Download the 2013 CD "This is my song"

You can purchase this year's choir CD as a digital download through CDBaby.

HMS Pinafore Cast Picture

Cast & Crew for HMS Pinafore

HMS Pinafore - Sneak Peek!

We tried the costumes for the first time on Friday. Mostly with improper footwear (or in some cases no footwear at all!) but it still gave us a good idea of what we will look like on stage.  Overall enthusiasm remains high and we look forward to some amazing live performances next week!

The leads pose for a quick photo-op with Susan Schmidt Goertz. Susan came in to help with some vocal coaching. Susan is the Ministry Arts Director at Bethany College in Hepburn. Thank so much Susan!

Just how DO you wear these hats?!

Richard gives instruction to the sailors. The sailor's outfits were designed and built by Gwen Ens and Denise Epp. THANK YOU! The rest of the costumes were rented from Harlequin in Winnipeg.

Buttercup comes on board.

Captain Corcoran and his gallant crew.

Sir Joseph is the monarch of the sea.

CD 2013 - This Is My Song!

Order your RJC Choir 2013 Choir CD by calling the office and giving your credit card information.

Mastering will take place next week and the CDs will be ready by exam time in June. CDs are $15 each and make great keepsakes for the students and gifts for parents or grandparents!

Cover art is by Grade 10 student Hayley Johnston.

Saskatoon High School Choir Festival

You know, schools need to do this more often. We always hear how athletics build character and camaraderie, but that would be mostly true within the context of your own team. But put some choirs together and you get a real sense of group building. Sure, each choir steps up to do their best in the presence of their peers. But they also listen intently to the other choirs and truly wish each choir to sing well. And then you put them together to actually work together in harmony and voila - you have built a group dynamic that transcends the individual. The singers give up a bit of the "me" to become the "we." This is a POWERFUL statement that can change the way to view the world in all its diversity.

Sunday's Saskatoon High School Choir Festival at Grace-Westminster Church was exactly that! What a privilege to be invited to participate! The mass choir was directed by Dr. Scott Finch from Briercrest College. Each choir also performed on their own.

The Mass Choir under the direction of Dr. Scott Finch. The schools represented are Bedford Road Collegiate, Centennial Collegiate, Mount Royal Collegiate, Tommy Douglas Collegiate and Rosthern Junior College.

Centennial Collegiate Choir directed by Stacey Mortenson.

Mount Royal Collegiate Choir directed by Allison Lacelle.

Centennial Collegiate Vocal Jazz Ensemble directed by Cameron Milner.

RJC Chorale directed by Richard Janzen

Chorale performed "Motion" by Ragnar Rasmussen.

We tried a new formation for this concert.

Paradise sang "City Called Heaven" with Brandon at the piano.

A close-up of Chorale.

The Mass Choir closed the concert - "This is my song!"

We Day Rehearsal with Cirque Du Soleil

NOTE: watch the LIVE webcast of the entire We Day rally from CUC in Saskatoon on Wednesday morning February 27 at www.weday.com. RJC's part will be between 11am and 12 noon.

This video is from Tuesday's rehearsal for RJC's part in "We Day" at the Credit Union Centre in Saskatoon. The first part is a Cirque Du Soleil solo followed by the RJC students singing "One Drop - Hymn To The World."

It was cool to work with Cirque Du Soleil artistic director Catherine Ledoux (awesome French accent!)

Festival of Choirs!

What an awe-inspiring concert at Third Ave Centre yesterday in Saskatoon. Sonrisa, A Buncha Guys and CMU Men's Chorus joined Chorale and ManChoir for an afternoon of amazing singing.  Third Avenue United Church was full to its beautiful rafters.

Chorale opened the concert with "A City Called Heaven" with Paradise singing solo. Richard Janzen (Alumnus of CMU) is directing.

Ragnar Rasmussen's "Motion" was a hit. Thanks RJC Alumnus Jordan Wiens for joining us on this one.

Third Avenue United Church is a stunning building with beautiful architecture and acoustics. Some call in "Saskatoon's Carnegie Hall." Audrey Falk Janzen is on the piano.

RJC ManChoir belted out "Hallelujah to the King of Kings!" by Ron Kenoly.

ManChoir's close up.

Sonrisa is directed by RJC & CMU Alumnus Lynne Driedger-Enns with Brenda Epp on the piano.

A Buncha Guys are led by RJC Alumni Russ & Val Regier.

CMU Men's Chorus "O Sifuni Mungu." CMU is directed by Dr. Rudy Schellenberg.

The pipe organ makes a beautiful backdrop to the choirs.

Lynne Driedge-Enns directed the combined women of RJC and Sonrisa in Hal Hopsons' arrangment of "The Gift of Love."

The Mass Choir filled the stage. Here Richard Janzen directs Franz Biebl's "Ave Maria."

A close-up of RJC Music Director Richard Janzen directing the Mass Choir.

Russ Regier rocked the house directing the combined Men's Choirs in "He Never Failed Me Yet!"

A special moment for RJC Principal Jim Epp (an alumnus of RJC and CMU) who could sing in the mass choir with his three sons.

Dr. Rudy Schellenberg finished the concert with Hal Hopson's "Prayer of Thankful Praise," a beautiful and fitting prayer to end the afternoon.

RJC and CMU enjoy a special relationship which we hope to continue to foster. Thank you to our wonderful audience and dedicated supporters who filled Third Ave yesterday!