VIVA!’s six choirs, for ages four through adult, offer members the opportunity to achieve artistic excellence in a singer-centered, collaborative choral community, featuring youth mentoring programs and the TD Bank Group Inclusion Program. Founded in 2...  moreVIVA!’s six choirs, for ages four through adult, offer members the opportunity to achieve artistic excellence in a singer-centered, collaborative choral community, featuring youth mentoring programs and the TD Bank Group Inclusion Program. Founded in 2000 by Carol Woodward Ratzlaff in response to widespread cuts to public school arts programs, 2018-19 marks VIVA!’s 19th season as a downtown family of choirs. VIVA!’s choirs include: the Preparatory Chorus (ages 4-6); the Junior Choir (ages 6-10); the Main Chorus (ages 9-16); the SATB Chamber Choir (senior high school, University students and adults); and the non-auditioned VIVA! Community Choir (SATB) which incorporates Everyone Can Sing (ECS), an auditioned group for those aged 13 and up with disabilities. VIVA’s unique TD Bank Group Inclusion Program provides support for all Singers with disabilities. Also singular to VIVA! is the Choral Mentoring and Leadership Program, which forms an integral part of VIVA!’s structure. This Program provides young l...    less

Traditional carol

Rautavaara 's NirvanaDharma is performed by the CWU Chamber Choir (Gary Weidenaar, director). Presenting many challenges, the 8 minute piece is based on an octatonic scale and divides into as many as 20 parts. For a short while there are 4 conductors. Th...  moreRautavaara 's NirvanaDharma is performed by the CWU Chamber Choir (Gary Weidenaar, director). Presenting many challenges, the 8 minute piece is based on an octatonic scale and divides into as many as 20 parts. For a short while there are 4 conductors. The video includes subtitles. It was recorded May of 2010 in the CentralWashington University Music Building Concert Hall. The choir has also recorded YouTube videos that feature music of Claudio Monteverdi, Ola Gjeilo, John Muehleisen, Vijay Singh and Tomás Luis da Victoria. Monteverdi's Sestina can be found on the following two videos: (pieces 1-3 & 4-6): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5_qClRojFw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G786-GV1NT8 Follow the choir on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CWU.Chamber.Choir  less

Hofstra Chamber Choir performing Jussi Chydenius' "I am the Great Sun (The Chamber Choir comprises the front half or so of this group, thus the non-singing members of Chorale you see in the back... :) David Fryling, Conductor April 2012, Cathedral of...  moreHofstra Chamber Choir performing Jussi Chydenius' "I am the Great Sun (The Chamber Choir comprises the front half or so of this group, thus the non-singing members of Chorale you see in the back... :) David Fryling, Conductor April 2012, Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City, NY  

http://soundcloud.com/last-station/the-light-vessel-performed-by/s-9ExLP We would like to share with you a live recording of the first performance of a new choral work "The Light Vessel" by international musician and composer Trevor Watts, words by Kay S...

More than 150 choirs, over 5'000 choir actors, 14 stages, more than 30'000 people - that's the state choir festival "Rhineland-Palatinate sings", at 2019, 31st of August in Mainz. Come to visit and discover for yourself the great variety of R...  moreMore than 150 choirs, over 5'000 choir actors, 14 stages, more than 30'000 people - that's the state choir festival "Rhineland-Palatinate sings", at 2019, 31st of August in Mainz. Come to visit and discover for yourself the great variety of Rheinland-Palatinate choir music.  

County Town Singers perform On My Own from Les Miserables at their May 7, 2010. Pat Allen soloist.

Exultate (Egg-sul-TAH-teh) is a Chamber choir and orchestra, based in the Twin Cities, MN, founded in 1996 by Dr. Thomas D. Rossin, conductor. Exultate is the Twin Cities' only professional choir with a self-contained orchestra. The group's normal size is...  moreExultate (Egg-sul-TAH-teh) is a Chamber choir and orchestra, based in the Twin Cities, MN, founded in 1996 by Dr. Thomas D. Rossin, conductor. Exultate is the Twin Cities' only professional choir with a self-contained orchestra. The group's normal size is about 45 Singers and 22 instrumentalists. Once a year Exultate expands its ranks to become a larger-than-Chamber festival choir and orchestra, performing and recording such major works for voices and instruments as A German Requiem by Brahms (sung in English), The Seven Last Words of Christ by Théodore Dubois (also in English), Mozart's Grand Mass in C Minor, Francis Poulenc's Gloria, the Mass in B Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach and the Requiems of Gabriel Fauré and John Rutter. Exultate has produced nineteen recordings so far - seven are Christmas albums with unique Christmas carol arrangements, many written especially for Exultate. The other twelve recordings are choral masterworks and works for organ or piano. Please go to www.exultate.org to see more inf...    less

Gaudete, gaudete! Christus est natus Ex Maria virgine, gaudete! Rejoice, rejoice! Christ is born Of the Virgin Mary — rejoice! Tempus adest gratiæ Hoc quod optabamus, The time of grace has come— what we wished for, Carmina lætitiæ Devote...  moreGaudete, gaudete! Christus est natus Ex Maria virgine, gaudete! Rejoice, rejoice! Christ is born Of the Virgin Mary — rejoice! Tempus adest gratiæ Hoc quod optabamus, The time of grace has come— what we wished for, Carmina lætitiæ Devote reddamus. songs of joy Let us render in faith. Deus homo factus est Natura mirante, God has become man, As nature marvels Mundus renovatus est A Christo regnante. The world has been renewed By Christ who reigns Ezechielis porta Clausa pertransitur, We pass through the closed gate of Ezekiel Unde lux est orta Salus invenitur. From the place whence light has risen, Salvation is found. Ergo nostra concio Psallat iam in lustro; Therefore let our gathering Now sing brightly Benedicat Domino: Salus Regi nostro. Let it give praise to the Lord: Salvation to our King.  less

Live recording of The Philippine Madrigal Singers during the final round of the Vocal Ensemble Category at the Florilege Vocal de Tours (France) 2006 - winning 3 First Prizes and the "Grand Prix de la Ville de Tours" - earning them the right to compete fo...  moreLive recording of The Philippine Madrigal Singers during the final round of the Vocal Ensemble Category at the Florilege Vocal de Tours (France) 2006 - winning 3 First Prizes and the "Grand Prix de la Ville de Tours" - earning them the right to compete for the second time in the prestigious European Grand Prix in Arezzo (August 2007). "Dayo Dayo Kupita" -based on a Maranao children's chant composer: Nilo Alcala II