Auditions

AUDITIONS FOR EXPERIENCED CHORAL SINGERS
THE CANTATA SINGERS
2008-2009 SEASON

Wednesday, September 3, 2008, beginning at 6:40 p.m.
Sunday, September 7, 2008, beginning at 1:40 p.m.

Brookline, MA
Appointment required: Call 617-868-5885 or email jeff@cantatasingers.org

Requirements for audition:
* One prepared piece
* Sight reading

The Cantata Singers' 45th season features the music of Benjamin Britten, Faure, Bach, and Beethoven. Paid opportunities include solos roles, teaching/performing in Cantata Singers' "Classroom Cantatas" in-school music composition and performance program, as well as touring possibilities of shows connected to the education program.

Rehearsals are Wednesday nights in Brookline.

New! Student rush tickets

A limited number of $10 student rush tickets will be available at the Cantata Singers concert will-call table beginning at 7:30 p.m.  We accept cash only, and you must present your student ID.  Rush tickets will be available for the Jordan Hall concerts only.

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Press Quotes 2006-2007 Season

“ . . . the performance was unquestionably skillful.  Music Director David Hoose conducts with deliberateness and clarity, and his 44 singers make a rich, beautifully blended sound.”                
-- David Perkins, The Boston Globe, November 15, 2007

“Of the many memorable new works performed this year by our excellent new-music groups, my favorite – no surprise to me – was the exquisite new choral piece by John Harbison, But Mary Stood, commissioned by the Cantata Singers and led by David Hoose with touching fervor.”    
-- A Year in Classical (2006), Lloyd Schwartz, The BostonPhoenix, December 20, 2006

“The chorus sounded excellent.  [The soloists] were . . . both marvelously pure-toned and eloquent. . . . There was plenty of distinguished choral singing and felicitous playing drawn from the orchestra . . .”
-- Jeremy Eichler, The Boston Globe, January 22, 2007

“David Hoose . . . led magical and magisterial performances.  . . . an exuberant, life-affirming performance . . .”
-- Lloyd Schwartz, The BostonPhoenix, January 23, 2007

“What a discriminating audience the Cantata Singers get.  The biggest rounds of applause for their gripping Bach B-minor Mass went quite rightly to the outstanding [soloists] . . . to the marvelous chorus and orchestra . . . and to music director David Hoose, whose intense sense of Bach’s extremities . . . is the driving force of his conducting.”
-- Lloyd Schwartz, The BostonPhoenix, March 28, 2007
  
“A good performance . . . will leave you exhausted, drained by the monumentality of Bach’s musical and spiritual vision.  A great performance will leave you exhilarated, as if the music itself had somehow done the hard work and left you with a powerful rush of vitality in its wake.  Sunday’s concert by the Cantata Singers fell into this second category.  In their hands the Mass was not only epic but also intensely human and personal.  The music had more energy and intensity than any performance of the piece I can remember . . . the greatest soloist in Bach’s Mass is the chorus, and here the Cantata Singers are virtually in a class by themselves.  Their union of polish and expressivity is an ongoing wonder.  Hearing them sing the majestic closing ‘Dona nobis pacem’ was like seeing the first rays of daylight slowly overtake the night sky, ending in a blaze of radiant sound.”
-- David Weininger, The Boston Globe, March 20, 2007

“ . . . a particularly rousing performance . . . Hoose’s direction was vigorous and engaged.”
-- Jeremy Eichler, The Boston Globe, May 14, 2007

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2005-2006 Press Quotes
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