Music
School Tours
Touring has been a part of the St. Michael’s Choir School tradition since the first concert outside of Toronto, an overnight junket to Ottawa in 1946. Tours began to take boys to international destinations in 1967. Tours large and small have built relationships between the Choir School and parishes all over the world, but the principles of touring remain the same: respect, excellence and “an experience of music for the praise of God in Jesus Christ”. The concept of tours by the Choir School led Monsignor Peter Somerville to say that they served to bind the group together by giving the boys an ambition to achieve excellence in their music in settings other than St. Michael’s Cathedral. Monsignor Somerville also felt that the tours, whether within or outside Canada, helped to put the School “on the map” in a way that had not been possible before, even though it was recognized for the excellence of its liturgical work in the Cathedral.
For more information on the school’s tour history, please click here.
UK23 Tour - April 19 - May 1, 2023
Germany Tour
The SMCS Senior Choir and the Regensburger Domspatzen performance of Totus tuus by SMCS alumnus Peter Togni ’77 conducted by Teri Dunn on Sunday, May 7, 2017 at Cathedral St. Peter, Regensburg, Germany.
Past tours:
Buffalo - New York | April 25 - May 1, 2019
Newfoundland | Junior Choir at Podium | June 27 - July 4, 2018
London | Sarnia | Detroit | Windsor | April 24 - May 1, 2018
Germany | April 30 - May 13, 2017
Montreal | Arnprior | Ottawa
April 4-11, 2016
Photo credit: Sebastien Duckett
Newfoundland, May 19-28, 2015
Photo credit: Sebastien Duckett
Boston, April 30-May 8, 2013
Photo credit: Sebastien Duckett
Italy, April 1-12, 2013
Ottawa (PODIUM Choral Celebration), 2012
Nova Scotia, 2012