Christmas in the Chapel 2024
Date
Saturday, November 30, 2024
- Matinee 2:00 - 4:00 pm
- Evening 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Tickets
- Early bird (Before Nov 1) Matinee: $40 / Evening $50
- Regular (After Nov 1) Matinee: $50 / Evening $60
The Tyndale Community Choir
The Tyndale Community Choir (TCC) was founded in 2016 by Dr. Melissa Davis with a desire to unite Christian singers of various generations, cultures, and denominations throughout the Greater Toronto Area.
This dynamic 50-member multigenerational, multicultural, multidenominational mass choir has brought together Tyndale students, faculty, staff, and community members to serve Toronto's diverse population in music. Singing in concerts throughout the GTA, city-wide community events, worship services and university functions, the choir continues to spread the message of hope to all people.
The Tyndale Singers
The Tyndale Singers, directed by Dr. Melissa Davis, is a vibrant ministry team of Tyndale University’s gifted student vocalists. Dedicated to the ministry of the Gospel in song both on and off campus, the ensemble enjoys singing for university functions, leading the Tyndale campus in worship for weekly Chapel services and singing for concerts, city-wide community events, and worship services throughout the GTA, bringing the light of Christ to all communities.
Tyndale Community Choir Band
Toronto musicians Dr. Joy Lee, Abigail Ali (BA 2021) and Wayne Thompson form the Tyndale Community Choir Band.
Each expressing unique gifting and a wealth of experience in music ministry, this gifted trio unites as a vibrant part of the TCC family.
Laila Biali
Featured Artist
Dr. Melissa Davis
Canadian Mezzo Soprano Melissa Davis is an active concert soloist, vocal professor, choral director, vocal clinician and worship leader.
Awarded the distinguished Krannert Debut Artist Award by the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Illinois, Ms. Davis has guest soloed with Grammy and Juno-award-winning choirs and orchestras throughout North America including the Buffalo Philharmonic and Thunder Bay Symphony orchestras. She has toured internationally singing in concerts and productions in France, the UK, the Caribbean, the United States, and throughout Canada. Earning a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree from the University of Illinois, Dr. Davis has served as Director of the Music Department at Tyndale University, Professor of Voice at the University of Arkansas, and is currently Assistant Professor and Head of Vocal Performance at York University.
In 2015, Ms. Davis released her live solo debut album, City Called Heaven: An Evening of Songs and Spirituals, and in 2016, she became Founder, Artistic Director, and conductor of the 50-member Tyndale Community Choir, uniting Christian singers throughout the GTA. Dr. Davis has been vocal director of several theatre productions throughout North America and continues to receive numerous invitations to give vocal clinics, masterclasses, and lectures at national and international conferences.
Dedicated to the ministry of the Gospel through music, as a worship leader she continues to craft worship services that speak to multiethnic, multigenerational congregations.
Dr. Joy Lee
Canadian pianist Joy Lee enjoys a multi-faceted career as a collaborative pianist, teacher, soloist, adjudicator and scholar. She is a passionate advocate of music and has performed at events and venues ranging from the Canadian Embassy in Washington D.C. (as part of US President Barack Obama's inauguration celebration), to the Banff Centre for the Arts, to performance spaces in Inuvik and Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
Dr. Lee received BMus and MMus in solo piano from the University of Toronto and her love of the voice and its literature led her to pursue the second MMus in collaborative piano studies at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), as well as her Doctorate at the University of Toronto.
She is a Lecturer of Music and Worship Arts at Tyndale University and is dedicated to educating the next generation of musicians. She is a winner of the prestigious 2017 Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition (2nd) and 2018 Gwendolyn Williams Koldofsky Prize for her collaborative work.
In April 2023, she made her Carnegie Hall (NYC) debut as part of the Canada at Carnegie Concert. Dr. Lee and Stéphanie McKay-Turgeon, soprano, were invited to research and perform the music of the French composer, Henri Dutilleux, at the Maison Dutilleux-Joy in Candes-Saint-Martin, France, in November 2023.
Dr. Lee currently collaborates with the Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto, MacMillan Singers (University of Toronto) and Tyndale Community Choir (Tyndale University) and serves on the Board of Directors of the North Toronto Songbirds.