12th International Chamber Choir Competition Marktoberdorf, Germany, www.modfestivals.org; June 10-15, 2011; Live recording; This is a service of Choral Festival Network www.choralfestivalnetwork.org; Competition Round 2, June 12

Our world-renowned, community-based not-for-profit choral organization is in our 30th Anniversary season. Amabile has almost 300 Singers aged eight through adult, in eight Choirs — four for girls and women, and four for boys and men. Amabile has achieved ...  moreOur world-renowned, community-based not-for-profit choral organization is in our 30th Anniversary season. Amabile has almost 300 Singers aged eight through adult, in eight Choirs — four for girls and women, and four for boys and men. Amabile has achieved acclaim on national and world stages for its excellence in choral performance, with 14 CBC National Choral Competition awards and 7 international competition awards.  

There are few things that have as powerful an impact on our ensembles as the standing formations of the Singers. This will directly impact the speed at which the ensemble learns new repertoire and polishes the same. Standing formation impacts balance, the...

The Ancora Chorale is a professional ensemble which strives to create, share, and inspire.

Pitch-Blend Chorus or PBC is Community-based and Church Choir in Saint Francis of Assisi Parish in Davao City. This is composed of young male and female Choristers known to be residing within the Parish jurisdiction. "We Sing, Pray and Love"

ENTERING THE SHELL Love is alive, and someone borne along by it is more alive than lions roaring or men in their fierce courage. Bandits ambush others on the road. They get wealth, but they stay in one place. Lovers keep moving, never the sam...  moreENTERING THE SHELL Love is alive, and someone borne along by it is more alive than lions roaring or men in their fierce courage. Bandits ambush others on the road. They get wealth, but they stay in one place. Lovers keep moving, never the same, not for a second! What makes others grieve, they enjoy! When they look angry, don't believe their faces. It's spring lightning, a joke before the rain. They chew thorns thoughtfully along with pasture grass. Gazelle and lioness, having dinner. Love is invisible except here, in us. Sometimes I praise love; sometimes love praises me. Love, a little shell somewhere on the ocean floor, opens its mouth. You and I and we, those imaginary beings, enter that shell as a single sip of seawater. Texts by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks © 1995 Coleman Barks. Used by permission. Performed by the Millennium Consort, Martin Neary, conductor, and the Pomona College Choir, Donna Di Grazia, director. Water Ruminations is a setting of six...    less

Choral Holidays is a small company that specialises in taking groups of amateur Singers to beautiful locations and forming them into Choirs. Last year we took a group to the beautiful location of Milton Abbey in Dorset, and also to Florence, where we sta...

Wolfram Buchenberg (arr.): Kein schöner Land in dieser Zeit; at 10th International Chamber Choir Competition Marktoberdorf - Round 2 2007 May 27 . www.modfestivals.org DVD and CD available

Wolfram Buchenberg: Bunt sind schon die Wälder; at 10th International Chamber Choir Competition Marktoberdorf - "SchlussaCHORd" / "Final Chord" 2007 May 29 . www.modfestivals.org DVD and CD available

  This has been a long time coming. For the past several years I’ve mused about forming an interfaith vocal ensemble, but it never seemed to be the right time.   Now it is.   Feel free to join me. We already have rehearsal spac...