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 David Winkler, Producer Recorded: June 4, 2022 Broadway Presbyterian Church (Manhattan) From Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought 4. Sonnet : Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye ------------- BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye, That thou consum’st thy self in single life? Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die, The world will wail thee like a makeless wife; The world will be thy widow and still weep That thou no form of thee hast left behind, When every private widow well may keep By Children’s eyes, her husband’s shape in mind: Look what an unthrift ...    less

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 David Winkler, Producer Recorded: June 4, 2022 Broadway Presbyterian Church (Manhattan) From Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought 3. Sonnet 71: Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame ------------- BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell; Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so, That I in your Sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe. O, if (I say...    less

(the title comes from the young son of a friend of mine – I knew what he meant!)   [this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Like many teachers, I often catch colds during the autumn t...

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 David Winkler, Producer Recorded: June 4, 2022 Broadway Presbyterian Church (Manhattan) From Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought 2. Sonnet 129: Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action; and till action, lust Is perjured, murd'rous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust, Enjoyed no sooner but despisèd straight, Past reason hunted; and, no sooner had Past reason hated as a swallowed bait On purpose laid to make the taker mad; Mad in pursuit and in possession so, Had, h...    less

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 David Winkler, Producer Recorded: June 4, 2022 Broadway Presbyterian Church (Manhattan) From Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought 5. Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun ------------- BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. ...    less

Hi everybody - I just thought it was worth letting you know that Charles MacDougall (solo tenor, previous member of VOCES8) and I have recorded a very lighthearted single of a recent Christmas Carol of mine - and we hope you enjoy it! You can listen to i...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   A friend of mine asked the other day: “How do you find songs? And how do you do vocal arrangements of them?”   Photo by Jorge Fr...

I thought you might be interested in a new venture of mine.     I’m about to publish a free, monthly roundup of music news delivered straight to your inbox. As those of you who follow my Facebook Page know, I regularly post interesti...

Come to Cracow in the springtime of 2020 to participate inchoral festival that will be as meaningful as it is memorable. Concert performances will hold in Cracow and neighborhood: Grand Concert at Wieliczka Salt Mine! To get information on participation c...  moreCome to Cracow in the springtime of 2020 to participate inchoral festival that will be as meaningful as it is memorable. Concert performances will hold in Cracow and neighborhood: Grand Concert at Wieliczka Salt Mine! To get information on participation conditions and to contact us for an application form event@WeAreSinging.org ▶︎ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WeAreSingingCracow/ ▶︎ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WeAreSinging  

1st place Gold Medal || 1° posto Medaglia d'Oro Festival InCanto Mediterraneo 2013