The Forest City Fire a cappella chorus aims to sing interesting and challenging music with a High level of precision and expertise. It is our belief that a cappella singing can be enjoyed by people from all ages and all walks of life.

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   A Concert is looming and there are a couple of songs you don’t know that well.   Photo by _foam   You’ll need to put in s...

Lass="view_more">The Concert "ACH! PG Carnivalesque" under the patronage of Prof. Krzysztof Wilde, rector of Gdańsk Tech, attracted several hundred people who listened to daring performances of popular pop music hits. During the performance we heard Choral arrangements of...  Lass="view_more_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">moreLass="view_more" style="display:none;">The Concert "ACH! PG Carnivalesque" under the patronage of Prof. Krzysztof Wilde, rector of Gdańsk Tech, attracted several hundred people who listened to daring performances of popular pop music hits. During the performance we heard Choral arrangements of hits such as: "Dancing Queen", "Memory", "California Dreamin'" and "Maria". This time it was not Mozart or Bach, but ABBA, Queen and songs from the musical West Side Story that graced the walls of the Gdansk University of Technology in carnivalesque musical artistic creations. Jazz musicians performed along with the choir, and the musical effects were accompanied by a unique lighting arrangement, which required appropriate space and audience arrangement. The more-than-hour-long performance by the Academic Choir of the Gdańsk University of Technology, conducted by Prof. Mariusz Mróz and accompanied by musicians from the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz, ended with joint singing, encores and a standing ovation.  Lass="view_less_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">less

Call for Applications: Rhythms of One World International Choral Festival in Ireland, January 12-19, 2015   Early-bird registration for Priority Consideration: by May 15, 2014 Final registration deadline: June 30, 2014 To apply, write...

Lass="view_more">City Songs event at the inaugural City of Derry International Choral Festival. The second performance of the newly commissioned "City Songs" by Latvian composer Eriks Esenvalds, Australian poet Emma Jones and narrator Imogen Heap. The work was comm...  Lass="view_more_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">moreLass="view_more" style="display:none;">City Songs event at the inaugural City of Derry International Choral Festival. The second performance of the newly commissioned "City Songs" by Latvian composer Eriks Esenvalds, Australian poet Emma Jones and narrator Imogen Heap. The work was commissioned by the Voices Now Festival and first performed in the Roundhouse, London, June 2013. The second performance took place on Friday 25th October 2013 in St. Columb's Hall, Derry as part of the inaugural Choral festival. This second performance featured the Holst Singers and Roundhouse Choir from London, Codetta, Encore Contemporary Choir, Colmcille Ladies and the Music Promise Junior Choir from Derry and the Orchestra of Ireland, conducted by Stephen Layton.  Lass="view_less_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">less

The Inspira Chamber Choir (formerly Calgary Youth Chorus) performs the theme from the 1988 Calgary Olympic Winter Games by David Foster at the 10th Golden Gate International Choir Festival (Oakland, CA, USA)

Lass="view_more">Weitere Infos: http://chor.helbling-verlag.de/?pagename=product&product=C7388 Weite melodische Bögen und eine berückende Klangsinnlichkeit kennzeichnet Chris Artleys Vertonung von Psalm 121. Ausgesprochen stimmungsvoll setzt der neuseeländische Komponi...  Lass="view_more_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">moreLass="view_more" style="display:none;">Weitere Infos: http://chor.helbling-verlag.de/?pagename=product&product=C7388 Weite melodische Bögen und eine berückende Klangsinnlichkeit kennzeichnet Chris Artleys Vertonung von Psalm 121. Ausgesprochen stimmungsvoll setzt der neuseeländische Komponist die Klangkörper Chor, einzelne Stimmgruppen, Orgel und Trompete ad lib. miteinander in Beziehung. Ein bewegendes Konzertstück, welches das Publikum unmittelbar in seinen Bann zieht. Broad melodic arches and an enchanting sensuousness of sound characterize Chris Artley's setting of Psalm 121. He sets the choir, the individual groups of voices as well as organ and trumpet ad lib in relationship to each other in an impressively atmospheric manner. It is a moving Concert piece that will immediately fascinate the audience.  Lass="view_less_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">less

"Pater Noster" by Jonathan Adams, performed by the Arkansas State University Concert Choir, Dr. Dale Miller at the 2014 Arkansas All-State Music Conference.

Soprano Susanna Phillips and bass-baritone Shenyang join pianist and program curator Brian Zeger for an all-Schubert evening exploring the High Romantic imagination's obsession with the historical and imagined ancient city of...