[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] I started my first community choir over 20 years ago. I used to worry that, after the long Summer break, the singers would have forgotten me and wouldn’...

EMBER is the semi-professional Choral ensemble of Ember Choral Arts. Ember performs its entire season in both New Jersey and New York. Ember Choral Arts focuses on performing and promoting music of living composers, and boasts robust educational outreac...  moreEMBER is the semi-professional Choral ensemble of Ember Choral Arts. Ember performs its entire season in both New Jersey and New York. Ember Choral Arts focuses on performing and promoting music of living composers, and boasts robust educational outreach programs. Ember’s core value is the belief that music has a unique power to affect the human heart and soul.  

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

The Milwaukee Choral Artists is Wisconsin's premiere professional Choral ensemble, and one of only a handful of professional women’s vocal ensembles in the country. With its signature lush sound, MCA brings a distinctive repertory of Choral and vocal mast...  moreThe Milwaukee Choral Artists is Wisconsin's premiere professional Choral ensemble, and one of only a handful of professional women’s vocal ensembles in the country. With its signature lush sound, MCA brings a distinctive repertory of Choral and vocal masterworks—including well-known pieces, new music, seldom-performed works, and music of diverse cultures and historical periods—to concert audiences throughout the region. Founded in 1998 as a chamber ensemble comprised of professional solo singers, MCA occupies a distinctive position of excellence in the city, state, and region. Regularly hailed for its imaginative programming, the group has firmly established itself in the mainstream of professional music making both within and beyond Milwaukee. The Milwaukee Choral Artists enjoys regular appearances with Present Music, Milwaukee’s internationally acclaimed contemporary music ensemble. Equally well versed in early music, the Milwaukee Choral Artists has also collaborated with Early Music Now, performing twice...    less

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   It’s that time of year again. Summer is over and choir starts back. We choir leaders will be thinking about which songs to teach for the next s...

I Encuentro de Música Sacra "Vox Clamantis" - 2010

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] As I wrote recently (It’s Summer – where have all the choir gone??!!), patchy attendance at regular choir sessions can be very frustrating. &n...

The Songmen sing a new work by Rob Waters fresh from premiering it in Germany this Summer.

The Choral Association "CANTICA NOVA", which has been involved in concerts and performances with its vocal ensemble since 1989, and with the patronage of FENIARCO and ARS Cori, is promoting and organizing the IV edition of its International Choral Festiva...

The Victoria Choral Society, directed by Brian Wismath, is an auditioned, mixed-voice symphonic choir dedicated to presenting the finest Choral music from baroque to contemporary. Founded in 1934, the Victoria Choral Society has played a leading role in V...  moreThe Victoria Choral Society, directed by Brian Wismath, is an auditioned, mixed-voice symphonic choir dedicated to presenting the finest Choral music from baroque to contemporary. Founded in 1934, the Victoria Choral Society has played a leading role in Victoria's cultural life, and has performed with every Victoria Symphony conductor since the Symphony’s inception. The choir was created after 200 singers, representing most of the church choirs of the day in Victoria, assembled in 1934 to sing Messiah. They agreed to continue singing together to promote Choral music, and the Victoria Choral Society, at that time called the Victoria Choral Union, was formed. The instrumentalists who played with the choir later formed the Victoria Symphony. Recent performances with the Victoria Symphony include Wagner's Lohengrin (Third Act), Verdi's Requiem, Orff's Carmina Burana, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Britten's War Requiem, and Handel’s Messiah. Each year, the Victoria Choral Society also produces its own concerts wi...    less