The Cantilena Chamber Choir Presents
A Berkshire Composer’s Concert & Workshop
The Cantilena Chamber Choir will present a concert and workshop by area composers on Sunday, March 4, at
The event will include a presentation of new choral works followed by an open dialogue among the composers, the choir and conductor, Andrea Goodman, on various aspects of the piece and its performance with the score on view for the audience. After each work, discussion will revolve around the accuracy of the choir's interpretation of the composer's intentions, and how the work could have been more effectively written or performed.
"This is a unique opportunity for these composers to be able to hear their works performed by a choir of this calibre," Goodman said.
The concert is free and open to the public (but with a suggested donation of $15.00). Students are especially encouraged to attend at no cost thanks to generous grants from Berkshire Life Insurance Company, the High Meadow Foundation, and the Golub Foundation. Reservations (recommended) can be made by phone at 518-791-0185 or by email at
The featured composers at the March 4 concert and workshop are:
Steve Murray,
Charles Fitzhugh, Lee: Choral singer, composer, and pianist for the
Alice Spatz, Lanesborough: Classical free-lance double bassist and teacher of double bass, music theory and composition at the
James Bergin, Williamstown: Composer and Artistic Director of NotaRiotous, a Boston-based chamber ensemble dedicated to performance of microtonal music.
John Newell,
Clive Davis,
Now in its third season, the 24-voice Cantilena ensemble includes professional singers and instrumentalists as well as music educators. It has been described by Berkshire Record music critic Simon Wainrib as having an “an appealing transparency of vocal texture, a clean articulation of the texts, a flawless vocal balance, and, above all, a near-perfect intonation of unaccompanied voices….”
The choir began its season in a joint appearance with the Empire Brass in their
The group is under the artistic direction of Andrea Goodman, who is also the director of the Saratoga Choral Festival, an annual summer concert series for chorus and orchestra in
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