Summer choral festival

OPEN TO ALL CHORISTERS

AUGUST 1-8, 2026

Victoria, BC, CANADA

Join us!

Join us for the choral highlight of the summer: the week-long SING THE NORTH SUMMER CHORAL FESTIVAL with HOWARD DYCK in beautiful Victoria, B.C!

The STN Summer Choral Festival is a thrilling event for choral singers featuring a 100-voice festival chorus, chamber choirs, consort singing, choral skills workshops, social events, and more!

We are thrilled to announce that soprano ANDREA HAINES, formerly of Voces8, is joining the 2026 festival. Andrea will give a choral workshop to our Festival Chorus on Sunday August 2.

The Festival finishes with a public performance with orchestra in towering Christ Church Cathedral with world-leading soloists and orchestra, under the direction of our principal conductor, choral legend HOWARD DYCK.

Meet our faculty & soloists

Howard Dyck

Andrea Haines

Karoline Podolak

Janelle Lucyk

Daniel Taylor

Alexander Dobson

Katerina Gimon

Nancy Argenta

Kathryn Whitney

Kinza Tyrrell

Adam Dyjach

Timothy Carter

Felix Butterfield

2026 Faculty

Howard Dyck, Principal Conductor
Andrea Haines, Clinician
Nancy Argenta, Clinician
Katerina Gimon, Feature Composer
Daniel Taylor, Conductor & Clinician
Kinza Tyrrell, pianist & coach
Jany Lu, pianist
Kathryn Whitney, Artistic Director, Conductor

2026 Soloists

Karoline Podolak, Soprano Soloist
Janelle Lucyk, Soprano Soloist
Daniel Taylor, Counter-tenor
Alexander Dobson, Bass Soloist
Felix Butterfield, Tim Carter & Adam Dyjach, Tenor soloists

About the festival

The Sing the North Summer Choral Festival is a week-long choral intensive for choristers culminating in a large-scale performance with a 100+-voice Festival Chorus, Chamber Choirs and orchestra in beautiful Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria, BC.

Now in our 6th year, we offer singers a thrilling week of fast-moving rehearsals, innovative choral skill-building sessions, intensive work with our feature composers, and social events set against the backdrop of one of the most picturesque cities in Canada.

Singers have the unprecedented opportunity to rehearse and perform under Canadian choral legend Howard Dyck, as well as a full team of world-class conductors, clinicians and soloists, including Daniel Taylor and Nancy Argenta, all led by our Artistic Director, Kathryn Whitney.

what are we singing?

This year’s Festival celebrates the joyful music of G. F. Handel, including the thrilling Dixit Dominus, the Utrecht Jubilate, and Zadok the Priest.

We are also singing music by the prolific 17th-century Venetian composer and singer Barbara Strozzi, known for her superb vocal writing.

Our 2026 STN Feature Composer is the acclaimed Vancouver-based composer, improviser and singer, Katerina Gimon, who will be with us during the festival.

How does it work?

Singers can join us as Full-time or Part-time choristers, or Observers.

Full-time choristers sing in the Festival Chorus, and Chamber Choirs, and attend workshops, choral skills sessions, bring & sing lunchtime concerts, and social events.

Part-time choristers sing in the Festival Chorus and are welcome at all social events.