Many music lovers in and around the Bay Area are choral singers and enjoy attending the concerts of a long list of choral organizations that so beautifully perform in our area. Now there is an opportunity for singers, composers, conductors, music educators and general public to enjoy a new choral festival. This inaugural festival, Treble Voices Now, hosted by WomenSing, will explore contemporary classical music that is specifically written for upper-voiced choirs.
On Friday, April 11th and Saturday April 12th (at the Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church), WomenSing will be joined by the Advanced Performing Chorus of the Contra Costa Children’s Chorus and both Bella Voce and the Women’s Ensemble from Acalanes High School. Participants will enjoy the unique opportunity to fine-tune two new compositions from this year’s Youth Inspiring Youth – Commissioning Emerging Composers competition winners, Chris Castro and Jordan Nelson. The young composers will describe their works and explain such structural decisions as key changes and particular phrasing with the poetry and text in mind. The singers will become involved in trying out proposed changes as composers and mentors experiment and arrive at a final product. In addition, the guest choirs will have their own clinics where they can explore their own contemporary repertoire. These events will be a unique and new kind of master class that the general public can attend, observe and hear.
Join WomenSing and the Treble Voices Now choirs on Friday evening, April 11th from 6:30 to 9:30 to listen in on the Public Workshop with clinicians Martín Benvenuto and Cristian Grases. Then return on Saturday morning, April 12th to observe Clinics where the guest choirs explore their own contemporary repertoire. The Concert, which showcases all the choirs, will be on Saturday, April 12th at 3:00 at the Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church Sanctuary. Hear each choir perform their own material, culminating in workshop performances of the Youth Inspiring Youth compositions. The Workshop on Friday, and the Clinics and Concert on Saturday are free and open to the public. For more information visit: https://www.womensing.org.
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On Friday, April 11th and Saturday April 12th (at the Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church), WomenSing will be joined by the Advanced Performing Chorus of the Contra Costa Children’s Chorus and both Bella Voce and the Women’s Ensemble from Acalanes High School. Participants will enjoy the unique opportunity to fine-tune two new compositions from this year’s Youth Inspiring Youth – Commissioning Emerging Composers competition winners, Chris Castro and Jordan Nelson. The young composers will describe their works and explain such structural decisions as key changes and particular phrasing with the poetry and text in mind. The singers will become involved in trying out proposed changes as composers and mentors experiment and arrive at a final product. In addition, the guest choirs will have their own clinics where they can explore their own contemporary repertoire. These events will be a unique and new kind of master class that the general public can attend, observe and hear.
Join WomenSing and the Treble Voices Now choirs on Friday evening, April 11th from 6:30 to 9:30 to listen in on the Public Workshop with clinicians Martín Benvenuto and Cristian Grases. Then return on Saturday morning, April 12th to observe Clinics where the guest choirs explore their own contemporary repertoire. The Concert, which showcases all the choirs, will be on Saturday, April 12th at 3:00 at the Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church Sanctuary. Hear each choir perform their own material, culminating in workshop performances of the Youth Inspiring Youth compositions. The Workshop on Friday, and the Clinics and Concert on Saturday are free and open to the public. For more information visit: https://www.womensing.org.
Many music lovers in and around the Bay Area are choral singers and enjoy attending the concerts of a long list of choral organizations that so beautifully perform in our area. Now there is an opportunity for singers, composers, conductors, music educators and general public to enjoy a new choral festival. This inaugural festival, Treble Voices Now, hosted by WomenSing, will explore contemporary classical music that is specifically written for upper-voiced choirs.
On Friday, April 11th and Saturday April 12th (at the Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church), WomenSing will be joined by the Advanced Performing Chorus of the Contra Costa Children’s Chorus and both Bella Voce and the Women’s Ensemble from Acalanes High School. Participants will enjoy the unique opportunity to fine-tune two new compositions from this year’s Youth Inspiring Youth – Commissioning Emerging Composers competition winners, Chris Castro and Jordan Nelson. The young composers will describe their works and explain such structural decisions as key changes and particular phrasing with the poetry and text in mind. The singers will become involved in trying out proposed changes as composers and mentors experiment and arrive at a final product. In addition, the guest choirs will have their own clinics where they can explore their own contemporary repertoire. These events will be a unique and new kind of master class that the general public can attend, observe and hear.
Join WomenSing and the Treble Voices Now choirs on Friday evening, April 11th from 6:30 to 9:30 to listen in on the Public Workshop with clinicians Martín Benvenuto and Cristian Grases. Then return on Saturday morning, April 12th to observe Clinics where the guest choirs explore their own contemporary repertoire. The Concert, which showcases all the choirs, will be on Saturday, April 12th at 3:00 at the Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church Sanctuary. Hear each choir perform their own material, culminating in workshop performances of the Youth Inspiring Youth compositions. The Workshop on Friday, and the Clinics and Concert on Saturday are free and open to the public. For more information visit: https://www.womensing.org.
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On Friday, April 11th and Saturday April 12th (at the Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church), WomenSing will be joined by the Advanced Performing Chorus of the Contra Costa Children’s Chorus and both Bella Voce and the Women’s Ensemble from Acalanes High School. Participants will enjoy the unique opportunity to fine-tune two new compositions from this year’s Youth Inspiring Youth – Commissioning Emerging Composers competition winners, Chris Castro and Jordan Nelson. The young composers will describe their works and explain such structural decisions as key changes and particular phrasing with the poetry and text in mind. The singers will become involved in trying out proposed changes as composers and mentors experiment and arrive at a final product. In addition, the guest choirs will have their own clinics where they can explore their own contemporary repertoire. These events will be a unique and new kind of master class that the general public can attend, observe and hear.
Join WomenSing and the Treble Voices Now choirs on Friday evening, April 11th from 6:30 to 9:30 to listen in on the Public Workshop with clinicians Martín Benvenuto and Cristian Grases. Then return on Saturday morning, April 12th to observe Clinics where the guest choirs explore their own contemporary repertoire. The Concert, which showcases all the choirs, will be on Saturday, April 12th at 3:00 at the Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church Sanctuary. Hear each choir perform their own material, culminating in workshop performances of the Youth Inspiring Youth compositions. The Workshop on Friday, and the Clinics and Concert on Saturday are free and open to the public. For more information visit: https://www.womensing.org.
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