May 5, 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Baton Rouge, Louisiana:
Red Shift, Louisiana’s premier professional choir conducted by Trey Davis, announces auditions for the 2018-2019 Season.
*priority consideration through May 18, 2018
Season Highlights:
– A featured performance for the College Music Society National Conference in Vancouver, British Colombia
– Kile Smith’s The Consolation of Apollo, commemorating the 50 year anniversary of the Apollo 8 moon mission
– 2 Newly Commissioned World Premieres by Kile Smith and Timothy Takach
– 4 Major Concert Projects
In addition to compensation for all rehearsals and performances, artists receive roundtrip airfare or mileage, lodging, ground transportation, and conference registration.
*We value all voice types, including large, colorful voices that can sing collaboratively.
About Red Shift
Dedicated to resonant, innovative storytelling, Red Shift is a professional choir of exceptional artists that offers audiences new perspectives of sound and meaning in our shared world. Founded in 2015, the choir is comprised of vocal artists from Baton Rouge and throughout the nation who are dedicated to creative performances of virtuosic post-modern repertoire and forgotten choral works of the past.
Red Shift strives to foster an appreciation and advocacy in its audiences of choral art music that transcends the expected and celebrates a diversity of time periods, styles, languages, spiritual traditions, and cultures. Initiatives to achieve these educational aims include research, commissioning and publication of new music, community presentations, exhibitions, and interaction and engagement with audiences.
To audition, please e-mail .
Please provide the following in your e-mail:
1. A current résumé
2. Indicate the choral voice part you sing most comfortably (S1, S2, etc).
3. Provide the names and contact information of three professional references.
4. Attach a recording or video of a solo selection that demonstrates your voice’s pitch and dynamic ranges.
Red Shift is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
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