Choral Arts Initiative Concludes Fourth Season with World Premiere of Secular Requiem “How to Go On” and Debut Commercial Recording

Choral Arts Initiative Concludes Fourth Season with World Premiere of
Secular Requiem “How to Go On” and Debut Commercial Recording

Newport Beach, CA, June 1, 2016 – Choral Arts Initiative, named one of Orange County’s Best Choirs by CBS News, concludes its fourth season with “How to Go On,” a concert of works by composer Dale Trumbore to be performed in Anaheim and Newport Beach July 16 & 17, 2016 and conducted by Artistic Director Brandon Elliott. The highlight of the program will be the premiere of a 35-minute secular requiem commissioned from Trumbore by Choral Arts Initiative, also titled “How to Go On.” An eight-movement contemporary meditation on mortality for virtuosic a cappella chorus and soloists, this new composition sets to music poems about grief, beauty and solace by contemporary writers Barbara Crooker, Amy Fleury, and Laura Foley.

“Never in my life have I been more excited about a piece of music,” says Elliott. “This commission and project has been in the works for nearly two years. When I received the first draft of this stunning work, I had chills running down my arm. This is a masterwork that you will want to hear and experience.”

This program of Trumbore’s choral works includes the West Coast premieres of her pieces “In the Middle” and “All We Need.” The composer, hailed for her “soaring melodies and beguiling harmonies deployed with finesse” (The New York Times), will accompany several of her works on the piano.

Audiences have two chances to hear this program, with a 7:30 p.m. performance at Anaheim First Presbyterian Church on Saturday, July 16, 2016 and a 4 p.m. performance on Sunday, July 17, 2016 at St. Mark Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach. Following the premiere of “How to Go On,” Elliott and the twenty-two singers of Choral Arts Initiative will record this program on their first commercially released album, “How to Go On: the Choral Works of Dale Trumbore,” to be released in January 2017. Albums are available now for pre-order at www.choralartsinitiative.org.

Tickets for both concerts range from $10 – $35 and may be purchased online or at either concert. Student tickets are available. For tickets and information, please visit www.choralartsinitiative.org.

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CHORAL ARTS INITIATIVE – BIO
Choral Arts Initiative is a non-profit 501(c)(3) choral organization made up of some of the most talented and passionate musicians in the Southern California region. Hailed as one of Orange County’s Best Choirs (CBS News, Los Angeles) and 2014 winner of the American Prize in Choral Performance, Choral Arts Initiative works in partnership with composers and the community to illuminate emerging choral music through vocal collaboration and performance and to inspire musical creativity through unique outreach and education programs. Now in their fourth season, Choral Arts Initiative has given the world premieres of eight new choral works as well as twenty-two West Coast premieres. More information about Choral Arts Initiative may be found at www.choralartsinitiative.org.

DALE TRUMBORE – BIO
Composer Dale Trumbore has been called “a rising star among modern choral composers” (AXS). Her compositions have been performed widely in the United States and internationally by ensembles including ACME, The Los Angeles Master Chorale, Northwest Symphony Orchestra, The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, The Singers – Minnesota Choral Artists, VocalEssence and the Yale Glee Club.

Trumbore has served as Composer in Residence with Nova Vocal Ensemble and received Artist in Residence awards from Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Copland House, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, and Willapa Bay AiR. She has been commissioned by organizations including the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), Center City Opera Theater, The Hollywood Master Chorale, Inscape Chamber Orchestra, Maryland State Boychoir, and the Young New Yorkers’ Chorus, among many others. Her works for voice have been recorded by Choral Arts Northwest, The Esoterics, New York Virtuoso Singers, Six Degree Singers, and soprano Gillian Hollis, and her compositions are published with Boosey & Hawkes and G. Schirmer.

Trumbore holds a Master of Music degree in Composition from the University of Southern California, where she studied with Morten Lauridsen. A New Jersey native, Trumbore currently resides in Los Angeles. Hear her music at www.daletrumbore.com.

CALENDAR LISTING:

EVENT:
Led by Artistic Director Brandon Elliott, Choral Arts Initiative performs “How to Go On,” a program of choral works by composer Dale Trumbore, including the premiere of her new, 35-minute, eight-movement secular requiem for virtuosic a cappella chorus and soloists.

“How to Go On”
Choral Arts Initiative
Brandon Elliott, Conductor
Dale Trumbore, Piano
22 Singers

PROGRAM:
AFTER THE STORM PASSES Dale Trumbore
LODESTAR Dale Trumbore
I AM MUSIC Dale Trumbore
IN THE MIDDLE Dale Trumbore
ALL WE NEED Dale Trumbore
HOW TO GO ON Dale Trumbore

VENUES AND DATES:
Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 7:30 p.m.
Anaheim First Presbyterian Church
310 W Broadway
Anaheim, CA 92805

Sunday, July 17, 2016 at 4 p.m.
St. Mark Presbyterian Church
2200 San Joaquin Hills Rd
Newport Beach, CA 92660

TICKETS AND INFORMATION:
Tickets are $10/$25 if purchased in advance through www.choralartsinitiative.org or $15/$35 at the concerts.
(949) 431-0120
www.choralartsinitiative.org

PRESS CONTACT:
Lorraine Joy Welling
Choral Arts Initiative
P.O. Box 61550
Irvine, CA 92602
(714) 585-1430

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