The Parish Choir, preserves, promotes and popularizes Ukrainian sacred music composed from the 1600s to the contemporary period. It showcases unique compositions whenever possible. The choir has a reputation for choral excellence and extensive repertoire.
A tribute to Roman Waschuk, former Canadian ambassador to Ukraine, and his wife, Oksana Smerechuk, organized by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC), National. Mr. Waschuk and Ms. Smerechuk have been choir members since they were university students. The UCC invited the choir to begin the tribute with the Ukrainian and Canadian national anthems, a singing of the opening prayer, “Otche Nash”, a selection of koljady, and the quadri-lingual “Huron Carol” sung in English, French, Wendaat, and Ukrainian.
Ukraine: the 21st annual international festival Велика Коляда / Velyka Koljada, in Lviv; the 10th annual international festival, Коляда на Майзлях / Koljada na Majzlakh, in Ivano-Frankivsk; and the first annual festival at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Днесь Рождається Від Діви / Dnes’ Rozhdajet’sya vid Divy. This was the first time a Canadian choir was a participant in each of these festivals. The choir also performed a brief concert at the Dzherelo Children’s Rehabilitation Centre for special needs children and youth in Lviv, and celebrated mass in three churches.
A Tribute to Ukrainian Composer Oleksander Koshyts’ as guest performers of Vesnivka women’s choir, also based at the St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church. Over the years, the choir has collaborated with Vesnivka on several occasions.
Commemoration of the Victims of the Holodomor at the Princess Gates, Exhibition Place in Toronto, organized by the UCC, local branch and national. In recent years, the choir has been selected by the UCC to sing the Panakhyda (Funeral / Commemorative Rite).
Liturgical concert series as part of the program of the very popular Capital Ukrainian Festival in Ottawa.
A Tribute to Ivan Kowaliw as guest performers of Vesnivka women’s choir; Maestro Kowaliw was the conductor of the St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church Parish Choir from the 1950s to the 1970s and had also established and conducted an orchestra.
Concert of sacred music sung by an array of choirs, organized by the Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies under the patronage of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Toronto and Eastern Canada, to honour the 150th anniversary of Metropolitan Andrej Sheptytskyj’s birth and to gather funds to assist theology students from Ukraine studying in Canada.
This festival of Greater Toronto Area (GTA) parish choirs was organized at the initiative of Maestro Myron Maksymiw, conductor of Musicus Bortnianskii and the parish choir of St. Demetrius the Great Martyr Byzantine Catholic Ukrainian Church which hosted the event.
Blessing of the Taras Shevchenko Monument in Ottawa at its unveiling; the event coincided with the 120th anniversary of Ukrainian immigration in Canada and 150th anniversary of Shevchenko’s death.
Concert of Ukrainian Sacred Music organized by the clergy of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church with guest performers: the parish choir, Vesnivka, Levada & Orion.
In Jerusalem, at the invitation of Rev. Volynskyj, the Choir marked the Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine.
Rome & Ukraine: on the invitation of Rev. Evtymij Volynskyj (then the hegumen of the Studite Monastery near Woodstock, Ontario), celebrations attending the transfer of Patriarch Josyf Slipyj’s remains from Rome to Lviv. The Choir sang the final Panakhyda for Patriarch Josyf at St. Sophia Ukrainian Catholic Church in Rome and celebrated mass with Panakhyda at the St. George’s Cathedral in Lviv.
Jerusalem and Egypt on the invitation of Rev. Evtymij Volynskyj, the choir marked the Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine and joined in prayers for the liberation of the Church in the USSR.
