On April 21, 2012, CanTores Celestes performed the Canadian PREMIERE of Kentaro SaTo's, Veni Sancte Spiritus. This is the third movement, O Lux Beatissima. Video footage: Patric McGroarty www.Totesmcgroats.com

The Graduate Choir NZ with Nicholas Sutcliffe (organ) perform "Dear Lord and FatHer of Mankind" on TVNZ's Praise Be. Words: John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) Hymn tune: RepTon - C. Hubert H. Parry (1848-1918) Arrangement Verse 3: Sir David Willcock...  moreThe Graduate Choir NZ with Nicholas Sutcliffe (organ) perform "Dear Lord and FatHer of Mankind" on TVNZ's Praise Be. Words: John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) Hymn tune: RepTon - C. Hubert H. Parry (1848-1918) Arrangement Verse 3: Sir David Willcocks (b. 1919) --- The Graduate Choir NZ DirecTor of Music: Terence Maskell http://www.graduatechoir.co.nz http://www.facebook.com/TheGraduateChoirNZ http://www.twitter.com/GraduateChoirNZ --- Praise Be - http://tvnz.co.nz/praise-be --- Recorded 31 August 2011 at Pitt St Methodist Church, Auckland, New Zealand. http://www.methodistcentral.org.nz ---  less

The PREMIERE performance of composer Ethan McGrath's "The Passionate ShepHerd To His Love" -- a setting of the famed poem by ChrisTopHer Marlowe. Ethan McGrath assembled the choir specially for this performance. Kelsi Williams and Joshua Farnsworth, vo...  moreThe PREMIERE performance of composer Ethan McGrath's "The Passionate ShepHerd To His Love" -- a setting of the famed poem by ChrisTopHer Marlowe. Ethan McGrath assembled the choir specially for this performance. Kelsi Williams and Joshua Farnsworth, vocal solosits; Tyler Rand, oboe; HeatHer Peel, piano; Ethan McGrath, conducTor.  

  It will be an exciting year for you, for us and the choral community.   We love our job because you give us a better understanding of different cultures and because we appreciate how valuable our work is. During the First WORLD Choir Ga...

God has commanded all his angels Ensembles VoCapella & LaCappella ConducTor: Tristan Meister Music and phoTos by Alwin Michael Schronen Live PREMIERE: Nov 16th 2014 in Bad Homburg/Germany

An anthem from the 2020 Ocean Grove Virtual Choir Festival Dr. Brad Nix, ConducTor/Composer QuinTon Tramm, Audio/Video Production Dr. Jason C. Tramm, DirecTor of Music Ministries For more information on the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting, please visit: w...  moreAn anthem from the 2020 Ocean Grove Virtual Choir Festival Dr. Brad Nix, ConducTor/Composer QuinTon Tramm, Audio/Video Production Dr. Jason C. Tramm, DirecTor of Music Ministries For more information on the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting, please visit: www.OceanGrove.org  

choregie project Vocal theatre Carmina Slovenica ConducTor: Karmina Šilec FORTUNA WON’T BE FAUVEL’S MATCH! pre PREMIERE, Old Hall of Slovene National Theatre Maribor, 2015 Flattery, Avarice, Vileness, Variability, Envy and LecHery Music: L...  morechoregie project Vocal theatre Carmina Slovenica ConducTor: Karmina Šilec FORTUNA WON’T BE FAUVEL’S MATCH! pre PREMIERE, Old Hall of Slovene National Theatre Maribor, 2015 Flattery, Avarice, Vileness, Variability, Envy and LecHery Music: Lojze Lebič (1934): Fauvel ’86 Excerpts from the work Roman de Fauvel (1310 – 1314) Fortuna Won’t Be Fauvel’s Match! is based on a gothic allegorical verse romance in which the central metaphor for moral decay and decadence is an ambitious horse/ass. The main character – Fauvel – is an incarnation of sin, irrationality, unreliability, dominance, flattery. Fortuna Won’t Be Fauvel’s Match! mocks human egotism, hedonism, hypocrisy and excesses of the governing classes, of secular as well as church rule, a society contaminated by sin and corruption. The ruling class is despotic and greedy, forgetting about the natural equality of people. Man through politics/the church is a symbol of everything that is wrong with our society and the system which administers it. Thi...    less

Music has been a part of human civilization for centuries. It is a form of expression that has the power To evoke emotions and connect people from different parts of the WORLD. With so many genres, styles, and artists, the question arises, which is the be...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I regularly get emails out of the blue from various singing groups scattered across the globe asking for gigs. Recently I had one from a Russian ensemble, ...

Maybe tHere is no people who doesn’t know anything about Venice. For some of us Venice is the city of love, for otHers a pinch of hisTory or a sinking wonder WORLD caused by global warming. But it is not so well-known fact that tHere are 115 small i...