News and Notices

Seattle’s Choral Arts, directed by Robert Bode, has won the 2010 American Prize in Choral Performance and Choral Conducting (community division). And Seattle Pro Musica, directed by Karen P. Thomas, tied for second place in the same category. The American Prize, created last year and awarded for the first time this year, is judged through […]

Omaha, NE — The Nebraska Choral Arts Society, umbrella organization of the Nebraska Children’s Chorus, Masterworks Adult Chorus and Choral Arts Society Teens, is closing its doors after more than 30 years of distinguished music-making.    Read more here:  http://choirmusic.org/ 

PLUtonic a capella choir from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, has hit the national stage as finalists in the You Tube competition put on by “America’s Got Talent.”   Of the thousands of video submissions, PLUtonic’s rendition of ‘N Sync’s “Here We Go” was selected as one of 40 finalists. Choir members were notified […]

June 29, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     On Sunday, June 27 the Board of Directors of The Orlando Chorale, Inc. voted to cease operations and dissolve the corporation for this community-based performing arts organization.   The Orlando Chorale was founded on May 7, 2002, by Gregory Ruffer, Music Director, and John E. Perkins, Executive […]

The San Clemente Choral Society has appointed composer and conductor Stephen Sturk as its new artistic director.   Sturk also is the director of music at St. Thomas of Canterbury Episcopal Church in Temecula and composer in residence at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in San Diego. He also is co-founder and director of Cappella Gloriana, […]

In a tightly contested race among some of the most well-known community choruses in the country, where the top three finishers were separated by mere percentage points and the top five by just inches, The American Prize is pleased to announce that Choral Arts, Robert Bode, conductor, of Seattle, WA, is the 2010 winner of […]