Media Advisory
November 19, 2007
For Immediate Release
260 member choir performs at Dufferin-Peel Vocal Festival
On November 21, the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board’s Secondary School Music Subject Council will host the first-ever board-wide Vocal Festival at St. Maximillian Kolbe R.C. Parish in Mississauga. Over 260 secondary students will participate in the day-long event, which will include sectional rehearsals led by Dufferin-Peel music teachers and a performance by the mass choir, conducted by Lee Willingham, a renowned choir conductor and professor at Wilfred Laurier University.
WHAT: Dufferin-Peel Vocal Festival
WHEN: Wednesday, November 21
9:30 a.m. - 1:45 p.m.
WHERE: St. Maximillian Kolbe R.C. Parish
4260 Cawthra Road, Mississauga
The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board is one of largest and most diverse school districts in Ontario, with approximately 88,000 students in 144 Catholic schools throughout Mississauga, Brampton, Caledon and Orangeville. With over 10,000 employees, the board is also one of the largest employers in the region.
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For information contact: Mark Spisic, Teacher, St. Aloysius Gonzaga S.S.
(905) 820-3900
Nancy Marshall, Communications Officer
(905) 890-0708 ext. 24278 or (416) 540-8126