St. Michael's Choir School Alumni Association

Spots are filling up quickly for the SMCS Alumni & Friends Golf Tournament on May 29th! Registration closes on May 23rd at 5 PM. Don't delay - register today!

2025 SMCS Alumni and Friends Golf Tournament SMCS Alumni and Friends Golf Tournament on Thursday, May 29, 2025 at the Caledon Country Club.

Join us this Friday at 7 PM for Let the People Praise Thee - our last concert of the school year. The concert is free, but donations are welcome!

THE JOURNEY Since 1937, St. Michael’s Choir School (SMCS) has nurtured creativity, academic achievement and musical excellence in a unique faith-based environment. Locat...

A note from Jim Codrington

Dear Alumnus,

Sadly, Robert De Cicco (Class of '82) passed away Sunday evening after a year-and-a-half battle with brain cancer.

Rob and I started the Choir School in Grade 5 and were inseparable through to Grade 8 when his family moved north of the city and he attended a different school. He returned to the Choir School for Grade 10 but then finished high school in his new neighborhood.

Rob (or at least Rob's voice) became a fixture over the Toronto airwaves when he transitioned from being an On-Air DJ in smaller Ontario markets to becoming the traffic reporter Guy Valentine -or "Guy in the Sky" as he was affectionately known- to (primarily) CFRB listeners for decades.

In later years, Rob returned enthusiastically to the SMCS Alumni fold singing (and even dancing!) with the Alumni at Massey Hall, DJing the 2020 Valentine's Day "Extrava-Bands-A!", and participating in Bob's Alumni Golf Classic among other activities.

His family has requested that the Alumni sing at his funeral which will be on:

Funeral:
Friday, January 19th
9:30am (choir rehearsal @ 8:30am)
St. Peter's Church, 100 Bainbridge Ave, Woodbridge

Visitation:
Thurs. January 18, 2-4pm & 6-9pm
Bernardo Funeral Home(Albion Chapel) 855 Albion Rd. Etobicoke

Please contact me as soon as possible at [email protected] if you are able to join the choir so that the music can be prepared.

Keep well and God Bless, gentlemen.

Jim Codrington('82)

Great day today for the Alumni and Friends Golf Tournament ! Thank you to all of our sponsors, those that came to golf , and to the Golf Committee for organizing a fantastic day!

Massimo, a grade 11 student shared his perspective on what the return to school, and singing meant to him with Toronto Life Magazine and alumnus Luc Rinaldi. Massimo’s story can be found here: https://torontolife.com/city/it-was-such-a-thrill-to-hear-our-voices-echo-through-the-cathedral-again-this-16-year-old-reunited-with-his-choir-after-a-year-apart/

Choral varié sur “Veni Creator” Maurice Duruflè (Manuel Piazza, Organ) Manuel Giovanni Piazza is a graduate student at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music in New Haven, Connecticut where he studies with Martin Jean and serves as...

Calling all SMCS Alumni, our LinkedIn Page has changed, you can now indicate that you are an SMCS Alumni!

St. Michael's Choir School | LinkedIn St. Michael's Choir School | 63 followers on LinkedIn. Founded in 1937,St. Michael's Choir School is a gr 3-12 all boys catholic school located in the heart of Toronto. | Since 1937, St. Michael’s Choir School has served the Archdiocese of Toronto by educating and training the boys’ choirs that ...

Dear SMCS Alumni Association Members,

Please see the Missing Persons information below for Alumnus Karol Jankowski (Class of 2000). At the request of his brother Stan (Class of 2003), anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-1100, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-416-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com

Our thoughts and prayers for Karol's safe return are with the Jankowski family at this time.

Sincerely,

The SMCS Alumni Association

Please join us for the Alumni Association’s Tenebrae Service and Responsories which will be available for viewing tonight at 7PM on the St. Michael's Choir School YouTube Channel.

Under the artistic production of Joshua Tamayo (SMCS Class of 2003), the video highlights the musical recording of the Choir School from 1985 as conducted by Harry Hodson (SMCS Class of 1960) and feature a host of talented individuals, most notably an introduction by Jim Codrington (SMCS Class of 1982) and Douglas Tranquada (SMCS Class of 1974) singing the Lamentations. His Eminence Cardinal Thomas Collins will read the ninth and final reading for the Service.

TENEBRAE SERVICE and RESPONSORIES | Monsignor John Edward Ronan ST. MICHAEL’S CHOIR SCHOOLIn Association With TheARCHDIOCESE OF TORONTO PresentsA ST. MICHAEL’S CHOIR SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ProductionThe ancient office ...

Here's another story - this one in the Star today - about how the school has adapted in COVID times!

When the shower curtain rises: How St. Michael’s Choir School keeps kids singing — and safe — amid COVID-19 From homemade “singing pods” to specialty singers’ masks, St. Michael’s Choir School gets creative in keeping its musical education program going duri...

Hey, check out the latest recruitment video from the Choir School featuring some fellow alum - Jim Codrington, Matt Dusk, James McKie. And, of course, news about the rebuild at 66 Bond about to get underway.

SMCS Recruitment 2021