Auditions: South Bend Chamber Singers
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Audtions: South Bend Chamber Singers
Date: August 26-September 4, 2011
Time: Please call (574) 284-4632 or (574) 233-6927 to schedule an audition time.
Where: Room 309, Moreau Center for the Arts
Description: The South Bend Chamber Singers, the region's premier vocal chamber ensemble, announces auditions for experienced singers. Singers should bring a prepared solo, and sight-reading and aural abilities will be tested. An accompanist is provided.
The South Bend Chamber Singers, under the direction of conductor and Saint Mary's College music professor Nancy Menk, is preparing for its 23rd season. Below are the scheduled events.
The South Bend Chamber Singers, Michiana’s premier vocal chamber ensemble, announces auditions for experienced singers. Auditions will be held August 26-September 4 in Room 309 Moreau Center for the Arts on the Saint Mary's College campus. Singers should bring a prepared solo, and sight-reading and aural abilities will be tested. An accompanist is provided. Please call (574) 284-4632 or (574) 233-6927 to schedule an audition time. For more information please visit our web site at www.SouthBendChamberSingers.org
Concerts for the coming year include Christmas at Loretto on December 18, featuring music for the season performed in a great acoustical space. Repertoire will include the world premiere of a new work by American composer John Muehleisen. On March 4th we will join with the fabulous Minnesota-based bluegrass band Monroe Crossing to present A Bluegrass Mass and More, featuring the Indiana premiere of American composer Carol Barnett’s The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass. We’ll repeat this performance on March 7 in Fort Wayne, Indiana for the Central Division Conference of the American Choral Directors Association. We’ll close our season on May 20th back at the Church of Loretto with Music for a Sacred Space. We’ll welcome back our former accompanist and guest organist David Eicher for performances of Handel’s Dixit Dominus, James MacMillan’s Magnificat, and Czech composer Petr Ebens’ Prague Te Deum.