Sing! Laugh! Enjoy!

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The Joyful Voice Community Choir is an inclusive and open organization. Anyone is welcome to join us – just bring your love of singing. No audition or prior choral experience is required.

Our choir is truly a community organization. Its members are a representative cross-section of our diverse city. It is led by volunteers, sponsored by individual and business interests, performs both as a public service and to a broad audience, and supports those members of our community who need it the most.

Come out and see us – or better yet, join us, and be part of a fun and dynamic collective – one that values music, enjoys laughter, and brings the spirit of song to our community.

Joyful Voice in-person rehearsals take place on Monday evenings, starting January 29th going through to concert nights in May 2024.  As always, we’ll be rehearsing and performing at St. Paul’s Anglican Church at Jervis and Pendrell.

Our Music Director, Amy Stephen received her B.Mus. in voice and piano at UBC, and studied choral conducting with James Fankhauser. Amy was a member of the University Chamber Singers, and has appeared throughout the years with the Vancouver Chamber Choir, musica intima, the Vancouver Cantata Singers, and the One Human Family Gospel Choir.  As a featured soloist and instrumentalist, Amy has performed and recorded with Chor Leoni, Elektra, Laudate Singers and Capilano University Singers.

While living in Nanaimo from 2016-2019, Amy founded and directed the Phrase-ology Choir as well as the Island Baha’i Choir, and was director of the St. Paul’s Anglican Church chancel choir. Over the past 25 years Amy founded and directed the following choirs: the Aurora Celebration Choir, the Harp Circle Choir, and the Coquitlam Celebration Choir. Amy’s choral compositions and arrangements have been published by Hal Leonard and Cypress Publishing, and have been performed by choirs across North America. 

Amy was a founding member of Canadian celtic-funk ensemble Mad Pudding, and plays piano, accordion, celtic harp and penny whistle. She is a popular session musician and can be seen performing with various musical ensembles around Vancouver. Amy also teaches music in SD40. 

Nicola DaviesOur Piano Accompanist, Nicola Davies, is looking forward to the planning of the next session. Nicola is very accomplished in her profession.  She is a pianist, music director, and arts administrator.  She moved back to the Vancouver area a few years ago and was happy to have found Joyful Voice!  Beyond singing and playing with choirs, she spends most of her time in musical theatre, as a pianist and music director. She has a Masters in Collaborative Piano from the University of Manitoba, and is happy to finally be back on the West Coast again.

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