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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 […]

You are invited to peruse three new arrangements for men posted to my catalog at J.W. Pepper MyScore: Gentle Annie (Stephen Foster), Now the Powers of Heaven (Alexsandre Shemetev), and O, Savior of the World (John Goss). Bill Sherrill

Eric Bibb’s “People You Love” is powerful to say the least. This beautiful piece, arranged by Larry Nickel, deals with the subject of death in such a sensitive and meaningful way – this is a tear-jerker, for sure. Enjoy! Sheet Music available at Cypress Choral Music – https://cypresschoral.com/composers/larry-nickel/people-you-love/

Connie Kaldor’s “Hills of Salvation” has been given a fantastic choral work up by another young Canadian from Ontario Patrick Murray. This anthem sings itself – with rich and solid harmony. Enjoy! Sheet Music available – https://cypresschoral.com/composers/patrick-murray/hills-of-salvation/

The Christian Virtual Hymnal 20K has been updated to include the full scores of Bach’s Magnificat and Bach’s Mass in B Minor. So now the Christian Virtual Hymnal 20K provides transposable, customizable, searchable sheet music and MIDI for 20,000 public domain hymns. (No CCLI license required.) Verses can be re-ordered/deleted/displayed using any font/size available on […]

Favorite piece of Musica international, the global choral repertoire database, for December 2024: “Magic is The Christmas Day“, by Carsten GERLITZ (Germany) This piece offers a heartwarming poem as a Christmas carol. This choral vocal jazz piece tells about the customs and hopes of Christmas with warm and modern sounds in close harmony, a song […]

Is a CCA choral course in Cambridge on your Christmas wishlist? Maybe you love someone enough to treat them too? We can keep a secret if you want to apply on behalf of a loved one! To fill up the last few places on our first Epiphany Singing Retreat (3-5 January), we’re offering a £50 […]

Hello all! The countdown is getting real… We have 4 days left on our Kickstarter campaign to fund Rose Ever Blooming, our Christmas oratorio project with the VOCES8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra. We’re getting close! We’ve been overwhelmed with the support so far ~ we are grateful every day for our supporters and fans! No amount is too […]

Cantus Commission Competition Following the success of our Young and Emerging Composer Competition, we are thrilled to announce an evolution to the program! Moving forward as the Cantus Commission Competition, this initiative provides mentorship to an emerging composer of any age chosen to write a commissioned work for Cantus and the broader community of tenor/bass choirs. Cantus first […]