London Pro Musica Choir 2025-26 Concert Series

London Pro Musica Choir's 2025-2026 season titled Beginnings continues to explore the many traditions and communities within our city and beyond. We are making every effort to ensure that our repertoire reflects that diversity and that our audience will be inspired to attend our outstanding variety of performances.

The season launches with London composer Oliver Whitehead’s Mass for All Creatures. This exuberant work celebrates the beauty and fragility of all life, especially the animals that live alongside us. Additionally, new scores are being created to allow the work to be shared across Canada, a new movement to the Mass has been written by the composer for the occasion, and a representative recording will also be created.

Our second concert of the season, Texture, celebrates the music and influence of 16th century Italian composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. The program features Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli: an intricate, exquisite work written in defiance of a papal edict demanding that all sacred music be simple and stark. Our program will celebrate this work and incorporate works by German composer Anton Bruckner. Bruckner lived 300 years later, yet his music rings with the old master’s influence and style. With this unadorned, a cappella program, we, like Palestrina, stand in defiant defense of the necessity of beauty in dark times.

2025 closes with two performances of an LPMC favourite, Handel’s Messiah. As in previous years, we will collaborate with the community on a Sing-Along Messiah. The concert features strings and soloists from the London area. Finally, we will wrap-up 2025 with our own performance of Messiah, featuring professional soloists and strings at our home venue of St. James Westminster. This is an audience favourite, and we are thrilled to be bringing it back as part of our 2025/2026 season.

In the new year, we’ll embark on our next Common Ground program, Brahms’ A German Requiem. This large, sweeping work for soloists and chorus comes in an arrangement written by the composer for one piano, 4-hands. My intention is to utilize this beautiful arrangement which will allow us to easily take this program to Stratford, building new relationships with audiences there.

Finally, a large-scale collaboration to end our season: Water: An Environmental Oratorio by Ontario composer Stephanie Martin; excerpts of which we performed at our Green Cathedral concert last season. This is a special collaboration will Chor Amica and Music at First St. Andrew's.

Our choir was honoured to receive the 2024 Forest City London Music Award for Best Classical Vocal (Choir/Group). We are led by our artistic director Paul Grambo and accompanist Hayoon Kim. We look forward to welcoming you to our 2025-2026 season as we truly believe that we bring you “Voices that Inspire”. Visit it www.londonpromusica.ca for more information.