AUDITION NOTICE
HARMONIUM CHORAL SOCIETY
WHEN: August 20 through 22 and September 3 through 10
WHERE: Grace Church, Main Street, Madison
Please email Dr. Anne Matlack, Artistic Director (left), at director@harmonium.org to schedule an appointment.
Harmonium Choral Society has a limited number of openings in all voice parts for experienced singers with good sight-reading skills. Auditions for the 2015-2016 concert season will be held by appointment only.
Weekly rehearsals for the upcoming year begin Sunday, September 13, 2015 at Grace Lutheran Church in Mendham. The Harmonium concert season includes three concerts with the full chorus—held in December, March and June—and a concert featuring the select Harmonium Chamber Singers in April. The season also includes special appearances throughout the year.
The December concert, "Spem in Alium", features Tallis’s glorious 40-voice renaissance motet in surround sound as well as works celebrating the hopes of the season, by composers ranging from Praetorius to Paulus, Rutter and Dale Trumbore, with strings and organ. It will be held at 8pm Saturday, December 12 and 3pm Sunday, December 13 at St Peter's Church in Morristown.
The program for March, "Why Do the Nations Rage?", features Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and works by Mendelssohn, Tormis, Raminsh, Laciano and more, with organ, percussion and harp. Saturday, March 5, 8 pm and Sunday, March 6, 3pm, at the Morristown United Methodist Church.
Rounding out the year, the June season finale is titled "Magic and Mysteries." An eclectic selection of choral works from around the world covering the sacred and mystical to the secular and magical will be presented. Composers include Monteverdi, Schumann, Sarasola, Dubra, Matthew Harris and the winner of the 19th annual New Jersey High School Student Choral Composition Contest. Saturday, June 4 and Sunday, June 5 at 7:30pm held in Grace Church, Madison.
Harmonium concert soloists are selected from the chorus’s 100-voice membership, over one-third of whom are professional musicians and/or music educators. Singers are also invited to audition for the Harmonium Chamber Singers, a 20-voice vocal ensemble selected from the full Harmonium chorus.
ABOUT HARMONIUM CHORAL SOCIETY
Harmonium, one of New Jersey’s leading choral arts organizations, is known for its eclectic programming and community spirit. The 100-voice chorus - which includes a large number of music educators - sponsors commissions, premieres, and musicianship workshops, as well as an Outreach Chorus which performs in schools, nursing homes and other venues. Harmonium has performed at Carnegie Hall, for the Eastern Division Convention of the American Choral Directors Association, the American Guild of Organists, and collaborated with the New Jersey Shakespeare Theater, the New Jersey Festival Orchestra, the New Jersey Youth Chorus and others. They have toured internationally and are planning a Baltic tour for July 2016. For more information, visit www.harmonium.org or follow us on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook!
