May 23rd and 24th, “Spring Fever.” 2025
Spring Fever, Love is in the air.
The birds are singing, the frogs are peeping, the breezes are blowing and your local community choir is joining together to sing songs about love.
It’s Spring and Command Performance has a fever. They have put together a wonderful evening of music – from traditional tunes of long ago to the newest contemporary art song being sung by any choir anywhere. Don’t miss this night out to experience the best in choral music.
All the great composers have written music celebrating love, the different types of love; family, self, romantic, unrequited, thwarted, patriotic, country, nature, universe…. and the choir has a song about it to share with you this season. These love themes combine with amazing renditions by names famous in the classics to the pop culture of our day. Vaughn-Williams to Michael Jackson, Irving Berlin to Elton John, Sir John Rutter to Kirby Shaw – the choir has been having a grand time interpreting every style the greats have to offer. This concert brings chorales, madrigals, folk songs, anthems, cool jazz, modern pop, and even rock together for an entertaining evening filled with the songs that make our hearts throb. To top the evening off, the Choir will introduce a beautiful, new and powerful contemporary piece by young composer Jason Michael Saunders, interpreting our human love of earth, sea and sky. Love is in the air!
Friday May 23rd, and Saturday May 24th, 7:30 pm. St. Mary Magdalene Anglican Church, Picton.
Tickets available via our website using etransfer, from choir members or at the door.
Tickets purchased via etransfer will be held at the door under your name.
To purchase tickets now, etransfer the total amount for the tickets required to the email cpchoirpicton@gmail.com
Please enter your name and the number of tickets and performance date in the etransfer message.
For the requested question use ‘ what concert ‘ and the password is ‘ spring ‘ , all in lower case.
Your email receipt of the etranfer will be your proof of purchase at the door.
The Choir is now accepting new members for the Fall of 2025 season.
Please use the Contact tab on this page for your enquiries.
We are now accepting new members! If you are interested in joining or re-joining, please use the contact us page. Please note you must be fully vaccinated per Ontario Health guidelines to participate.
Command Performance is Prince Edward County’s community choir, founded in 1988. The choir was formed by a small group of local singers who had come together with various artists and groups from as far away as Kingston to perform in the Quinte Summer Music festival. To date, we have fifty members from all over the County as well as from Trenton and Belleville.
The choir is committed to providing a variety of music for a Christmas and a Spring Show. The choir has always reached out to the community to sing at other venues and this year we have actively sought out opportunities to make such appearances.
Moira Nikander-Forrester, BA, B Ed.
The director since 2003 has brought to the choir a tremendous amount of energy as well as artistically challenging music with many different styles and genres. Moira has a wealth of experience as a music teacher in the County and Belleville schools and is very active in the Belleville musical theater field.
Shelley MacKenzie-Coates, B. Mus., B. Ed., M. Ed., ARCT,
A member of the choir since 2022, Shelley is pleased to now be supporting the choir as accompanist. Shelley has been involved in musical activities and roles since a child, including piano instructor, Youth Theatre, church and community choir director, and accompanist. Shelley enjoyed a rewarding career with the Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board in the roles of Secondary Music and English teacher, Curriculum Co-ordinator, and finally, School Administrator. Retirement is allowing Shelley the opportunity to return to her musical roots with Command Performance Choir and the Belleville Theatre Guild’s musical theatre productions.
Rehearsals are held on Monday Evenings from 7:00 to 9:00 PM. In order to ensure balance between sections we would need to hear your voice to ensure that there would be a good fit for both the needs of the choir and you as an individual. Please fill out the contact form if you would like to be on the waiting list and potentially join our choir.