About us

The “COLLEGIUM CANTORUM - Women’s Choir” was founded by Helma Haller, in the year 2000, in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba. Collegium Cantorum has gotten national and international attention for its research and dissemination of concert music from Brazil and its State, Parana, including music debuts from contemporary Brazilian composers, as well as for its musical proposals filled with interpretational originality and refinement. The members of the choir are professional musicians, most of whom are actively working in pedagogical areas, thereby keeping themselves up-to-date with their own artistic education. It should be highlighted that the concerts are increased with interest and dramatic appeal because of their unique postures, choreographic movement or scenes that aim to be closer to the spectators, creating an ideal environment for understanding the message.
Collegium Cantorum has several projects of cultural incentive that have already been implemented with the support of sponsors like Petrobrás, Banco do Brasil, Econorte and Perkons, among others. There are about 200 songs included in the whole of Collegium Cantorum’s repertoire and 150 events performed in its 9 years of existence. One of Cantorum’s highlights was to be chosen to represent Brazil in the “4. Internationale Festtage Geistlicher Chormusik”, in Germany. With “Akademiechor und Orchester Stuttgart”, Cantorum presented two concerts in Swizerland for an audience of 7000.

In January 2008, Collegium Cantorum recorded its first CD Ecos da Fé na Alma Brasileira (Echoes of Faith in the Brazilian Soul). In 2010 recorded the CD Natal Brasileiro (Brazilian Christmas). In july 2012 the women choir is going to participate as "stage choir" at the 7th World Choir Games 2012 Cincinnati, Ohio.
Direction:
Director/Conductor: Helma Haller
Assistant Conductor: Ana Cristina Lago
Project Manager: Maria Hermann Destefani
Scenic Adviser: Giovana Gregório and Camila Jorge