SEASON 10: OUR MISSION IN ACTION JULY After hosting Summer Sings for a couple of Seasons, Vince Peterson felt that he would prefer to offer choral singers a more valuable educational opportunity during the Summer months and brought back his stand-alone Ear Training workshop that has been run several times as part of the Institute in years past. Re-named the Ear-Training Bootcamp, the workshop was held at Regis High School over a 2-week period, with Steve Smith from Mannes School of Music teaching a second advanced class in parallel to Vince. SEPTEMBER National Sawdust Residency Launched Choral Chameleon was featured on National Sawdust’s website and calendar as Group-in-Residence. Vince Peterson and Board President Nicole Belmont participated in meet and greets between other residents and curators, building new connections.
OCTOBER Kickstarter Campaign This year we worked with a superb filmmaker Tobin Del Cuore to help tell the story of the Season’s artistic focus – shining a light on the humans behind every voice in a choir. Several singers participated as subjects in a dedicated shoot for the campaign, which helped to provide a timely bulk of the funding for our Season’s artistic program.
NOVEMBER ‘Shift’ - St Paul’s Carroll Street & St Luke in The Fields The Chorus performed our Season’s first self-produced concert, which is the only chronologically-programmed concert we’ve ever done! It featured composers who had explored ‘what if’ ideas in choral music that stretched the art-form for their time. The Chorus showed their chameleon-like skills in handling vocal styles ranging from plainchant, early polyphony, baroque, romantic, modern, spiritual, minimalist and beyond.
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