Music

On Sundays at 10:30am and holy days, music is offered by the Christ Church Deer Park Choir, a mixed-voice, vested, adult choir conducted by our Director of Music & Organist. The ensemble is comprised of skilled volunteer amateur singers from the community, who are supported by professional section leads. In addition to helping lead congregational hymns and other service music, the choir regularly prepares anthems, motets and selections from choral Mass settings, which artistically enrich our worship experience.

 The choir’s repertoire includes music from the Middle Ages through to the works of living composers. Some favourites performed last season include Byrd’s Ave Verum Corpus, Handel’s “Zadok the Priest,” the Gloria from Mozart’s “Coronation Mass,” Messiaen’s O Sacrum Convivium, Stanford’s “Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem,” Duruflé’s Ubi Caritas, and many more choral classics. We continually seek to expand our repertoire to encompass a wide variety of music drawn from the depths and breadths of the Church’s tradition, and reflective of its diverse members. The choir meets on Thursdays from 7-9pm for rehearsal (September to June) and is welcoming new choristers.