On our March, 2019 concert Out of the Garden, Into the Woods: From Paradise to Scary we have the privilege of presenting one of the truly great a cappella choral masterpieces of the 20th Century, the Six Chansons (1939), on Rainer Maria Rilke's poems in French, by...

As the Choral Artists presents a rich concert of American music, you might wonder what our Dresden-based Composer-Not-in-Residence has been up to. What does it mean to compose across the boundaries of language and culture? How is music changed by the identities of the...

What’s it like to move music from your head to the page, then have someone else take it from the page to the concert hall? How do you coalesce a nebulous theme into a singular idea, then evolve that idea into a discrete piece?  What do coding and composing have in...

by Katie Bent, alto “...was that right?” The first time we “sang” Schoenberg’s De Profundis, that question was met with a whole lot of nervous laughter. We’d made it through all of seven bars, and even the most confident readers among us weren’t sure if we’d sung any...