(Vancouver, BC) Chor Leoni announces auditions for The Leonids, a new professional TTBB chamber ensemble, under the direction of Artistic Director Erick Lichte. The Leonids will serve as the professional headline choir for Chor Leoni’s annual VanMan Male Choral Summit and as an educational, inspirational, and aspirational force for this festival and beyond. Like the […]
Singing Together on Zoom — really! Zoom-specific compositions, and groups forming
I’ve been experimenting over the past year with composing part music that could be sung together on Zoom by members of my unauditioned, a capella community chorus in Downeast Maine, within these parameters: * minimal technology and setup * within the capabilities of our sketchy broadband, the quirks of Zoom and online latency, and my […]
The American Prize announces semi-finalist COMPOSERS for 2021, including CHORAL COMPOSERS
Dear Colleagues and Friends, I hope you and your loved ones are all safe and well during this difficult time. The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts has announced semi-finalist COMPOSERS in all divisions for 2021, including in choral music. A link to the listings on our blog is below. Finalist announcements […]
Collaboration Occurred thanks to Choralnet.org
Thanks to posting a request to collaborate for a short collage-film in progress, I was contacted by the multi-talented Cathy McEvoy, https://cathymcevoy.com/ Via our correspondence I was introduced to her lovely composition, An Coinneal (Irish for “candle”). I live in the United States and Cathy lives in Ireland, so I am really bowled over that […]
Every song has a story – Shedding light on Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna
Could ten weeks change your life? What if you spent those weeks all alone on a fire lookout tower in the Pacific Northwest near Mount St. Helens, with your only human contact from the once-a-week food delivery? That’s what put Morten Lauridsen on track to becoming one of the greatest living composers. This book is […]