New York Choral Consortium Launches Second Annual Sing New York! Choral Festival

Kent Tritle and John D. Goodwin, co-chairs of the New York Choral Consortium announced a second annual city-wide choral festival to celebrate the abundance and variety of choral music in New York. The aim of the festival is to bring a greater awareness of the choral art in our city. The Festival begins with a Choral Kick-Off on April 15 featuring performances by members choruses at St Ignatius Antioch and St Luke in the Fields from 2:00-5:00 pm. The Festival will run from April 15 through June 15, 2012, and encompasses performances by more than 40 New York City choral groups.

The Festival is open to any choral ensemble giving a public performance in any of the five boroughs between April 15 and June 15, 2011. Some 40 NYCC member choruses will be participating including:

Voices of Ascension Amuse Singers
Musica Sacra The New York Choral Society
Tenet The Oratorio Society of New York
Cantori New York The New Amsterdam Singers
Amor Artis Canticum Novum
Riverside Choral Society Central City Chorus
Collegiate Chorale New Amsterdam Singers
The New York Virtuoso Singers The Dessoff Choirs

The Festival’s official website – www.SingNewYork.org – provides a complete listing of all events, with links to the individual chorus website for ticketing and program details. Groups interested in participating can sign up and add their events to the calendar on the site.

The Festival will close with a gala Choral Finale. This massed-choral sing will take place on Monday, June 11, 2011, 7:30 pm at the Church of Saint Paul the Apostle, Columbus Avenue at West 59th Street. Last year’s Choral Finale included more than 600 choral singers, and this year’s event is expected to exceed that number. Conducted by some of New York City’s best-known choral conductors, the performance will feature favorite choruses drawn from the a broad cross-section of the choral repertoire. Seating will be available to non-singers on a first-come, first-serve basis.

The number of events under this Festival’s umbrella provides a thrilling cross-section of New York City choruses – amateur, semi-professional, and professional, some with just a few singers, some numbering almost 200. The music they perform is equally varied – from Gregorian chant and classical masterpieces to world premieres of newly-commissioned works. For the most up-to-date listing of Festival events, visit www.SingNewYork.org.