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Harold Rosenbaum Choral Conducting Workshop November 16
Join Harold Rosenbaum's Choral Conducting Workshop at Manhattan's Kaufman Music Center, 129 West 67th Street, on Saturday, November 16, 2024 from 10 to 1 and 2 to 5 PM. This event is open to choral conductors who wish to enhance their careers, expand their contacts and have an intensive experience with 2014 Ditson Conductor’s Award winner Dr. Harold Rosenbaum, one of the world’s leading choral conductors.
The workshop includes rehearsal and performance conducting techniques, one-on-one instruction and individual guidance. The Institute is limiting enrollment to 12 conductors so each participant will receive close attention, hands-on guidance and constructive feedback by Rosenbaum. Register at www.haroldrosenbaum.com/conducting-institute/.
Posted 10/11/2024. Expires 11/16/2024.
Pro bass/baritone for church in Ardsley, NY
St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Ardsley, NY is looking for a bass/baritone soloist/section leader for a small choir in a very friendly Episcopal church, starting immediately, although there is some flexibility in start date. One rehearsal (8:45 AM Sunday) and one service (10:00 AM Sunday), plus additional services at Christmas and Holy Week/Easter. We seek someone who has strong sight-reading skills, strong vocal skills and is responsible in learning parts and in attendance. Church is just 20 miles from Manhattan. Compensation is $110/week (rehearsal and service). Special services extra. Please contact Larry Wolf, Music Director, at larrywolf94@gmail.com or 914-450-8467 for more information.Posted 10/1/2024. Expires 12/1/2024.
Jersey City church seeks tenor and bass Advent singers
St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Jersey City is looking for one tenor and one bass to sing with us during this Advent season. Compensation is $150/week ($100/service, $50/rehearsal). Rehearsals will be on Thursdays starting on November 14, 8 PM.
Service on Sundays is 10:15-11:30 AM, with call time 9 AM (starting December 1).
Please e-mail Teresa at teresa.shyr@gmail.com or text at 201-314-6738 if interested and available.
Posted 9/30/2024. Expires 11/30/2024.
Westport, CT church seeks tenor and bass section leaders
Christ & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Westport, CT seeks a tenor and a bass to fill its section leader positions in the inter-generational Parish Choir. Repertoire would be considered standard English cathedral with occasional other periods of music performed, sometimes with neighboring Episcopal parishes. The church also has a long-established and well-regarded Music & Arts program. The Choir is welcoming and friendly (as is the church), sings a lot of material, and works hard to achieve good results. Rehearsals are fast-paced and cover a lot of music.
Calls are Thursday evening 7:30-9:30 and Sunday morning 8:30-10:30, September to early-June. Other singing opportunities are available as they arise throughout the year. Remuneration is currently $105 per call.
If interested, please send an e-mail along with a brief CV to Douglas Keilitz (Director of Music Ministries & Organist) at music@chtwestport.org.
Posted 9/27/2024. Expires 11/27/2024.
Somerville, NJ church seeks part-time organist-choirmaster
St. John’s Episcopal Church in Somerville, NJ is seeking a permanent, part-time Organist-Choirmaster. Working in consultation with the Rector, the Organist-Choirmaster will plan music and lead the parish’s music program. The Parish Choir (adults) includes one professional section leader and eleven volunteers, and currently rehearses on Thursdays, 7:15-8:30, and sings one Sunday service, call at 9:30 service at 10:15, usually no longer than an hour. Usually holy days are included (Christmas, Holy Week, occasional Evensongs). The organ was built by Gress-Miles Co. The choir sings a wide variety of literature, and the choral library contains more than 1,400 titles. It is anticipated that the position will require 8-10 hours weekly, remuneration is $20-25k. To apply, and for more information, contact Father Ron Pollock at frronpollock1@verizon.net or the Parish Office at 908-722-1250.Posted 9/26/2024. Expires 11/26/2024.
The New York Singing Teachers Fall Event
16/32 bar Pop-Rock Workshop with Alicie Green and Natalie Fabian on
Sunday, October 13, 2024 at the National Opera Center, 330 Seventh Avenue (at 29th Street) in New York City. 5-8 PM (reception to follow event). Admission free to NYSTA members. A $15.00 donation is requested at the door for non-members. Visit www.nyst.og/live-events for further info.Posted 9/5/2024. Expires 10/13/2024.
Emerging composer-in-residence position open at Harmonium
Harmonium Choral Society is seeking a young composer at the beginning of their career and a desire to write for chorus to apply for the emerging composer-in-residence position. This is a three-year collaboration with our 100-voice auditioned ensemble in Morristown, NJ, known for its commissioning, creative programming, and collaborations.
The benefits for the composer are:
- At least one work performed each year.
- Support for new works, and an extra fee for longer commissions as appropriate.
- Professional recordings of concerts.
- Work with Dr. Matlack in creating works for themed concert programming.
- The opportunity to workshop with the choir (in person or virtually depending on geography).
- A stipend to serve as a judge for the high school choral composition contest in the spring.
Directed by Dr. Anne J. Matlack since 1987, Harmonium Choral Society is one of New Jersey's leading choral arts organizations. The 100-voice chorus has been recognized for its musical excellence and innovative programming and has commissioned over 30 works by contemporary composers to keep the choral arts vibrant and alive. In addition, the High School Student Choral Composition Contest has won the prestigious Chorus America Education and Outreach Award. Harmonium also sponsors musicianship workshops and an outreach chorus that performs in schools, retirement facilities, and other venues. The chorus tours internationally, most recently to the Balkans in the summer of 2022.
Funding has been made possible in part by Morris Arts through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner of the National Endowment for the Arts.
For more information, visit Harmonium.org or call 973-538-6969.
Posted 9/5/2024. Expires 11/1/2024.
Stamford Chorale seeks tenor and bass section leaders
The Stamford Chorale seeks tenor and bass section leaders for the 2024-25 season beginning in September. The Stamford Chorale has weekly rehearsals from 7:30 to 9:30 PM on Tuesdays at Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 20 Forest Street, Stamford, CT 06901.
Responsibilities:
- Musical leadership within vocal section/ability to field musical questions from members
- Knowledge of director’s marks within score
- Attendance taking within section
- Ability to lead sectionals is a plus
To apply, please e-mail the music director, Billy Janiszewski, at billy@thestamfordchorale.org.
Posted 8/31/2024. Expires 10/31/2024.
Children’s choir forming in Jersey City
Children love to learn, to sing, to ask "why?" and to be involved. St. Augustine said that “he who sings well [emphasis added], prays twice.” Is there a better way to help children to pray than by teaching them to sing the Liturgy, to sing their prayers, to sing 'hosanna to the Son of David'?
Caecilia’s Children, is the children’s choir now forming at the Latin Mass Community at Our Lady of Sorrows in Jersey City. Beginning on Sunday, September 8, 2024, Emma Barakat will be directing this choir together with Simone Ferraresi, the Artistic Director of Cantantes in Cordibus (CIC), which provides the sacred music for the liturgy in Jersey City.
Boys and girls age seven and up are invited to join. Together with the full choir of CIC, the children will sing at the 9:00 AM Latin Mass every Sunday with a 15-minute warm up from 8:25 to 8:40 before Mass and a short rehearsal from 10:30 to 10:45 after Mass.
This choir will endeavor, firstly, to help children grow in their love for Our Lord and the Faith by delving into the Sacred Music patrimony of the Catholic Church. Saint Caecilia, the third century martyr, is of course the patroness of sacred music. The Cecilian movement has been a force for the cultivation of sacred music since Trent.
In order to sing well, the children will be exposed to the solfege method and will learn to use their voice as instrument mastering scales, chants, hymns and, eventually, polyphonic motets. Along the way, they will be exposed to the art of notation (modern and medieval) and musical styles from medieval chant, to Renaissance Polyphony and to modern compositions. The goal will be to combine a love for musical pedagogy and catechesis.
For the initial period of at least six months CIC will provide the funding for this program, though parents may be asked to reimburse CIC for materials provided to the children. Donations may be made to Cantantes In Cordibus to support this. For more information, please e-mail Emma Barakat at emmabarakat6@gmail.com.
Posted 8/23/2024. Expires 10/23/2024.
Rye Country Day School Festival Choir seeks accompanist
Rye Country Day School Festival Choir seeks a strong choral accompanist. This adult community group meets on Monday nights from October 21 to January 13 with Mondays off during school vacations. We are looking for a choral accompanist who is a strong player in a variety of genres, comfortable reading an open choral score and helping the rehearsal process progress. Willingness to run a sectional is a plus, but not required.
Rehearsals are at Rye Country Day School in Rye, NY, walking distance from Metro-North. Remuneration is $150 per service for approximately 10 rehearsals. Please direct your interest to the conductor, Mary Marcell, at mary_marcell@ryecountryday.org.
Posted 8/21/2024. Expires 10/21/2024.
Join the West Village Chorale tour of Portugal and Spain in summer 2025
The West Village Chorale is planning a summer 2025 tour of Portugal and Spain and invites choral singers and their friends and loved ones to join in the voyage!
The 2025 tour dates, set for July 3 through July 14, mark the first time in years that the Manhattan-based chorus will travel to Europe as musical ambassadors, following successful forays to Greece in 2016, Croatia in 2014 and Italy in 2011. The program will include American classics as well as pieces in Spanish and Portuguese from the Old and New Worlds.
Founded in 1971, the West Village Chorale offers three or four concerts a year at its base in Judson Memorial Church on Washington Square, as well as community events such as its beloved Handel's Messiah Sing and Greenwich Village Caroling Walk in December and its well-attended Summer Sings series.
But the group welcomes some more voices to bolster its ranks for the Summer 2025 Iberian tour.
Leading the group in the tour will be Colin Britt, the Chorale's artistic director and conductor since 2016 and director of choral studies at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA since 2023. He'll bring to tour the same sensitive musicianship and thoughtful leadership he's shown directing the Chorale in performances of major works as the Bach B Minor Mass, the Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil and the McMillan Seven Last Words from the Cross, as well as countless contemporary pieces.
The tentative itinerary, starting at a New York airport, includes concerts in Lisbon, the Portuguese coastal resort Vilamoura, Seville and Grenada, before the return to New York via Malaga airport. The total price includes airfare and air-conditioned motor coach transport, nine nights at superior tourist-class hotels, daily breakfast plus four group dinners, guided tours of Lisbon and Seville and paid admission to the Palace National and the Alhambra palace. The trip is coordinated by ACFEA Tour Consultants.
"Our European trips have meant so much to us as a way of spreading our joy with choral music and building a community around it, both here in New York and around the world," said Chorale President Katie FitzGerald. "We also have a lot of fun!"
Singers are welcome to join the Chorale for the tour -- and so are non-singers, as "auditors" along for the ride and the convivial company. To learn more about joining the tour or to sign up, contact Ed Shiner at emshiner411@gmail.com or 917-334-0711. The tentative itinerary and price quotes are available at westvillagechorale.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/WVC-Spain-Portugal-Itinerary.pdf. Monthly payment schedules will be offered for the convenience of participants.
Posted 6/15/2024. Expires 10/15/2024.