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The award-winning William Baker Festival Singers, a semi-professional chorale based in Kansas City, announces mid-season auditions for openings in the Bass II and Alto II sections.  Highlights of the Winter/Spring 2025 season include Bach: MASS IN B MINOR with orchestra and soloists, and a series of performances to include works of Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, […]

The William Baker Choral Foundation Center announces the launch of a new weekly podcast program called “The Choral Director’s Toolbox.”  Each 15-minute episode will include Today’s Topic, a commentary from Dr. William Baker or the Choral Foundation staff on issues facing choral leaders; Today’s Question, submitted by listeners and answered by Choral Foundation staff; and Today’s […]

There aren’t many Mahler songs available for choirs to sing. Perhaps a college choir might like to tackle this one, a world premiere and a really good challenge awaits: “Ging heut’ morgen über’s Feld”.   “Ging heut’ morgen über’s Feld” is one of the happiest tunes that Mahler ever wrote, and he used it again […]

We are so proud to announce this quarter’s choral compositions accepted into the PROJECT : ENCORE Catalog of Contemporary Choral Music: Bright Light – Michael Bussewitz-Quarm Lux Aeterna Domine – Patti Drennan Non Si Levava (After Monteverdi) – John Muehleisen Lift My Soul (Drewes) – Joan Johnson Drewes E Pluribus Unum (Hope Like Gold) – […]

Livermore, Calif. – The Valley Concert Chorale, the Tri-Valley’s premier chorus, is seeking new singers for its upcoming March and May 2025 concerts. Auditions are available by appointment in January. Details are as follows:   Auditions by appointment Monday, January 6 and 13, 2025 Call (925) 866-4003   Rehearsals and audition location: First Presbyterian Church […]

The Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge, presented by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in partnership with the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT), is a unique educational and professional development opportunity for high school students to write and showcase a song that could be in a musical. A submission is one song. The Songwriting […]

Sounds of Stow Chorus welcomes all area singers to their Open Rehearsals, January 6, 13, and 20; First Parish Church in Stow Center (353 Great Road), 7-9 pm. Come as early as 6:30 to meet and greet your fellow singers. The Sounds of Stow continues its 46th season under the direction of Barbara Jones, exploring […]

Middle School Music Grant Requests can be submitted through January 31, 2025 for the 2024-25 academic year. The dollar value of the Grant was increased to $1,250.00 for the acquisition of in-school music classroom equipment and supplies. Teachers can also apply for additional funds to defer student transportation expenses under specific circumstances. The Peter R. […]

The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts, David (Volosin) Katz, founder and chief judge, the nation’s most comprehensive series of contests in the performing arts, now it is fourteen year, is honored to share announcements of 2024 winners in CHORAL CONDUCTOR, ENSEMBLE and related COMPOSITION categories. Please follow the links below to […]

On St. Louis’s classical radio station, 107.3 fm, Julie Schuster, host of “Friday Morning with the Arts,” interviews Philip Barnes, artistic director of the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus, on Friday, 20 December, between 9 and 10 am. The topic will be the Chamber Chorus’s holiday program, comprising original carols and new arrangements made expressly for […]