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242th Season

Concert Hall

5 February
19:00
2017 | Sunday
Chanticleer chorus
Concert
Artists Credits
Cast to be announced
Cast to be announced


PERFORMERS: 
Cortez Mitchell 
Gerrod Pagenkopf 
Kory Reid 
Alan Reinhardt 
Logan Shields 
Adam Ward 
Chris Albanese 
Brian Hinman 
Andrew Van Allsburg 
Eric Alatorre 
Matthew Knickman 
Marques Jerrell Ruff

Music director: William Fred Scott


PROGRAMME: 
Works by the Renaissance composers on texts from the Song of Songs and from the poetry of Pierre de Ronsard. 
Original and arranged works by Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, Eric Whitacre, Stephen Foster, Mikhail Glinka, Sergei Taneyev, Sergei Rachmaninoff. 
Love Songs by Augusta Read Thomas (commissioned for Chanticleer). 
A selection of popular songs to be selected from French and American films.

 

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Named “the world’s reigning male chorus” by The New Yorker magazine, the Grammy award-winning ensemble Chanticleer embarked on its 39th season in 2016-17. Chanticleer performs over one hundred concerts in the USA and around the world annually. 
Under the direction of Music Director William Fred Scott, Chanticleer will perform this season in fifty-two cities in twenty-two States in the USA, with twenty-six appearances in the San Francisco Bay Area, its home. A winter tour of Europe will feature returns to a number of such acclaimed concert halls as Vienna's Musikverein, Prague’s Rudolfinum, Budapest's Lizst Academy and Dublin's National Concert Hall, as well as a debut at Berlin's Konzerthaus. Other cities included in the tour are Paris, St Petersburg, Pécs, Veszprém, Szeged, Somborn, Siegen, Friedrichshafen and Dachau. 
Thanks to the support of individual contributions, foundation and corporate assistance, the ensemble engages with over five thousand young people each year. The Louis A. Botto Choir – an after-school honours programme for high school and college students – is now in its fifth year, adding to the ongoing programme of in-school ateliers and workshops, Chanticleer Youth Choral Festivals in the Bay Area and around the country, master-classes for university students nationwide and the biannual Chanticleer in Sonoma summer workshop for adult choral singers. The Singing Life – a documentary about Chanticleer’s work with young people – was released in 2008. In 2010, Chanticleer’s education programme was recognised by the Chorus America Education Outreach Award. 
Since Chanticleer began releasing recordings in 1981, the ensemble has sold well over a million copies and won two Grammy awards. Chanticleer’s recordings are distributed by Chanticleer, Naxos, Rhino Records, Arkiv and iTunes among others, and are available on Chanticleer’s website: www.chanticleer.org. 
Chanticleer’s long-standing commitment to commissioning and performing new works was honoured in 2008 by the inaugural Dale Warland/Chorus America Commissioning Award and the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming. Among the over eighty composers commissioned in Chanticleer’s history are Mark Adamo, Mason Bates, Régis Campo, Chen Yi, David Conte, Shawn Crouch, Douglas J. Cuomo, Brent Michael Davids, Anthony Davis, Gabriela Lena Frank, Guido López-Gavilán, Stacy Garrop, John Harbison, William Hawley, Jake Heggie, Jackson Hill, Kamran Ince, Jeeyoung Kim, Tania León, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, Michael McGlynn, Peter Michaelides, John Musto, Tarik O’Regan, Roxanna Panufnik, Stephen Paulus, Shulamit Ran, Bernard Rands, Steven Sametz, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Jan Sandström, Paul Schoenfield, Steven Stucky, John Tavener, Augusta Read Thomas and Janika Vandervelde. 
In 2014 Chorus America conferred the inaugural Brazeal Wayne Dennard Award on Chanticleer’s Music Director Emeritus Joseph H. Jennings to acknowledge his contribution to the African American choral tradition for his 25 year tenure (l983-2009) as a singer and music director with Chanticleer. 
Acclaimed for the “clear-singing” rooster in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer was founded in 1978 by tenor Louis A. Botto, who sang in the ensemble until 1989 and served as Artistic Director until his death in 1997. Chanticleer was named "Ensemble of the Year" by Musical America in 2008 and was included in the American Classical Music Hall of Fame the same year. Chanticleer - a non-profit organisation - has been the recipient of major grants from the Amphion Foundation, the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Dunard Fund/USA, The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation, the Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, The Bob Ross Foundation, Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund and The National Endowment for the Arts.


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