Ars Nova Choir
Custodio Groves
Nova Singers, Nova Southeastern University's premier community chorus, boasts a rich 48-year history. This volunteer choir unites approximately 140 voices, from NSU undergraduates to seasoned singers from the local community.
More than just a choral group, Nova Singers are musical ambassadors for NSU, gracing audiences across the country and internationally. Their prestigious performance history includes iconic venues like Carnegie Hall and Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.
Do you have a passion for singing and a desire to be part of a vibrant choral community? Nova Singers welcomes singers of all ranges, with particular openings for tenors and basses! Share your talent and love of music through a rewarding audition process.
The Nova Singers take pride in nurturing the next generation of musical talent. Through the Changing Lives Peggy Joyce Barber Scholarship, they offer a helping hand to aspiring young vocalists. This annual scholarship of $1,000 is awarded to a deserving Nova Southeastern University student pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Music. Supported entirely by the generous contributions of Nova Singers members, the scholarship exemplifies their commitment to giving back to Nova Southeastern University and fostering a love for music in future generations.
Your gift can help us serve our mission as artists, educators, and ambassadors of the choral art. Donations to the Nova Singers are used to enhance the choral experience for both our audiences and singers, and are used to expand our musical library, hire orchestra players and other musicians, and provide scholarships for singers who would otherwise be unable to participate.
The choral music program at Lewis & Clark seeks to provide students with high-level choral singing experiences that enhance their understanding of vocal technique, choral methods, and music history through performing literature from many stylistic periods and countries. Best of all, the students who comprise the choral program are energetic, dedicated, and enthusiastic, and have a wonderful time singing together.
Student vocalists, regardless of major, have the opportunity to study voice privately, take part in opera and musical theater workshops and performances, and take courses in vocal pedagogy and vocal literature. There are music scholarships available for singers. Please see the scholarship page for more information.
New choir members are welcome every semester! To begin a choir in the Spring semester, email Kathy FitzGibbon to set up a placement audition either during the Fall semester or during the first week of the Spring.
The Ars Nova Singers is a choral ensemble based in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1986, Ars Nova Singers is composed of about 40 singers who were selected through auditions from the Boulder / Denver metropolitan area. Ars Nova has achieved significant national recognition, recording ten critically acclaimed solo recordings as well as performing on seven recordings with Boulder composer and instrumentalist, Bill Douglas.[1]
Ars Nova performs a variety of music but specializes in a cappella works of Renaissance masters and contemporary works by 20th and 21st century composers. The ensemble's musical accomplishments include performances of the music of Hildegard of Bingen, concerts of the complete Responsoria by the late-Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo, acclaimed performances of the a cappella works of Rachmaninoff (the Vespers and Liturgy of St. John), and the commissioning and premiering of new works.
Since their founding, the Ars Nova Singers has done over 300 live performances of over 100 concert programs. The group has been featured on radio broadcasts throughout North and South America, Australia, Japan, and Europe, including such National Public Radio programs as The First Art, Music from the Hearts of Space, and locally on Colorado Public Radio's Colorado Matters and Colorado Spotlight programs.
Honors include an invitation-only performance on National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. (2006); performances at the national conventions of Chorus America (2002); and The American Guild of Organists (1998); and with world renowned vocal group VOCES8 (2023); and support from the Chorus Program of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Performing Ensembles program of the Aaron Copland Fund for Music.
The choir has participated in commissioning/new music projects, performing new works by Libby Larsen, Stephen Paulus, Luis Jorge Gonzlez, Jan Gilbert, R. Anthony Lee, and Terry Schlenker. In September 2002 the ensemble premiered I Heard a Voice, a major new work composed by Thomas Edward Morgan and New York visual artist Lesley Dill and subsequently performed internationally at the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam, British Columbia (2003). In 2007, the ensemble premiered a commissioned work by composer Steven Stucky, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize.
"Laura is passionate about her work and strives to cultivate that passion in her students. She is dedicated to expanding the repertoire of her choirs. This provides each singer with the opportunity to sing three or more different languages and a wide range of musical styles in one concert. Laura is more to her students than just a professor or a conductor; she is a friend."
-Ashley Palar, Anthropology & Sociology Major
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Tony Shield has conducted Cappella Nova since 2001. His first love was as an orchestral musician, playing the horn in the National Youth Orchestra. However, singing was always an important strandin his musical education and at Cambridge, where he read music, he sang the daily services in his college choir. During his career in music education, Tony conducted choirs regularly in venues suchas Birmingham Town Hall, Eton College Chapel and The Royal Festival Hall in London. Since founding Cappella Nova, Tony has conducted the choir in a wide repertoire of music mostly a cappella acrossBath and north Wiltshire.
If you love to sing, you may be interested in joining Vox Nova. This small choral performance group sings a variety of styles and genres and offers many opportunities to perform both on- and off-campus.
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All students applying to the program must successfully complete an audition. You will be tested for aural and general music skills and asked to sing two solo vocal works of contrasting style and time period. An information sheet, sent with your application materials, concerning your recorded audition must accompany the recording when submitted.
Vox Nova student performers in a Bachelor degree program may choose to complete a choral performance minor. A student enrolled in the minor must be a member of Vox Nova for six semesters at two credits each semester.
Three letters of recommendation.
Two letters should be from professional musicians (e.g. choir director, private voice/instrument instructor, musical theatre director, etc.) who can testify to your musical abilities, strengths and achievements. The third letter should be from a non-musical, non-family member who has observed you in a setting requiring responsibility and individual strengths (e.g. employer, volunteer supervisor, clergy, etc.).
The public is invited to attend the March concerts of Nova Singers when they will present the Durufl Requiem with orchestra. Please visit www.nova.edu/novasingers to learn about the history of the Nova Singers and for concert dates, venues and ticket information.
The Feb. 5 concert is likely to be the last performance by Barry Manilow in South Florida. Following a final appearance in Pensacola, Mr. Manilow will perform in England after which time he will be retiring as a vocal artist and writer following a career that began in the 1960s.
The Choirs of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Edward Wickham (conductor)
The two resident choirs of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and their director Edward Wickham, join together to record this stunning and evocative selection of contemporary Christmas carols. The college can boast having the first and only college-based Oxbridge girls' choir, and its own beautiful chapel in the very heart of Cambridge, provided the venue for this debut recording of the recently founded St Catharine's Girls' Choir.
Joined by the student choir, the album features premieres from such composers as Richard Rodney Bennett, Roxanna Panufnik, Cecilia McDowall and John Tavener. It also includes works specially written for the Girls' Choir by Stevie Wishart and Christopher Fox.
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We are a Dorset choir performing beautiful classical music in concert. We also sing for weddings, conferences and charity events in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole; the New Forest; and across Dorset and Hampshire.
Behr, along with a dozen other women, stood in front of the crowd as part of the Bella Nova Choir. The choir was led by director Elizabeth Brennan, who frequently encouraged those gathered there to sing along.
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