Choral

Call for Choral Singers!
Bay Area Classical Harmonies (BACH) is pleased to announce our choral singer auditions for fall 2016. We are seeking intermediate to advanced chorus members with pleasant singing voices and significant choral experience.

AUDITIONS:

Auditions will be held on Thursday, September 15th from 7-10pm and Saturday, September 17th from 10AM-2PM at 317 Washington Street in Downtown Oakland. Auditions will last 15 minutes and consist of vocal range exercises, sight-reading, and singing two contrasting a cappella pieces of your choosing.

Call for Choral Singers!
Bay Area Classical Harmonies (BACH) is pleased to announce our choral singer auditions for fall 2016. We are seeking intermediate to advanced chorus members with pleasant singing voices and significant choral experience.

AUDITIONS:

Auditions will be held on Thursday, September 15th from 7-10pm and Saturday, September 17th from 10AM-2PM at 317 Washington Street in Downtown Oakland. Auditions will last 15 minutes and consist of vocal range exercises, sight-reading, and singing two contrasting a cappella pieces of your choosing.

New Oakland-based vocal ensemble, NovAntiqua is looking for a low bass! We are about to start rehearsals for our Christmas concert, a program of Marian hymns and songs (from DuFay to Sister Act the Movie). Please visit our website at www.novantiqua.org for more information.

Looking for a low bass - we are about to start rehearsals for our Christmas concert, a program of Marian hymns and songs (from DuFay to Sister Act the Movie). Please visit our website at www.novantiqua.org for more information.

The St.Monica Choir sings every other week at St Monica Church in SF. Music Director Matthew Walsh conducts a repertoire which ranges from chant to polyphony to the best in contemporary choral music. The parish is very supportive and the church has a grateful acoustic. These are positions for singers who want to make high level music in the sacred setting.

San Francisco City Chorus is holding three auditions for our Fall Season: August 24, August 31, and September 7--come sit in on a rehearsal starting at 7:00 p.m. and audition afterward. Our Fall Concert, on November 5, will include Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem and “Cantique de Jean Racine” and Benjamin Britten’s “Rejoice in the Lamb” and “Festival Te Deum.” The centerpiece of our Spring Concert, March 25, will be the Grand Mass in C minor, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed with the composer’s complete orchestration.

San Francisco City Chorus is holding three auditions for our Fall Season: August 24, August 31, and September 7--come sit in on a rehearsal starting at 7:00 p.m. and audition afterward. Our Fall Concert, on November 5, will include Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem and “Cantique de Jean Racine” and Benjamin Britten’s “Rejoice in the Lamb” and “Festival Te Deum.” The centerpiece of our Spring Concert, March 25, will be the Grand Mass in C minor, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed with the composer’s complete orchestration.

Program: Brush Up Your Shakespeare: Four Centuries of Songs and Sonnets

This Fall we celebrate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death with musical settings of Shakespeare texts by composers contemporary to him all the way to composers writing today. We have openings in all parts. We know Sopranos, Altos, Tenors and Basses will enjoy singing this delightful and varied program.

Robert Jones: Farewell, Dear Love
Philip Rosseter/J. David Moore: Fear No More The Heat Of The Sun

Those auditioning will be asked to vocalize, sing a brief solo of their choosing (aria, art or folk song, show tune, etc.) and sight-read choral selections provided. Auditions are by appointment with Artistic Director, David Morales. Chorale rehearsals are on Sunday afternoons in Oakland, and occasionally on Tuesday evenings in Lafayette. To learn more about our choirs, please visit our website: http://www.cantareconvivo.org/#!adult-choirs/tmso5

We’re delighted to announce that each of our 2016-17 concerts will feature the world premiere of newly commissioned works. We’ll present a holiday program of works with woodwind quintet that features a new Missa Brevis by local composer Henry Mollicone, and other lesser-known Christmas pieces. In spring 2017 we’ll feature a major new work, “Songs of Isaiah”, composed by our Artistic Director, Sanford Dole, scored for harp and strings. Baroque masters, Pergolesi and J. S. Bach are included as well as other 21st-century gems.