Caelis Academy Ensemble

CAELIS ACADEMY ENSEMBLE, Ottawa, Ontario, has offered performances of choral masterworks in the “cathedral” tradition of trebles choirs with professional and youth singers in support, since 2017, including Bach’s Mass in B minor, Magnificat, St. John and St. Mark Passions, and several Cantatas; Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem; Handel’s Saul, Solomon, Israel in Egypt, and numerous performances of Messiah; Duruflé’s Requiem and Messe Cum Jubilo, Haydn’s Missa in Tempore Belli and Theresienmesse; Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli, Victoria’s St. Matthew Passion, Pärt's Passio, and a large number of anthems, carols, motets, madrigals, part songs, and arrangements.

MATTHEW LARKIN, Founding Artistic Director, is an award-winning keyboardist, conductor, educator, and recording artist, based in Ottawa, Canada. He is a longtime liturgical musician, and a Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists. He is Organist of St. Andrew's Church and DoM at Annunciation Catholic Church in Ottawa.