Celebrating Ten Years with the New Choir

New Choir's Multi-City Performance Tour in Korea (June 10 through June 20, South Korea)

The New Choir is celebrating its tenth season with a multi-city performance tour in South Korea. This tour is being sponsored by various civic and arts organizations in Korea including:

Masan Philharmonic Orchestra and City Chorale

Gwacheon City Performing Arts Company

World Vision Korea

Kang Jin County Government

The Songso Old House

The choir will have performances throughout South Korea from Seoul to Jeju Island in 8 cities. We will literally criss-cross the entire country during the 10 days but it will be worth it as we will be performing at wonderful venues and with great choirs. We're looking forward to meeting the choral music lovers of Korea. Click here for the specific venues and the performance schedule.

Farewell Concert for the New Choir Korea Tour (May 23 7 pm, Palo Alto, CA)

The New Choir proudly presents the Farewell Concert. We invite you to share the joy of the wonderful music from our last 10 years. We're extremely excited to highlight our 10th year with a multi-city tour in South Korea in June. As a kick-off for the tour, we will have a concert on May 23 to present a large selection of pieces from the Korea Tour repertoire. Please come and join us in celebrating our tenth season and the kick-off of the Korea Tour.

The choir's performance will include:

Cantate Domino [Monteverdi]

Canite Tuba [Guerrero]

Angelus Domini [Rheinberger]

The Blue Bird [Stanford]

Gahng Gahng Sool Lae [Nack-Kum Paik]

Spirituals

Folk Songs

Spring 2010: Guest Performance at Santa Cruz

Guest Performance with the Santa Cruz Chorale (March 20, 8 pm, Santa Cruz, CA)

The Santa Cruz Chorale, a non-profit organization founded in 1983, performs a wide-ranging repertory that includes works from the 16th century through music of our time. The New Choir was invited, for the second time, to perform at the beautiful Holy Cross Church as the guest of the Santa Cruz Chorale.
The performance included:

Psalm 100 for double choir by Heinrich Shutz (with Santa Cruz Chorale under direction of Christian Grube)

Hebrew Love Songs by Eric Whitacre

Gahng Gahng Sool Lae by Nack-Kum Paik

And works by: Monteverdi, Des Prez, Guerrero, Sweelinck, Delius, Stanford, Grieg, Rhienberger and Brahms

The Santa Cruz Chorale joined in the performance with the New Choir for the Psalm 100 under the direction of Christian Grube, the Conductor and Artistic Director of the Santa Cruz Chorale. The audience greatly enjoyed this unique opportunity to see the two choirs perform together.

New Choir closes its Ninth season with the Summer of Love!

We began our Ninth season with the performance of the great Christmas oratorio Messiah by George Frederic Handel. It was fun to perform at the Le'Petit Trianon Theatre again. It was a great concert and the audience enjoyed the performance and joined the choir for the singing of the Hallelujah chorus.

And before we knew it, it was already time to wrap up our ninth season. Our final performance took place in June with a program that consisted of love songs spanning 600 years. This was probably the most diverse program we've ever had. As always, there were some old music (Renaissance love songs, Bach's Wedding Cantata, Brahm's Liebeslieder Waltzes) and some new music (Eric Whitacre's Hebrew Love Songs, compositions by top young Korean choral composers).

The Pleasanton performance included performances by the Cantabella Children's Choir. The Cantabella choir participated in the Golden Gate International Choral Festival in July, 2009 under the direction of our music director, Eileen Chang. We're extremely pleased to note that the Cantabella Children's Choir placed first in the Historical category and placed second in the Folk category. Director Chang was also honored with a special recognition by the distinguished panel of international judges who presided over the competition.

Eighth was our busiest season ever

We brought the season to a close with our concert in June. This concert was really exciting for us because we did something completely new, literally! We commissioned five new works from three composers specifically for this performance. Five of these works were premiering during the first half of the program and the second half of the program featured Haydn's Organ Mass and Renaissance motets by Hassler, Handl and Gibbons.

It was a wonderful program of old and new music and the June concerts were great success!

We wrapped up our 7th season with a double-choir treat.

The Choral Alchemy of Los Angeles (CALA) and the New Choir joined together under the direction of Eileen Chang for a concert to the heavenly land. The performances were in Anaheim and San Jose. The program included Stanford's motet for double choir, Coelos Ascendit Hodie, Bach's double motet, Komm, Jesu, Komm, and three settings of Kyrie by Dufay, Palestrina and Beethoven. We also had the great pleasure of introducing another new composition by Ms. Nak-Keum Baik, the Jacob's Ladder.

2007 - New Choir Spring concert with CALA

The 7th annual Christmas with the New Choir took you on a journey around the world.

We brought to you an evening of Christmas music with works old and new from all around the world. The program included works by Stanford, Lauridsen, Poulenc, Victoria, Mozart, Mechem and others and the performance set a new record for us for the number of different languages performed in a single concert. We sang in Latin, French, Burgundian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and, of course, Korean and English.

Our thanks to the faithful New Choir audience who again chose to make this concert a part of their Christmas tradition and celebrated Christmas with us!

Our sixth season proved to be a very busy and exciting one. Here are some highlights from the past season:

New Choir 2006 Spring Concert: Conversations with God more info...
New Choir enjoys great reception at the 2006 ACDA Western Division Convention more info...
The 6th Christmas with the New Choir more info...
New Choir selected once again as recipient of grant from the Arts Council Silicon Valley, Community Arts Fund more info...

As always, we are grateful to you, our supporters, for your continued interest and financial support. Without your support, we would not be able to bring you such great news. Thank you once again.

For more information about the New Choir,
call: 408.220.4862 / 408.472.3833
email: info@newchoir.org

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