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Welcome to the website of the Ottawa Bach Choir


The Ottawa Bach Choir, founded in 2002 by Lisette Canton, offers audiences a wide range of choral music of the finest quality, performing music from all historical periods while keeping Bach's choral oeuvre as the focus of its repertoire. Through a combination of both a scholarly and emotional approach to choral music, the choir expands all aspects of the artistic spectrum. It has performed extensively in Canada and abroad, and achieved national as well as international acclaim.


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Concert review: Superb season finale from Ottawa Bach Choir, Ensemble Caprice
Written by RICHARD TODD, OTTAWA CITIZEN | Saturday, May 04, 2013

BAROQUE MAGNIFICENCE

Who: Ottawa Bach Choir, Lisette Canton, conductor, with Ensemble Caprice and soloists
Where: St. Matthew's Church
Reviewed on: Saturday, May 4, 2013 - 8 PM


OBC Baroque Magnificence review

OTTAWA — Baroque Magnificence was the title of the Ottawa Bach Choir’s final concert of its regular season, and the repertoire couldn’t have been more appropriate: motets by Charpentier and Handel, and Bach’s Cantata 182, Himmelsköig, sei Willkommen.

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Concert review: Bach Choir conveys musicality, emotion of Renaissance masters
Written by RICHARD TODD, OTTAWA CITIZEN | Saturday, March 02, 2013

MASTERS OF THE RENAISSANCE

Who: Ottawa Bach Choir, Lisette Canton, conductor
Where: St. Matthew's Church
Reviewed on: Saturday, March 2, 2013 - 8 PM


OTTAWA — In music history the Renaissance is said to extend roughly from 1400 to 1600, but most of the Renaissance music that people are familiar with these days comes from the late 16th century. It’s like the Baroque period which began about 1600 and ended around 1750, but is most often represented in concert by composers from the last generation of the era — Handel, Vivaldi and especially J. S. Bach.

On Saturday evening conductor Lisette Canton and her Ottawa Bach Choir presented music by Palestrina and Victoria, two of the greatest composers of the 16th century, or of any century for that matter.

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