Chorale Joker
- Montréal (Québec), 2012
- Performer (choir)
- Christiane Charbonneau, Michel F Côté, François Couture, David Cronkite, Jean Derome, Gabriel Dharmoo, Géraldine Eguiluz, Lori Freedman, Joane Hétu, Kathy Kennedy, Diane Labrosse, Elizabeth Lima, Cléo Palacio-Quintin, Evelin Ramón, Danielle Palardy Roger, Pierre-Luc Senécal, Vergil Sharkya’, Alexandre St-Onge, Catherine Tardif, Ida Toninato
Founded in 2012 and directed by Joane Hétu, Chorale Joker is an a cappella choir comprising a dozen vocalists. This unconventional vocal ensemble explores vocal texture and timbre; rhythmic motifs; sound poetry; and extramusical sounds like breath, babbling, and mouth noise. Chorale Joker is invested in marginal sounds, peripheral territories, and the spaces between the tones of conventional choir singing, and does so not through established repertoire, but by inventing its own language to suit. Joane Hétu guides the singers through improvisation and aleatoric music with a variety of conducting gestures, while leaving considerable space for the performers’ imagination.
In Montréal
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Wednesday, February 24 – Sunday, August 15, 2021Online event
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Wednesday, March 25, 2020, 8:30 pm
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Thursday, March 5, 2020, 8:00 pm
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Sunday, May 19, 2019, 8:00 pm
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Friday, October 6, 2017, 8:00 pm
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Thursday, February 16, 2017, 7:00 pm