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• View Stacy Horn's TEDx Montclair talk about the benefits of choral singing at bit.ly/1alfPcT. (2014-2-7)
• Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble is pleased to announce the winners of its 2014 Emerging Composers Competition: Steven Serpa (Coventry, RI), was awarded first prize; Joshua Fishbein (Los Angeles, CA) and Theo Popov (New York, NY) shared second prize. The premieres of all three works will take place in performances at 8:00 PM on March 1, 2014, at St. Paul's Church in Brooklyn (199 Carroll Street) and at 8:00 PM on March 8, 2014, at St. Michael's Church in Manhattan (225 West 99th Street). For more information, please see www.cerddorion.org. (2014-1-20)
• Choral composer Steven Sametz, artistic director of The Princeton Singers, has been named the recipient of the 10th Raymond and Beverly Sackler Music Composition Prize presented by the University of Connecticut, a $25,000 award to compose a new work for a specific area of musical arts that will be performed and recorded. (2013-10-15)
• The Greenwich Village Singers are now the Greenwich Village Chamber Singers. (2013-7-31)
• The Board of Directors of The Empire City Men’s Chorus, under the leadership of Board President Jeremy Davidson, has announced the retirement of ECMC Artistic Director Christopher Clowdus after five years of distinguished service and programming. In conjunction with Mr. Clowdus's retirement, the Board has initiated a search for a new artistic director. See the ad in the Info Exchange for more information. (2013-7-16)

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• February 25, 2014: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for the Rainbow Chorus, a four-part chorus in Kingston, NY open to LGBTQ and LGBTQ-friendly men and women. New Choir Directory listing for Tapestry, a new volunteer choir based in Lower Manhattan. New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for the Connection Community Chorale in Long Island City.
• February 14, 2014: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for the Connecticut-based Greater Middletown Chorale.
• February 11, 2014: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for the Saint Joseph Parish Choir in Spring Valley, NY.
• January 25, 2014: New link for The Center for Vocal Health, part of the Voice and Swallowing Institute at the New York Ear and Eye Infirmary. New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for the Middle Church Jerriese Johnson Gospel Choir in the East Village.
• January 20, 2014: New Choir Directory listing for the St. John's Lutheran Church Adult Choir in Summit, NJ.
• January 16, 2014: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for Festival of Voices, an SATB choir based at Marble Collegiate Church.
• January 15, 2014: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for The Chorale of the Church of St. Patrick, Huntington.
• December 1, 2013: New Choir Directory listing for the First Presbyterian Church of Yorktown Choir in Yorktown, NY.
• November 25, 2013: New link for ConcertTour.org's listing of New York concerts.
• November 18, 2013: New Choir Directory listing and Choir Auditions ad for Aftersox, a post-collegirate women's a cappella ensemble in Park Slope.

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