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Here's information on our past concerts...
...was our last concert series held March 7t & 9th, 2008. We're now in rehearsal for our Spring Concert series "Poems to God" set for Friday May 9th 2008 (8:00 p.m. - St. Paul's Church, Salinas) & Sunday May 11th 2008 (3:00 p.m. - First United Methodist Church in Pacific Grove.)
"Faith, Hope, Love" featured music written for chorus and string quartet, as well as a cappella repertoire. “I’m very excited about the unique combination of pieces for this concert,” says Camerata's Music Director John Koza. "This pastiche of choral standards alongside new settings will be quite engaging.” The program includes two settings of Ave verum corpus by William Byrd and Mozart; Beautiful River by William Hawley; I Can Tell the World by Moses Hogan and Randall Thompson’s lovely Alleluia, Maurice Duruflé’s timeless setting of Ubi caritas; When You Are Old by John Kelley; Five Hebrew Love Songs by Eric Whitacre and Beethoven’s Elegischer gesang (Elegy), Op. 118; and a compelling modern composition Nocturne, by American composer Adolphus Hailstork and more.
As with our past March Concerts, Camerata Singers is pleased to include a select group of high school students participating in the concert as our "Camerata Futures" students. The "Futures" program was started by Camerat Singers to provide high school students the opportunity to rehearse and perform advanced choral literature with us. Our students this year are no exception to the rule, they are all accomplished choral singers in their own right and add a wonderful new level of performance to our concerts.
Our Friday concert will be held March 7th, 2008 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Salinas at 8:00 pm and Sunday, March 9th, 2008 at First United Methodist Church in Pacific Grove at 3:00 pm.
Admission in Salinas is $20.00 (student tickets, $15.00); Pacific Grove (Methodist Church) admission is $24.00 (student tickets, $15.00). Tickets are available for purchase with VISA or MasterCard by calling 831.642.2701 or by visiting the following locations:
Carmel: Pilgrim’s Way;
King City: The UPS Store;
Pacific Grove: Bookmark;
Salinas: Gadsby’s Music Co.
For more information, call 831.642.2701
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"This organization is supported in part by a grant from the Arts Council for Monterey County
through funding from the Monterey County Board of Supervisors."
Camerata Singers of Monterey County is a charitable non-profit organization (Tax ID No. 94-2847217). Your contributions are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.
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HERE'S INFORMATION ON SOME OF OUR PAST CONCERTS:
Friday, 8:00 p.m.
December 14th 2007
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Salinas
Saturday, 8:30 p.m.
December 15th, 2007
Carmel Mission
and
Sunday, 3:00 p.m.
December 16th, 2007
Mission San Antonio, Jolon (King City) California
Our conductor John Koza has gathered together a remarkable selection of music he is calling his "Missa Eclectica." A wonderful performance you will not want to miss! Make your plans now to attend one of our concerts for the best start to your holiday season!
Read below about our last concert
Our Spring 2007 Concert series "O Beautiful for Spacious Skies" was performed
May 18, 19, 20, 2007. The May concert series featured great choral music celebrating America:
"Song is a strong thing and the choice of words and music
to represent a great nation is a strong thing."
- Barbara Rose Shuler
As our audience members explained afterwards, the selection of music, the compositions and overall performance by our group deeply moved them. Read here the review by Monterey Herald reporter Barbara Rose Shuler. As you will read by her words, it is not a critique of music foremost in her review, but the emotion, beauty and peace which our songs imbued in her.
For tickets and information on our upcoming series - Christmas 2007, please call (831) 642-2701.
Post Office Box 428
Salinas, California 93902
831.642.2701
Our winter 2006 concert series:
is set for
March 2nd and 4th, 2007
with the
Camerata Futures participants,
a select group of auditioned local high school students.
This year marks the 7th anniversary of the Camerata Futures program, where auditioned high school singers are invited to sing with the Camerata Singers. This year five singers representing four high schools have been accepted into the program. They are:
Rachel Lowery (Pacific Grove High School);
Sidney Penisini and Jorge Torrez (Salinas High School);
Sabrina Brett (Santa Catalina School) and
Stephanie Johnson (York School).
For tickets please call 642-2701.
The Camerata Singers have been celebrating their 25th anniversary this year in many ways.
Our winter concert is set for March 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 2007 with the Camerata Futures participants, a select group of auditioned local high school students.
Our Spring Concert series will be performed May 18, 19, 20, 2007 - stay tuned for for information...
For ticket and other information, please call 642.2701
Three World Premieres by Camerata Singers
This has been a most exciting year for the Camerata Singers. Marking our 25th anniversary, we have commissioned three pieces: San Francisco composer Kirke Mechem wrote for us a lovely setting of Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant us peace) which we sang on our program last May. Monterey native Nathanael Pangrazio gave us the lovely Absalom Fili Mi Absalom my son) which we sang in March with the Mozart Requiem. In May we will sing the world premiere of I Do Not Wish You Joy Without A Sorrow, by Jeffrey H. Rickard, Director of Choral Activities at University of Redlands in southern California. It has been our privilege and our joy to celebrate our 25th anniversary by supporting choral composers in the commissioning of these new compositions.
Welcome and Bon Voyage!
Celebrating 25 years of Monterey County Choral Music !
The Camerata Singers have been celebrating their 25th anniversary this year in many ways.
Anniversaries are times for reflection of the past as well as a time to look to a new future. Camerata Singers is doing just that by introduction of a new venue for our concerts of the 2006-2007 year. Our December performances will take place Friday night, December 15th, 2006 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Saturday night December 16th at San Carlos Cathedral in Monterey and new this year a Sunday matinee, December 17th, also at San Carlos Cathedral.
Our winter concert is set for March 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 2007 with the Camerata Futures participants, a select group of auditioned local high school students.
Our Spring Concert series will be performed May 18, 19, 20, 2007 - stay tuned for for information...
For ticket and other information, please call 642.2701
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Here's a few of our past concert themes and information...
which were held Friday, 8:00 p.m.
December 14th 2007
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Salinas
Saturday, 8:30 p.m.
December 15th, 2007
Carmel Mission
and
Sunday, 3:00 p.m.
December 16th, 2007
Mission San Antonio, Jolon (King City) California
Read below about our last concert
Our Spring 2007 Concert series "O Beautiful for Spacious Skies" was performed
May 18, 19, 20, 2007. The May concert series featured great choral music celebrating America:
"Song is a strong thing and the choice of words and music
to represent a great nation is a strong thing."
- Barbara Rose Shuler
As our audience members explained afterwards, the selection of music, the compositions and overall performance by our group deeply moved them. Read here the review by Monterey Herald reporter Barbara Rose Shuler. As you will read by her words, it is not a critique of music foremost in her review, but the emotion, beauty and peace which our songs imbued in her.
For tickets and information on our next series - Christmas 2007, please call (831) 642-2701.
Post Office Box 428
Salinas, California 93902
831.642.2701
Our March 2007 Winter Concert Series, Copland & Bernstein,
was performed
March 2nd and 4th, 2007
with the Camerata Futures participants, a select group of auditioned local high school students. The series was a fine presentation of Copland and Bernstein selections, with sell-out crowds.
For this concert series, our conductor, John Koza was featured in an article written by Barbara Shuler. Ms. Shuler writes "Intermezzo" in the Monterey County Herald, a Monterey County print newspaper which chronicles classical music. Click here to read her article about John.
This year marked the 7th anniversary of the Camerata Futures program, where auditioned high school singers are invited to sing with the Camerata Singers. This year five singers representing four high schools have been accepted into the program. They were: Rachel Lowery (Pacific Grove High School); Sidney Penisini and Jorge Torrez (Salinas High School); Sabrina Brett (Santa Catalina School); Stephanie Johnson (York School). The Camerata Futures program is designed to mentor young singers in singing significant major choral works with orchestral accompaniment. We believe participation by these high school students encourages their future participation in performing arts as both performers and audience members. In fact, Robin (Robbie) Russell, a past member of the Camerata Futures program, is now a full-fledged member of our group.
The Camerata Singers have been celebrating their 25th anniversary this year in many other ways.
Marking our 25th anniversary, we commissioned three pieces: San Francisco composer Kirke Mechem wrote for us a lovely setting of Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant us peace) which we sang in our May 2005. Monterey native Nathanael Pangrazio gave us the lovely Absalom Fili Mi (Absalom my son) which we sang in March 2006 with the Mozart Requiem. This past May, 2006 we performed the world premiere of I Do Not Wish You Joy Without A Sorrow, by Jeffrey H. Rickard, Director of Choral Activities at University of Redlands in southern California. It has been our privilege and our joy to celebrate our 25th anniversary by supporting choral composers in the commissioning of these new compositions.
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