News and Notices

Dr. Ryan Hebert, assistant professor of music and director of choral activities at Longwood University, recently won the Jefferson Choral Society’s inaugural Virginia Choral Composition Competition. Hebert’s winning work is a choral setting of E.E. Cummings’ poem “i carry your heart with me.” The prize, which includes a $500 cash award, will be presented at […]

ACDA’s National Convention in Chicago will offer an unprecedented array of opportunities for musicians who serve congregations. The traditional convention activities will be stellar: An Ecumenical Service led by John Ferguson, in the beautiful Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago; a Reading Session in which the majority of the pieces will be conducted by […]

  The Columbus (OH) Foundation has honored The New World Singers of the Columbus Children’s Chorus, and director Sandra Mathias with special recognition for winning The American Prize in Choral Performance (youth choir division) in 2010 as one of the city’s National No. 1’s.   The postmark deadline for The American Prize in Choral Performance, […]

RENO, NV — The International Choral Festival is gaining more attention but not gaining a crowd. News 4 found out today this event which has cost the RSCVA more than $100,000, may be totally cancelled!   But, will the RSCVA have to pay out more money? We asked the Chair of the Board of Directors […]

by Lynn Hoppes NFL legend Tim Brown knows he’s can’t sing. “I couldn’t do ‘American Idol’ or anything like that,” said Brown, who played 16 years in the NFL, mostly with the Raiders. “I’m a choir singer, so I can just stay in the background.” Brown, along with the NFL PLAYERS choir, will be belting […]

HISTORY is hugely important to the Creole Choir of Cuba – a group of musicians starting a UK tour. Members are descended from Haitians who fled slavery to start a new life on the neighbouring island of Cuba.   Last week, the Solihull News had chance to put some questions to choir director Emilia Diaz […]