Canterbury

Canterbury Choral Society was founded in 1952 by Charles Dodsley Walker, a musician, organist, and conductor. Canterbury's concerts bring together a unique combination of volunteer, semi-professional and professional singers and orchestra players. In 2014, Maestro Walker selected Jonathan De Vries, long-time collaborator with Canterbury Choral Society and well-respected conductor and music educator in New York City, as his successor. After Maestro Walker’s death in 2015, the Board of Directors named Mr. De Vries as the new Artistic Director and Conductor.The Canterbury Choral Society (CCS), initially a musical outreach project of Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York City, was created "for the purpose of presenting programs of the finest sacred choral music, to be given in church and with the required instrumental accompaniment.” Canterbury has performed over two hundred formal concerts and Canterbury singers have participated in scores of theatre productions, ceremonies and services throughout the metropolitan region