Congratulations Reeny Smith, Helios Ensemble (Eszther Horvath) and Port Cities (Breagh Mackinnon) on your nomination for Music Nova Scotia Awards

Congratulations to all Music Nova Scotia Award Nominees!

Former Scholarship recipients are nominated for the following Music Nova Scotia Awards:

Delta Halifax & Delta Barrington Entertainer of the Year

• Port Cities (Band member Breagh Mackinnon 2013 NSTT Chico Berardi Award)
• Reeny Smith (Talent Trust 2010 Portia White Award)

African Nova Scotian Artist of the Year - Sponsored by the Town of Truro Diversity Advisory Committee

• Reeny Smith (Talent Trust 2010 Portia White Award)

Digital Artist of the Year - Sponsored by HAF Skate and Tattoo/Jimolly's Bakery Cafe

• Port Cities (Band member Breagh Mackinnon 2013 NSTT Chico Berardi Award)

Group Recording of the Year

• Port Cities - "Port Cities" (Band member Breagh Mackinnon 2013 NSTT Chico Berardi Award)

Music Video of the Year

• Dave Sampson & Port Cities - "Trouble" (Director: Mat Barkley)

Recording of the Year - Sponsored by My Home Apparel

• Port Cities - "Port Cities" (Band member Breagh Mackinnon 2013 NSTT Chico Berardi Award)

Classical Recording of the Year

• Helios Vocal Ensemble - "An Illuminated Christmas" (member Eszther Horvath 2016 Kenneth Elloway Award)

Pop Recording of the Year - Sponsored by Open Hearth Park

• Port Cities - "Port Cities" (Band member Breagh Mackinnon 2013 NSTT Chico Berardi Award)

The full list of nominees can be found at https://nsmw.ca/music-nominees/

and https://nsmw.ca/industry-nominees/

Eszter Horvath to perform with Helios Vocal Ensemble on January 29, 2017 at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts

Photo and information from Cecilia Concerts website

Cecilia Concerts
January 29, 2017 – 2:00PM

Helios Vocal Ensemble

Eszter Horvath, Elisabeth Stones, Andrew Pickett, Garth MacPhee, and John Mark Dawson

Helios is Atlantic Canada’s premier vocal ensemble, performing sacred and secular music, specializing in Renaissance polyphony, a fluid and unifying musical language defining its time. The group’s classical a cappella concerts have been a hit across the Maritimes.

Eszter Horvath won the 2016 NSTT Kenneth Elloway Award. 

Concert LocationLilian Piercey Concert Hall
Maritime Conservatory of the Performing Arts
6199 Chebucto Road
Halifax, Nova Scotia

More information can be found on the Cecilia Concert website at https://www.ceciliaconcerts.ca/product/january-29-2017-200pm-helios-vocal-quintet-eszter-horvath-elisabeth-kleven-andrew-pickett-garth-macphee-john-mark-dawson/

Eszter Horvath to perform Dec 17, 2016 with Helios Vocal Ensemble in Halifax

Helios Vocal Ensemble presents An Illuminated Christmas
on 
Saturday, Dec 17, 7:30 pm 
at 
St. George's Round Church, 
2222 Brunswick St, Halifax. 
Admission is by donation.

"An Illuminated Christmas" offers an evening of beauty and calm within the busy holiday season, in the warm, bright acoustics of Saint George's Round Church. This year’s programme will feature Renaissance polyphony by Byrd, Gabrieli, Praetorius and others, as well as carols ancient and modern from the Old and New Worlds. 

Founded in 2015, Helios Vocal Ensemble is Atlantic Canada’s premier vocal ensemble, performing sacred and secular music from the Renaissance and beyond. Its members include Eszter Horvath, former music director at All Saints Cathedral, Halifax; Elisabeth Stones, National Youth Choir alumna; Andrew Pickett, former lay clerk at Manchester Cathedral; Garth MacPhee, music director at St George’s Round Church, Halifax; and John Mark Dawson, former boy chorister at Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa. They made their Indian River Festival début in 2016, and will perform for Cecilia Concerts and the Three Churches Festival in 2017. 

Eszter Horvath is the 2016 Kenneth Elloway Award winner.