News and Notices

EDMONTON – The position of artistic director at Pro Coro Canada was finally announced Friday night, and the winner is: Michael Zaugg. The sixth person to hold the job since the choir was founded in 1980, the Montreal-based Zaugg beat out some fairly stiff competition in San Francisco’s Magen Solomon and Yale Russian Chorus conductor Mark Bailey to […]

45 young singers from the Indianapolis Children’s Choir (ICC) will perform The Star-Spangled Banner with national recording artist and Grammy winner Kelly Clarkson at Super Bowl XLVI.  The singers will be conducted by ICC Founder and Artistic Director Henry Leck and Assistant Artistic Director Joshua Pedde.   The experience the conductors have with past performances […]

Susan LaBarr is the 2012 Missouri Composer Laureate. (Photo Credit: Caitlin Denman) Susan LaBarr, a Missouri State University music department alumna, has been named the 2012 Missouri Composer Laureate. She is composing music for the Verses and Voices Festival on March 6, 2012 at the Capitol Rotunda in Jefferson City. Choirs from across the state will combine […]

BBC MOBILE — A record company has begun a worldwide search for the singer who can sing a note so low that it is thought never to have been sung before. Written by Military Wives composer Paul Mealor, the choral work De Profundis includes a low E, which lies more than two octaves below middle C. […]

By Carol Joseph   NAPLES, FL — It’s been said that when you love what you do, work doesn’t feel like work.  And for 51-year-old Becky Lynn Weese, truer words have never been spoken.  “I just love what I do,” proclaims Weese, director of music and the organist at the Naples United Church of Christ (UCC). […]

Two major works this morning: John Rutter’s Requiem at 10 a.m. and Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli at 8:22 a.m. I hope that you and your choral conducting students find these playlists useful.   Great Sacred Music airs every Sunday from 8 – 11 a.m. eastern on The Classical Station. 89.7 fm in central North Carolina […]