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Musique Royale welcomes the award-winning ArtChoral vocal quartet from June 25th to 28th, as part of its 41st Summer Festival. ArtChoral has provided outstanding choral music to cities and communities in all 10 Canadian provinces and 3 territories.

The upcoming touring program entitled “Here comes the sun” invites audiences to bask in the harmonies of professional a capella singing with gems spanning from the renaissance and baroque eras into present time, including a collection the quartet’s favourite songs by the Beatles.

Recipient of the PRIX OPUS Musical Event of the Year, ArtChoral is a professional vocal ensemble steeped in the grand tradition of choral music in Quebec. The touring vocal quartet is in residence at Montreal’s magnificent Art Deco concert hall, Le 9e Grande Salle.

Concerts take place at historic venues in Iona, Sherbrooke, River John, Wolfville and Blue Rocks.

Janelle Lucyk, soprano, has “an angelic voice. Her expressiveness is beyond words.”

Rosalie Lane Lépine, mezzo-soprano, is hailed for her “rare perfection of style and spirit” (Christophe Huss, Le Devoir)

Kerry Bursey, tenor, described as a “mega musical talent” (NRC, Netherlands), with a voice of “sweet troubadour-like reverie” – Ôlyrix, France

William Kraushaar, bass, described as “a revelation thanks to his charisma and his powerful, impressive voice”.