For the first time, an Irish choir has won a place in the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing. On Saturday night, the chamber choir New Dublin Voices and founding conductor Bernie Sherlock took first prize at the Concorso Polifonico in Arezzo, Italy, one of six elite choral competitions which provide the only means of […]
News and Notices
What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, September 1, 2013
The spotlight is on John Rutter’s Cambridge Singers this morning. Their performances of compositions other than their director’s are superb as you will hear. Enjoy your Labor Day weekend. Rob Rob Kennedy Great Sacred Music The Classical Stationhttp://theclassicalstation.org —————————————— 08:02:00 J.S. Bach: Chorale Prelude on “O Mensch, bewein dein Sunde gross”, BWV 622 Gerhard […]
National Collegiate Choral Organization Conducting Masterclass
Call for Conductors- NCCO Masterclass with Joseph Flummerfelt in Charleston, S. C. The National Collegiate Choral Organization is now accepting applications for graduate level choral conductors to participate in a Conducting Masterclass during the 5th National Conference in Charleston. The session will be held Friday, November 1st and chosen conductors will have the opportunity […]
David Griggs-Janower
Dear Choralnet Friends, While we all knew this was coming, that does not make it any easier to tell you that Albany Pro Musica’s Founding Artistic Director and Conductor Emeritus, David Griggs-Janower, passed away earlier today. I cannot express the depth of the loss we are feeling. We are all devastated at the passing of […]
What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, August 25, 2013
Rob Kennedy Great Sacred Music The Classical Stationhttp://theclassicalstation.org 08:02:00 J.S. Bach: Chorale Prelude “Alle Menschen mussen sterben”, BWV 643 Michael Murray, organ Walcker Organ at Metheun Hall, Methuen, Massachusetts Anonymous: Speciosus forma Anonymous 4 Franz Schubert: Ave Maria, D. 839 Barbara Bonney, soprano; Geoffrey Parsons, piano The Walcker Organ at Metheun […]
NCC on a High Note for Fall Auditions Following Student Summer Successes with LA Opera and Broadway
America’s Leading Youth Choral Institution The National Children’s Chorus Hosting Auditions in Los Angeles September 7 and New York September 12 NCC Hosting Auditions on High Note Following Students Recently Chosen to Perform Solo on Broadway, with the LA Opera and the Upcoming U.S. Open LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (August 22, 2013) – America’s leading youth choral […]