News and Notices

      ChoralExpress is a great online source to find and post choral concerts.    The 2010 Holiday Concerts are now posted!   Check out the site at www.choralexpress.com.

EASTON, MD — The Easton Choral Arts Society has announced its interim artistic director and choral conductor to direct the fall season will be Wesley “Wes” Dean Lockfaw. A native of Pocomoke City, Lockfaw holds degrees in sacred music from Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C. and Southern Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and has done additional […]

Lehigh University in historic Bethlehem, Pennsylvania   Lehigh University Choral Arts offers Choral Scholarships each year to incoming freshmen.  Talented singers of any major or minor concentration at Lehigh University are eligible for scholarships of $10,000 over 4 years.  As a Choral Scholar, recipients participate in University Choir and one or more of the other […]

The Lutheran Youth Choir of North America announces the 2010 winner of its first annual International Choral Composition Contest:  Ronald A. Nelson of Minneapolis, Minnesota, composer of the winning anthem, "Why Not the Earth?"  This contest supports the compostion of excellent sacred music suitable for high-school-age choirs.  Entries were received this year from Japan, Italy, Canada, […]

Boosey & Hawkes is sad to announce the death of leading Polish composer Henryk Mikolaj Górecki, who passed away aged 76 on 12 November 2010 in Katowice after a long illness.   Górecki’s early output saw him as a leading composer of the Polish avant-garde in the 1950s and he reached a worldwide audience in […]

WARWICKSHIRE COUNTY, UK — It was a near-death experience that led to Garry Jones retiring from his high-powered job at Warwickshire County Council to start up one of the UK’s biggest boys choir.   The 64-year-old from Warwick suffered heart failure while out jogging but, luckily, collapsed in front of an off-duty paramedic who rushed […]