 2015 Kappella Kyrie placed 2nd in the Pan-Cultural Traditions Category of Choral Canada’s National Competition. Since its inception they have been under the direction of Dr. Melanie Turgeon.
Kappella Kyrie has enjoyed performing several concerts to date and they have served the local community in various ways: singing the Divine Liturgy at the Marian Centre, caroling at the Stollery Children’s Hospital, performing at Newman Theological College’s fall Convocation, among other engagements. In May 2014, Kappella Kyrie experienced a very successful concert tour through Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. Closer to home, they have collaborated with various Alberta ensembles including Chorale Saint Jean, The King’s University Chamber Choir, the Richard Eaton Singers, and the Calgary Youth Orchestra. They
Kappella Kyrie Slavic Chamber Choir
thoroughly enjoyed performing a concert with Canadian tenor, Benjamin Butterfield in November 2017.
Kappella Kyrie has uniquely sung sacred repertoire within actual church services. In June 2015 Kappella Kyrie celebrated its fifth anniversary, and they chose to mark this special occasion by singing Rachmaninoff’s famous All-Night Vigil as an actual church service. Likely this has never been done before in Canada and possibly even in North America! Similarly, as part of Podium 2016, Kappella Kyrie sang The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, sharing music spanning from the 17th to the 21st century. At this Liturgy they premiered selections from Ukrainian female composer, Stefania Turkewich’s “Divine Liturgy” which she composed in 1919. Most recently, in November 2018, they sang Canadian composer, Roman Hurko’s Панахида (Requiem) for a memorial service commemorating the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine (Holodomor).

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