VIVA!’s six choirs, for ages four through adult, offer members the opportunity to achieve artistic excellence in a singer-centered, collaborative choral community, featuring youth mentoring programs and the TD Bank Group Inclusion Program. Founded in 2...  moreVIVA!’s six choirs, for ages four through adult, offer members the opportunity to achieve artistic excellence in a singer-centered, collaborative choral community, featuring youth mentoring programs and the TD Bank Group Inclusion Program. Founded in 2000 by Carol Woodward Ratzlaff in response to widespread cuts to public school arts programs, 2018-19 marks VIVA!’s 19th season as a downtown family of choirs. VIVA!’s choirs include: the Preparatory Chorus (ages 4-6); the Junior Choir (ages 6-10); the Main Chorus (ages 9-16); the SATB Chamber Choir (senior high school, University students and adults); and the non-auditioned VIVA! Community Choir (SATB) which incorporates Everyone Can Sing (ECS), an auditioned group for those aged 13 and up with disabilities. VIVA’s unique TD Bank Group Inclusion Program provides support for all Singers with disabilities. Also singular to VIVA! is the Choral Mentoring and Leadership Program, which forms an integral part of VIVA!’s structure. This Program provides young l...    less

Nova! Nova! by Bob Chilcott Performed by Exultate Singers http://www.exultateSingers.org Conducted by David Ogden This piece appears on Exultate Singers' Visions of Peace CD http://www.exultateSingers.org/recordings.php

One of my favorite choir tricks was to telling my Singers to ‘aim for the top side of the pitch.’  This was, of course, because they were singing flat, and I thought the imagery would give my Singers a way of thinking about an abstract co...

Recently established. We regularly sing in St. Mary's Church Haddington Rd. at the 18:00 Saturday Vigil mass. Our aim is to lead the congregation in singing of hymns & expose them to good sacred music through polyphonic motets & mass settings. ...  moreRecently established. We regularly sing in St. Mary's Church Haddington Rd. at the 18:00 Saturday Vigil mass. Our aim is to lead the congregation in singing of hymns & expose them to good sacred music through polyphonic motets & mass settings. We hope to branch out beyond the sacred music sphere in time  

Taymaz Saba and Andrei Diaconu were commissioned by Laudate Singers to co-write this piece. This dynamic piece includes all facets of our Voices, Sax & Syn concert: Singers, pre-recorded sound, two saxophones and synthesizer. Birds singing. Robotic voice...  moreTaymaz Saba and Andrei Diaconu were commissioned by Laudate Singers to co-write this piece. This dynamic piece includes all facets of our Voices, Sax & Syn concert: Singers, pre-recorded sound, two saxophones and synthesizer. Birds singing. Robotic voices. Percussion. Funky bass. Poignant harmonies. Expressive lyricism. Groovy syncopation. This is truly a modern setting of the Song of Mary! Turn it up for the best experience!! Synthesizer: Tim Tsang Alto saxophone: Campbell Ryga Tenor saxophone: Ross Taggart Conductor: Lars Kaario Laudate Singers (www.laudateSingers.com) Voices, Sax & Syn concert March 12, 2011 St Andrews United Church, North Vancouver, Canada  less

Performed by the Stellenbosch University Choir in the Endler Hall, Stellenbosch on 29 August 2010 as part of the Stellenbosch Choir Festival. For more info, go to: http://www.sun.ac.za/koor

Performance by the Mansfield University Concert Choir conducted by Peggy Dettwiler at the 2014 World Choir Games in Riga, Latvia. They won a gold medal and second place in the Spiritual Category.

MidAtlantic Chamber Choir Personnel: Jason C. Tramm, Conductor Soprano Paige Porter Veronica Shea Salkin Samantha Ferrara Hillary Baboukis Alto Kimberlee Korzelius Sophia Mortensen Irene Lyristakis Tenor Rider Foster Zachary Morehouse ...  moreMidAtlantic Chamber Choir Personnel: Jason C. Tramm, Conductor Soprano Paige Porter Veronica Shea Salkin Samantha Ferrara Hillary Baboukis Alto Kimberlee Korzelius Sophia Mortensen Irene Lyristakis Tenor Rider Foster Zachary Morehouse Jose Daniel Mojica Charles Bryan Kevin Courtemanche Bass Christian Arencibia Peter Lamendola Devin McGuire Skyler Klein Video/Audio Engineering: Quinton Tramm Recorded: June 4, 2022 Broadway Presbyterian Church (Manhattan) From Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought 1. Sonnet 30 Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye, unus'd to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe, And moan th' expense of many a vanish'd sight; Then can I grieve a...    less

The Mansfield University Concert Choir performs at their Annual Home Tour Concert on May 4, 2013. Conducted by Mr. Steven Miller, graduate student. Soloist is Brandon Russell.

The Mansfield University Concert Choir at the 2012 World Choir Games in their Gold Medal winning performance in the Musica Sacra competition.