The King’s Singers: 50th Anniversary Celebration
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This evening celebrates the 50th anniversary of The King’s Singers with a reunion concert featuring past and present members of the noted British a cappella ensemble and the Distinguished Concerts Singers International. The program features works by Eric Whitacre, Billy Joel, and an anniversary commission by Nico Muhly conducted by King’s Singers alumni Simon Carrington and Bob Chilcott.
Repertoire to include:
Bob Chilcott – We Are (US Premiere), conducted by Bob Chilcott
Eric Whitacre – The Stolen Child, conducted by Simon Carrington
Bob Chilcott Thou, my love, art fair, conducted by Bob Chilcott
Hubert Parry – My Soul There is a Country, conducted by Simon Carrington
Bob Chilcott – High Flight, conducted by Bob Chilcott
Eric Barnum - Moonlight Music, conducted by Simon Carrington
Bob Chilcott – En La Macarenita, conducted by Bob Chilcott
Nico Muhly – To Stand in this House, conducted by Simon Carrington
Billy Joel, arr. Bob Chilcott – And So It Goes
This evening celebrates the 50th anniversary of The King’s Singers with a reunion concert featuring past and present members of the noted British a cappella ensemble and the Distinguished Concerts Singers International. The program features works by Eric Whitacre, Billy Joel, and an anniversary commission by Nico Muhly conducted by King’s Singers alumni Simon Carrington and Bob Chilcott.
Repertoire to include:
Bob Chilcott – We Are (US Premiere), conducted by Bob Chilcott
Eric Whitacre – The Stolen Child, conducted by Simon Carrington
Bob Chilcott Thou, my love, art fair, conducted by Bob Chilcott
Hubert Parry – My Soul There is a Country, conducted by Simon Carrington
Bob Chilcott – High Flight, conducted by Bob Chilcott
Eric Barnum - Moonlight Music, conducted by Simon Carrington
Bob Chilcott – En La Macarenita, conducted by Bob Chilcott
Nico Muhly – To Stand in this House, conducted by Simon Carrington
Billy Joel, arr. Bob Chilcott – And So It Goes
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The King's SingersParticipating Group Directors
The Choir of the University of Duisburg-Essen is a successful amateur choir for over 25 years with currently 140 singers. Since 2001 Hermann Kruse leads the choir. Contrasting programs like "University Choir Goes Latin", a musical program, the Brahms Requiem, Bernstein’s Candide, the Rutter Requiem, "Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. "A Proms Night" in 2012, a “Caribbean Mass" or extraordinary projects such a live performance to the movie “Pirates of the Caribbean 2” show the variety of the choir.
The Christopher Wren Singers are The College of William and Mary's oldest student-run a cappella group, dating back to the fall of 1987. They maintain a steady number of members of diverse majors and social classes, with very few actual music majors. They are a co-ed ensemble whose unique repertoire includes madrigals, spirituals, jazz, Gospel, contemporary choral pieces, holiday tunes and the like. They have performances throughout the academic year, including holiday and spring concerts. They often perform at churches and are available for hire to sing at special events. In addition, they tour in the spring, with such destinations reaching as far west as Texas and as far north as New York.
BOUNDLESS vocal ensemble was formed in 2013. This ensemble of 8-10 performers creates evening length works of highly varied choral genres around themes incorporating spoken word, projected visuals, instrumentals, and movement. The ensemble is directed by Vicki Blake Thompson but performs without a conductor. Recent "choral theater" works have included "The Elusive Heart" which centered on the science, myth, and metaphor of the heart, and "Stardust" which explored the cosmos in science, story, and music and photography. BOUNDLESS is thrilled to be a part of tonight's performance with The King's Singers. The ensemble hails from Bonners Ferry, ID, a village of 2600 people nestled in a valley between three mountain ranges.
The Prosper High School Varsity Mixed Choir was established in 2010 by then director, Connie Miserak. This auditioned group of men and women perform choral music of various styles ranging from Renaissance to Modern, with the majority of their repertoire a cappella. In recent, the varsity mixed choir has performed the Vivaldi Gloria with Southeastern Oklahoma State University, collaborated on a refugee awareness project involving Imagine Dragons, and has performed at the Morton H. Meyerson symphony center with the Dallas Youth Orchestra.
Varsity Chorus is the top auditioned vocal ensemble at St. Louis University High School, an all-male Jesuit college preparatory institution. Ensemble members range from sophomores to seniors, and perform high-level repertoire, including everything from Renaissance to contemporary a cappella. Varsity Chorus has previously toured in Boston, New Orleans, Nashville, China, and more.
Cantare Chorale of the Sierra Foothills, founded in 1992, is a community chorus of mixed voices based in El Dorado County, California. Their mission is to bring quality choral music to their community and to provide a venue for aspiring musicians to develop and share their talent. The group includes singers from diverse musical and personal backgrounds--administrators, businesspeople, educators, engineers, homemakers, designers, medical professionals, and more. Singing a variety of styles of music—classical, madrigal, sacred, secular, folk, jazz, Broadway, spiritual, contemporary—with pleasure they share their voices and music with the El Dorado County community and beyond.
Now in its fifth season, the Toronto Youth Choir is committed to providing young singers the opportunity to enrich their lives through the art of choral music. As part of the Toronto Children’s Chorus, the TYC is comprised of choristers aged 16 to 30. The ensemble offers exceptional opportunities to study and perform music as part of a world-renowned choral organization. This season, the TYC is honoured to perform a number of concerts, including the annual Toronto Children’s Chorus concerts at Roy Thomson Hall and the Toronto Centre for the Arts, a collaborative concert with Incontra Vocal Ensemble, and its first-ever tour - to perform at Carnegie Hall.
The Christ Episcopal Church Chancel Choir has grown steadily through the years from its inception, as the church has grown to be the third largest Episcopalian church in the country. The choir sings regularly for worship services, and performs special concerts, and services throughout the church year. We are privileged to be able to offer student scholarships to music majors in local colleges, and high school students aspiring to major in music, to sing with us, through the Mallory Family Fine Arts Fund. We sing a diverse repertoire, both accompanied and a cappella works. Our specialty is singing newly created works by current composers. We recently commissioned an anthem by Bob Chilcott, “Epiphany,” which we premiered last January after a joint workshop with the University of North Florida Chamber Singers, under the direction of Cara Tasher. We are looking forward to hosting Dr. Z. Randall Stroope, in 2019, both for commissioning of a new anthem, and a 3 day workshop in conjunction with UNF.
Eastwood Chamber Choir is a auditioned based choir under the direction of Tammy Mcmath. This group has achieved a gold standard at both Musicfest Nationals 2015 & 2016.