BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Concert Choir and Brattleboro Camerata each offer singers the opportunity to join their musical communities for a new season.
The Brattleboro Concert Choir is a symphonic choir with 90 members from across the region who perform a challenging repertoire, ranging from classic choral masterpieces to rarely heard and newly commissioned works. New singers of all genders and voice types are invited to schedule a low-pressure placement hearing for the 2024–25 season.
Weekly Wednesday evening rehearsals at the Brattleboro Music Center begin Sept. 4, working to prepare a winter program of dance-inspired music by Brahms, Gwyneth Walker, Sydney Guillaume, and Charles Stanford. The spring program will include works for choir and orchestra by José Maurício Nunes Garcia, as well as a newly commissioned world premiere by Brattleboro-based composer Keane Southard.
The Brattleboro Camerata, a chamber choir with 20–25 members exploring Renaissance-era and Renaissance-inspired music, will hold auditions for all voice parts Sunday, Aug. 25, and Wednesday, Aug. 28. Weekly rehearsals will begin on Monday, Sept. 23.
The Camerata's winter program, entitled "Seeing Double: Music for Two Choirs," will include William Byrd's monumental Great Service, and the Mass in G minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The spring program will include a variety of pieces by Adrian Willaert, regarded as perhaps the greatest composer of the high Renaissance during his life and all but forgotten today.
Singers interested in either or both ensembles should contact the Brattleboro Music Center at info@bmcvt.org or 802-257-4523.
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