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Andrew Balfour
Karine Beaudette

Andrew Balfour is the founder, conceptual creator, arranger and Artistic Director of Camerata Nova. He has a wide variety of choral experience, including extensive coaching and clinician work with a variety of choirs in Winnipeg through the Seven Oaks School Division and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. He was the curator of the WSO's very first Indigenous Festival, held in April 2009.

Andrew has been involved extensively in editing and arranging music for 20 years. Since Camerata Nova's inception in 1996, he has specialized in arrangements of medieval, Renaissance, early Baroque and Byzantine choral music. Andrew has also produced many experimental arrangements using unusual instruments in conjunction with voice. Camerata Nova is proud to possess a unique choral library, of which many pieces are Balfour arrangements.

Andrew, of Cree descent, started writing his own compositions in 1998. Since then, he has written a great number of choral, instrumental and orchestral works, including Gregorio’s Nightmare, Raven Can Tango, Wa Wa Tey Wak (Northern Lights), Fantasia on a Poem by Rumi, Missa Brevis, Kihewetaniy (Eagle Feather), and Voice of the Lake. Many of Andrew’s works have been broadcast locally, nationally and internationally. As well, several are featured on Camerata Nova's recordings. Each year, his passion and skill for writing have increased and he now considers this his main form of musical expression.

In 2007, Andrew received the Mayor of Winnipeg’s Making a Mark Award, sponsored by the Winnipeg Arts Council to recognize the most promising midcareer artist in the city.

 
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Medieval Inuit

Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. -- Pre-concert stories of the North 45 minutes before each concert
Précieux-Sang Church (200 Kenny Street, in St. Boniface)
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Camerata Nova has changed its phone number. Whether it is to buy a subscription or individual tickets, to donate to the group or to get details about the...

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In Spring 2002, Camerata Nova launched its first CD! A true Camerata Nova sampler, it contains more than...
 

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