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I am happy to invite you to join me in Rome June, 2021 for the Passion of Italy choir festival I’m hosting with KI Concerts.

Rome is an incredible city for performing and touring, full of thousand-year-old venues with sensational acoustics, warm and enthusiastic exchange ensembles, engaged audiences, and unforgettable historic sites. The Eternal City is home to some of the greatest architecture on earth, and centuries of choral traditions, creating the perfect environment for a festival concert tour.

I toured Rome with my own ensemble through KI Concerts and can personally speak to their incredible ability to create the perfect tour experience, customized to match the interests of your singers, families and friends. Please feel free to reach out to them with any questions about this festival tour.

Come with us and add your voices to the endless echoes that call to us from this cradle of civilization.

Elena Sharkova
Artistic Director & Conductor

ROME CHOIR FESTIVAL DETAILS
When: June 22 – 88, 2021
Where: Rome, with optional extensions to Florence and Venice
Sing in a combined Festival Gala Concert and perform individual concerts in breathtaking venues
Experience ancient Rome touring the Colosseum and Forum, visit the Sistine Chapel, and explore the Piazza Navona.
Customize your tour experience with KI’s First-Class Service and Planning Support

The Music and Arts Ministry of Salem UMC Village of Harlem (New York City), NY in conjunction with Carpenter Productions presents:

The Gathering: A Masterclass for Singers.

Saturday September 21, 2019 at 2:30PM

The Gathering features a master class for Emerging Artists from the community facilitated by Cecelia Tucker, Gregory Hopkins, and Kevin Maynor. Free and open to the public with a suggested donation of $10.

C L I N I C I A N S: Cecilia Tucker, Gregory Hopkins, Kevin Maynor, Dante’ Harrell

P E R F O R M E R S: Taerra Pence, Danté Harrell, Jasmine Manley, Edward Washington, II, Sean Mayes, Lisa Bryce, Shaquile Hester, Imani Mchunu Grosvenor, Sabrina Francis, Paul Grosvenor, Steven Kirby, Knaqui Germain, Omar Bowey

OVER 100 YEARS OF MINISTRY IN THE HEART OF HARLEM
SALEM UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
2190 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (7th Ave. @ 129th Street)
Village of Harlem (New York City), New York 10027
Telephone: (212) 678-2700 Fax: (212) 316-6204
E-mail Address: salemumc_nyc@verizon.net

Sacred Music at Notre Dame is accepting applications for the Masters of Sacred Music degree and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in choral conducting for the 2020 academic year. The University of Notre Dame is a top 20 nationally ranked school that offers full tuition, generous stipends, and assistantships working as choir directors at local churches and with the Notre Dame Children’s Choir. Student stipends range from $12,500-$19,000 annually.

Choral conducting students work with a fully paid choral ensemble for recitals and as a laboratory ensemble. Each student receives funding for one a cappella recital and one recital with small orchestra. Additionally, our students travel to Rome biannually to study with musicians of the Vatican, and to England to work with the conductors and singers of cathedrals in Leeds, Liverpool, and London.

We operate as a team of conducting faculty that includes Dr. Mark Doerries, head of the graduate conducting program and children’s choir specialist; Dr. Carmen Tellez, contemporary music, Latin American music and interdisciplinary arts specialist; Dr. Nancy Menk, women’s choir and new-music specialist; and Dr. Alexander Blachly, early-music scholar. Guest masterclasses have been led by Anne Howard Jones, Stephen Cleobury, Benjamin Saunders, Joseph Flummerfelt, Kimberly Dunn Adams, Jan Harrington, Alfred Calabrese, Donald Nally, Mark Miller, and, this spring, Dale Warland.

Our program is ideal for students interested in positions within churches and cathedrals, students with a background in music education interested in working with children at the highest level, and students honing their skills for the professional or university ensemble. Recent graduates work in Catholic and Episcopal Cathedrals and parishes across the nation, public and private K-12 schools, and Universities such as Minot State University, Goshen College, and Indiana University of South Bend.

Interested applicants may learn more about our program and apply by visiting our website: sma.nd.edu.

Interested musicians should not hesitate to contact Dr. Mark Doerries by email (mdoerries@nd.edu) or phone (574-761-6528) to discuss the program in greater detail or with questions regarding their application. Our application deadline is December 1, 2019. We accept international applications; we currently have students from Nigeria, Australia, the Philippines, Canada, and England in our program.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Mark Doerries, D.M.
Acting Director of Sacred Music at Notre Dame
Associate Professor of the Practice of Conducting
Head of the Graduate Conducting Studio
Artistic Director of the Notre Dame Children’s Choir, sma.nd.edu
Sacred Music at Notre Dame, sacredmusic.nd.edu

Chanticleer presents:

Trade Winds

DATE/TIME:
Wednesday, September 18
7:30pm-9:30pm

LOCATION:
Mission Santa Clara
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA, 95050

COST/TICKETS/REGISTRATION:
$10 to $62.
https://www.cityboxoffice.com/ordertickets.asp?p=11064

MORE INFO:
Website: http://www.chanticleer.org
Email: info@chanticleer.org
Phone: 415-252-8589

DESCRIPTION:
GRAMMY Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer opens its 2019-2020 Bay Area subscription season with “Trade Winds.” Appropriately saluting their upcoming world travels, the twelve-man vocal ensemble will present the music of sea-faring people and tropical climates in a program that includes the U.S. premiere of a commissioned work, also entitled Trade Winds, by Chinese composer Zhou Tian. Works range from Monteverdi to Grieg, as well as a selection of traditional folk songs and sea shanties from all over the world.

“Trade Winds” reflects the eclectic and far-reaching repertoire which has made Chanticleer a world-wide audience favorite for over forty years. Early music, with which the group first distinguished itself, will be represented by songs about the sea and the spheres by Monteverdi and Gesualdo. Portuguese music from the same era will be sung by Chanticleer for the first time with Filipe de Magalhaes’ Mass, O Soberana Luz. A selection of Sea Shanties from the British Isles, and folk songs from China, Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand will complete the program.

Chanticleer’s long and illustrious history of commissioning new choral work continues with the U.S. premiere of Trade Winds by Chinese composer Zhou Tian. Based on the poetry of John Masefield (Trade Winds), Zhimo Xu (Fortuitousness) and Seth Michelson (Strange How We Can Walk), this commissioned work will receive its world premiere in Kaufungen, Germany during Chanticleer’s upcoming European tour (August 19 through September 18). Zhou’s music has been performed throughout the world including orchestras such as the Pittsburgh Symphony and Hong Kong Philharmonic as well as such artists as Yuja Wang. His Concerto for Orchestra, commissioned and recorded by the Cincinnati Symphony, was nominated for a GRAMMY Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 2018.

About Chanticleer:
Called ‘the world’s reigning male chorus’ by the New Yorker, the San Francisco based GRAMMY(R) award-winning ensemble Chanticleer is known around the world as ‘an orchestra of voices’ for its seamless blend of twelve male voices ranging from soprano to bass and its original interpretations of vocal literature, from Renaissance to jazz and popular genres, as well as contemporary composition.

What: Auditions for the Fall 2019 season

When: September 21, Saturday from 2 pm to 4:30

Where: Westminster Presbyterian Church, downtown San Jose

Contact: voices.sv@gmail.com to schedule audition time

Rehearsal schedule: VOSV meets 3 times every month, 2 Saturday afternoons and 1 Monday night. We are looking for experienced and advanced singers who are interested in a wide range of repertoire and can learn music on their own, so our rehearsal schedule can be much lighter than other choral/vocal groups in the area.

Repertoire: This Fall Voices of Silicon Valley will work on a program honoring the lives of 36 artists and musicians who died in the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland in 2016, as well as recent victims of mass shootings. We will perform some of the most moving choral works by Eric Whitacre (such as Lux Aurumque, see the link below), Arvo Paert, Scot Hanna-Weir (composer/choral director at Santa Clara University), and selections from a beloved Requiem by Gabriel Faure.

About Voices of Silicon Valley: founded 2014, over the past 5 years VOSV has made a significant progress in expanding the range of possibilities for a choral performance, presenting interactive works for choir and audience/cell phones, rarely performed avent-garde masterpieces and traditional works combined with recent technology. In recent years, Voices have been named “one of the 8 music groups changing Bay Area” by KDFC and “an adventurous new ensemble” by Joshua Kosman (San Francisco Chronicle).

Whitacre Lux Aurumque

Visit our web site at www.voices-sv.org

Join me and KI Concerts in Ireland summer 2021 for an unforgettable festival experience! When we’re not hunting for 4 leaf clovers and dodging leprechauns, we will sing – as individual ensembles, and as one choir of many diverse voices in the festival gala concert performance.

Experience the sense of whimsy and comforting warmth Ireland’s known for as we joyfully sing and explore Dublin together in this festival tour experience! Each day we’ll explore the city and come together to rehearse and perform a diverse collection of pieces with the power, passion and spectacle that Ireland’s rich choral traditions inspire.

One of my favorite elements of the festival process is shaping the perfect concert program to fit the time, location, and character of the participating ensemble. KI Concerts brings that same personal touch to all of their tours so please don’t hesitate to reach out to them with any questions you might have.

I welcome the opportunity to adventure with you musically as we tour this amazing country together.

Craig Hella Johnson
Artistic Director & Conductor

IRELAND CHOIR FESTIVAL DETAILS
When: June 2 – 8, 2021
Where: Dublin & Belfast, with an optional extension to Cork
Sing in a combined Festival Gala Concert and perform individual concerts in breathtaking venues
Tour St. Patrick’s Cathedral, visit Glendalough, and explore the charming seaside town of Howth
Customize your tour experience with KI’s First-Class Service and Planning Support