Kantorei of Kansas City is joining forces with composer Matthew Harris on what promises to be an exciting and dynamic recording project. We will be presenting the bulk of our projected album at our spring concerts on May 18th and 19th. Matthew Harris's...  moreKantorei of Kansas City is joining forces with composer Matthew Harris on what promises to be an exciting and dynamic recording project. We will be presenting the bulk of our projected album at our spring concerts on May 18th and 19th. Matthew Harris's highly popular choral works have been commissioned or premiered by leading choruses such as the Dale Warland Singers, Phoenix Bach Choir, Los Angeles Chamber Singers, Western Wind, and Cantori New York, and sung by countless school and community choirs across America. His A Child's Christmas in Wales, a cantata for chorus and orchestra commissioned by Harmonium, is performed throughout the US and the UK. Mr. Harris studied at The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has taught at Fordham University and Kingsborough College (CUNY) and in 1988 founded Harris Musiciology. He lives and works in New York City. G. Schirmer and C. F. Peters publish his music, and Chandos, Albany, Cedille and CRI Records represent him on disc.  less

Since 2008 we have been coming together in central London to learn and perform sea-shanties, murder ballads, protest Songs, work Songs, love melodies, folkified non-folkSongs, and good old knees-up tunes, from across the centuries and all over the world.

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Last week I wrote about why you shouldn’t be too quick to dismiss Songs that aren’t in English. T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) This week ...

Te Deum Chamber Choir www.te-deum.org Micah Horton, tenor Sora Park, pianist Live performance, October 20, 2019 Village Presbyterian Church, Prairie Village, Kansas Sopranos: Lucy Conklin, Katherine Dick, Rupal Gupta, Nicole Murray, Victori...  moreTe Deum Chamber Choir www.te-deum.org Micah Horton, tenor Sora Park, pianist Live performance, October 20, 2019 Village Presbyterian Church, Prairie Village, Kansas Sopranos: Lucy Conklin, Katherine Dick, Rupal Gupta, Nicole Murray, Victoria Olson, Sydney Seratte, Sarah Sheldon Altos: Joanna Ehlers, Abby Helt, Nanette Kraus, Ann Lewis, Hilary Morton, Michaela Schenkel, Rosie Smith Tenors: Tom Assel, Josh Donaldson, Micah Horton, Jeff Jasperson, Colin Riley, Andrew Wilson Basses: Kyle Chamberlin, Andrew Cunard, Jonathan Daniel, Jon Duncan, Ken Foley, Nick Gillock I am a poor pilgrim, a pilgrim of sorrow. I’m left in this wide world, this wide world alone! Ain’t got no hope, got no hope for tomorrow. Trying to make it, make heaven my home. Sometimes I’m tossed and I’m driven, Lord. Sometimes I just don’t know which way to turn. I heard of a City, a City called heaven. Trying to make it, make heaven my home.  less

 [this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Some time ago I tried a new idea (for me any way) for helping people to learn Songs.   Photo by Ramesh Lalwani   I decided to associa...

We have joined with five leading Cornish choirs and young people to sing this song, with its message to the G7 of hope for an environmentally safer future. Our thanks to Truro Choral Society, Three Spires Singers, St Mary’s Singers, Cornwall County Youth ...  moreWe have joined with five leading Cornish choirs and young people to sing this song, with its message to the G7 of hope for an environmentally safer future. Our thanks to Truro Choral Society, Three Spires Singers, St Mary’s Singers, Cornwall County Youth Choir, Cornwall Youth Chamber Choir and our special thanks to our soloists: - Adam Delbridge-Smith, Isabelle Thorns, Rosina Flint, Will Randlesome, Martha Jones and Freddie Parsons.  

A wonderful performance by Imo City Chorale Owerri at the just Concluded ECOWAS music festival Uyo Akwa-Ibom State Nigeria

Chizaram as Composed by Dr Jude Nnam performed by Imo City Chorale and Orchestra Owerri

Choral competition in Kork (Ireland), May 2013

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I’m often asked by concert-goers and choir leaders alike:   “Where do you get all your Songs from?”     Well, here...