About Coastal Sound Music

The mission of Coastal Sound Music is to transform lives and build community through choral music and group singing. Singers are challenged through the pursuit of choral music artistry and high quality music education, while at the same time nurtured to be kind, caring, compassionate and committed humans.

Singers are grouped by age and experience. All of the choirs at Coastal Sound offer learner-centred instruction by professional music educators, vocal coaches and conductors. We aim to meet the unique musical, intellectual and social needs of all singers. Some of our singers come through our programs and then go on to pursue successful careers as Soloists, Opera singers, Music Educators or Choristers in professional choirs. All singers gain valuable life-skills, confidence, connections and reap the health benefits that choir offers.

We believe in singing for one’s whole life! We have seven singing groups to accommodate a variety of ages and abilities, including a song-play group for children as young as 4 years old, an auditioned Chamber Choir, a non-auditioned community choir for adults, and choirs for teens and youth.

Over the organization’s 36 year history, singers’ lives have been transformed by memorable experiences and adventures: from recording sessions to singing at esteemed ceremonies like the Olympics; from formal concerts to entertaining community festival crowds; from working with Canadian composers and respected conductors, to accompanying Michael Bublé on his Holiday special. Singers have literally sung together on a mountain top and the sea floor during Canadian tours. We present ten formal performances a season, in addition to touring, workshops and community shows.

Promoting Canadian composers and arrangers, and singing Canadian music is a focus for Coastal Sound. Each season we commission and perform new Canadian music, and highlight Canadian works in our programming. In recent years, our focus has expanded to include commissions by composers who represent voices that have been marginalized in the traditional choral canon. 

Coastal Sound Music Academy is a registered non-profit Society.  BN: 890176043RR0001