Jazz & Tapas

Join us Saturday, May 11, 2024, 4 to 6pm at 130 Glebe Avenue, Ottawa. Featuring Singer Diane Nalini, Bassist Adrian Cho, Saxophonist Mike Tremblay. Small Silent Auction.

Tickets $60 (students $40) includes food & a drink (wine, beer, mocktail).

Proceeds from the performance supports St. Matthew's projects and the Black Canadian Scholarship Fund.

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Eastertide Hymnfest

The hymnfest was held on Sunday, April 14 at 4pm and featured hymns of the Easter season. As well as Easter hymns to sing for the whole congregation, there was arrangements for organ and piano and also a few choir anthems based on hymns. Our musical guest was organist Matthew Larkin.

St. Matthew’s Welcomes Toronto’s Hart House Orchestra, Saint-Saëns Third (Organ) Symphony:

St. Matthew’s was delighted to welcome the Hart House Orchestra from the University of Toronto on Saturday, Feb. 17, 7:30pm. The featured work on the program was Symphony Number 3 (Organ Symphony) by French composer and organist/pianist Camille Saint-Saëns. The orchestra was conducted by Henry Janzen, Music Director and Principal Conductor, who performed as a violist during St. Matthew’s Lenten Recital Series last year. The pipe organ was played by St. Matthew’s Director of Music Robert Hall. The program also included Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No. 2, featuring clarinetist Sean Lin, and Hector Berlioz’s Overture to Benvenuto Cellini.

Proceeds from the performance supported the ongoing maintenance of the pipe organ at St. Matthew’s.

St. Matthew’s Choir - Beatles Tribute

On Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, 7:30pm, St. Matthew’s Anglican Church in the Glebe hosted a tribute to the Beatles, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Fab Four’s first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. The evening featured projections of video excerpts from the original broadcast on February 9, 1964. The show broke the record at the time for TV viewership and was a milestone of American pop culture. St. Matthew’s choir will be featured in the concert and the audience will be given the chance to sing along with such favourites as Michelle and Yesterday. Conducted by St. Matthew’s Director of Music, Robert Hall, with special guests singer Rebecca Noelle and Dave Renaud on clarinet and sax.

Proceeds from the performance supported the ongoing maintenance of the pipe organ at St. Matthew’s.

Coronation Music Concert

St. Matthew’s hosted a choral concert featuring coronation music of the past to recognize King Charles III’s coronation. The concert was presented Sunday, April 30, 2023, 7pm.

St. Matthew’s Choir was conducted by Director of Music, Robert Hall and Nick Veltmeyer will be the guest organist. The central works in this concert were Handel’s four coronation anthems, originally performed at the coronation of King George II in 1727. Probably the most famous of these is the stirring anthem Zadok the Priest.

The program will also include works by Anglo-Canadian organist and composer Healey Willan, composed in 1953 to honour the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and Hubert Parry’s anthem I Was Glad. Rounding out the program will be a transcription of the exciting Crown Imperial by William Walton.

Lenten Recital Series 2023

Lent is the Christian season of spiritual preparation leading up to Easter. During this season of reflection, we welcomed you to this intimate chamber music series.

Friday, February 24, 7pm

Michael Zappavigna (flute) with Robert Hall (baritone soloist and piano) and Henry Janzen (viola). Flights of Fancy. This concert included the Ottawa premiere of Robert Hall’s The Lonely Landfor baritone, flute and viola. Poetry about the Canadian north by early Canadian poets is set to music in this remarkable piece.

Friday, March 17, 7pm

Henry Janzen (viola) with Robert Hall (piano and organ). Music to Die For

Friday, March 31, 7pm

Lisa Hornung (contralto) with Robert Hall (piano). On Wings of Song

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

This lovely festival of ancient and modern choral music and readings, celebrates the Advent of Christ. The service is sung by the choir of St. Matthew’s with hymns sung by the choir and the congregation, and readings done by members of the congregation and clergy.

2023 Nine Lessons and Carols 

Advent Lessons and Carols

Advent is a time of spiritual preparation as we watch and wait for the fullness of the Kingdom of God in our lives and in the world. Through the Holy scriptures and sacred music, we journey for the early prophesies of the Hebrew scriptures through to the announcement of Jesus’ birth. The service is sung by the St. Matthew’s choir and the readings are done by members of the congregation.

2021 Advent Lessons and Carols