Editor's Note: After over 2 years rehearsing mostly online the United Nations Staff Recreation Council (UNRSC) had the opportunity to produce 6 virtual choir videos and run it again with live rehearsals and concerts. Since the Covid-19 pandemic from 2020, they hosted the first concert on the evening of November 4th.
The choir is flourishing. Please check out our video report.
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Born in Entre Ríos, Argentina. Choral conductor, accordionist, pianist, guitarist, bandleader, arranger, and teacher.
Guillermo Vaisman studied at the “Julián Aguirre” Conservatory of Music and the “Juan José Castro” Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires, and continued his studies at the School of Arts and Musical Sciences of the Universidad Católica Argentina. He completed further studies in choral conducting and participated in many workshops and courses given by distinguished professors in Argentina.
After relocating to New York in 2003, Guillermo Vaisman was appointed Music Director of the United Nations UNSCR Singers in 2004, an avocational group of UN employees which specializes in international folk music and tries to convey the central messages of the UN through concerts and concert tours.
He is a founding member of the Argentine Association of Choir Conductors (ADICORA), member of the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) and a member of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). He founded Cappella Buenos Ayres in 1994 and was its conductor until December 2002. In New York, he founded the chamber choirs Canopus Singers in 2005 and later Cappella Sur, mixed groups focusing on the choral literature of South America and Spain.
Over the past 30 years, Maestro Vaisman has conducted more than 600 concerts in Argentina, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Philippines, Spain, Switzerland, the United States and Uruguay, with repertoire including a cappella works from the entire breadth of choral literature, and especially traditional choral and folk music of South America.
Fall Concert Program ~ November 4th , 2022
1."Song of Peace" by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Text by Lloyd Stone • Finland
2."E si fa Sera" (It is the evening) - Words by Dante Pani - Music: Luigi De Marchi • Italy
3."Kalliolle Kukkullalle" (The Rock of the Hill). by Kaj Chydenius • Finland
4."Ye ke Omo Mi" (Do not cry, my child). Lullaby • Nigeria
5."Bozhe Velykyj Yedynyj" (A Prayer for Ukraine) by Mykola Lysenko. Words by Oleksandr Konysky • Ukraine
6."Otche Nash" (The Lord's Prayer) by Nikolai Kedrov (1871-1940) • Russia
7."Hirvoudou" (Lamentations) by César Geoffray (1901-1972) • France
8."And So it Goes" by Billy Joel. Arr. Bob Chilcott • U.S.A.
9."Moon River" by Henry Mancini. Arr. Ed Nepomuceno • U.S.A.
10."Good Night, Dear Heart" by Dan Forrest. Words by Robert Richardson & Mark Twain • U.S.A.
11."Embraceable You" by George & Ira Gershwin. Arr. Jan Johansson • U.S.A.
12."Lamma Badaa Yatathanna" (When She Begins to Sway). Traditional Andalusian/Arabic song. Arr. Joy Ondra Hirokawa.
13."Ani Dodi" (I’m my beloved’s) Yemenite tune. Excerpted from “The Song of Songs”.
14."Son de la Loma" (Son of the Mountain) by Miguel Matamoros (1894-1971). Arr. Electo Silva • Cuba
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