Women joining together in a spirit of sisterhood to sing beautiful music that both challenges and inspires.
Women of Note (WoN) is an auditioned community choir in Winnipeg, Manitoba for women of all ages and varying levels of choral experience. Our choir provides an opportunity for women to join together in a spirit of sisterhood to sing beautiful music that both inspires and challenges.
Founded in 1994 by Patricia Rabson, WoN provides an enriched choral experience in three performance groups to facilitate the individual needs of choristers: The choir follows a two-term rehearsal schedule commencing in September and January, with a holiday concert in early December and a spring concert held in early May. Workshops and massed choir rehearsals are held periodically throughout each term. The choir also performs for community outreach and by invitation. |
Women of Note Chorale
Women of Note Chamber Singers
Women of Note Massed Choir
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Kristen Schellenberg
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Patricia Rabson, founder and artistic director from 1994-2024 of Women of Note, conducted all three ensembles. Pat became involved in choral activity as a young singer in the Winnipeg Girls' Choir and became well known as a singer, conductor, choral clinician, and adjudicator throughout Manitoba and Canada. She taught music and conducted many school choirs and several community choirs, including the Winnipeg Girls' Junior Choir and the Winnipeg Boys' Choir. Patricia sang, often as a soloist, in many choirs including: the Baltimore Choral Art Society, the Winnipeg Singers, the Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir and the Gilbert and Sullivan Society. She served as president for the Manitoba Choral Association and the Board of the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre. Pat also served on the executive committee of the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors and on the Board of Manitoba Opera.
Women of Note is grateful to Pat Rabson for founding our choir and her three decades of dedication to our Sisterhood in Song. |
Women of Note acknowledges that we gather to sing and enjoy music on Treaty One Territory, the home and traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene Peoples, and on the homeland of the Metis Nation. We commit to moving forward harmoniously with Indigenous communities in a spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.
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Women of note569 Buckingham rd
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