News and Notices

Greece Athena High School’s Show Choir will be able to cruise the Greek Isles after all, after ash from volcanic eruptions in Iceland disrupted travel plans here and around the world in the past few days.   Thousands of flights were canceled as a vast cloud of grit drifted over Europe. The Greece Athena students […]

New Haven, Connecticut (WTNH) – It may not sound like much of a problem to be stuck in Milan until the skies clear, but parents of the Branford High Concert Choir are beginning to get a little anxious. It’s a trip of a lifetime that has turned into a wait of a lifetime on both […]

 “This group is first about people, and we use music as a vehicle,” said Zahn. “We go out and help people.”   “Not to say that we don’t want to put on the best performances possible, but this is about raising funds to help others, and we happen to have fun doing it.”   The […]

Two weeks after a judge said the city’s Department of Education could not close 19 schools as planned, one of the schools is back on the city’s agenda to be shuttered.   The new plan to close the school — which is actually not a school per se, but the high school grades of the Choir Academy of Harlem — is […]

Since 2002, April 16 has been recognized as World Voice Day, a chance to educate the public about the voice and voice care, and to celebrate the glories of the voice in cross-disciplinary events such as concerts, symposia, and private receptions. The idea began in Brazil and is now marked worldwide. Many voice clinics offer […]

C4: the Choral Composer/Conductor Collective is launching its first commissioning competition. The group will give five finalists the opportunity to compose new works for C4: the Choral Composer/Conductor Collective, and to participate in the rehearsal process. All five new works will be premiered on March 3 and 5, 2011, in New York City. First prize […]