The Cleveland Chamber Choir thanks you for your support over the last six years.
We hope you will join us for our exciting and ambitious 2021-2022 season!
Mark your calendars now so you don't miss any of these amazing concerts!
November 6, 2021 - Members of the Cleveland Chamber Choir, under the direction of Corey Fowler, are pleased to appear at St. Ambrose with their program, "A Season of Thanksgiving." This program presents works that celebrate life and gratitude, as a way of marking the tribulations experienced by musicians and audiences over the last year. Featured composers include Kerry Andrew, Mark Butler, Betty Jackson King, and Gwyneth Walker.
December 11 & 12, 2021 - We will unveil a holiday program entitled "Carols Around the World" with music of thanksgiving as well as holiday selections from across the globe, and of course another Hannukah song commission by local composer Corey K. Rubin.
February 26 & 27, 2022 - We present “Cecilia and Her World.” These concerts will be a celebration of the wonderful choral music of award-winning British composer Cecilia McDowall. Besides several of her pieces, the concert will include music she considers influential in her own style. I am also ecstatic to announce that we have commissioned her to write a new piece for us to premiere! Additionally, several collegiate choirs will join us, all performing McDowall’s music.
June 11 & 12, 2022 - These concerts, entitled “World of Doubt, World of Faith,” appropriately close our season with music both questioning existence and demonstrating the resilience of the human race. Central to this program is Adam Roberts’ (Kent State University) multi-movement work for 16-part choir, viola and percussion called Book of Doubt/Book of Faith, setting secular, feminist “psalms” by poet Claire Schwartz that are relevant to our time and connected to Jewish history. The concerts will also feature a diverse repertoire of music that amplifies the voices of all, including composers traditionally underrepresented in the classical music world.
Please consider donating to support the Cleveland Chamber Choir as we enter our seventh season.
November 6, 2021 - Members of the Cleveland Chamber Choir, under the direction of Corey Fowler, are pleased to appear at St. Ambrose with their program, "A Season of Thanksgiving." This program presents works that celebrate life and gratitude, as a way of marking the tribulations experienced by musicians and audiences over the last year. Featured composers include Kerry Andrew, Mark Butler, Betty Jackson King, and Gwyneth Walker.
December 11 & 12, 2021 - We will unveil a holiday program entitled "Carols Around the World" with music of thanksgiving as well as holiday selections from across the globe, and of course another Hannukah song commission by local composer Corey K. Rubin.
February 26 & 27, 2022 - We present “Cecilia and Her World.” These concerts will be a celebration of the wonderful choral music of award-winning British composer Cecilia McDowall. Besides several of her pieces, the concert will include music she considers influential in her own style. I am also ecstatic to announce that we have commissioned her to write a new piece for us to premiere! Additionally, several collegiate choirs will join us, all performing McDowall’s music.
June 11 & 12, 2022 - These concerts, entitled “World of Doubt, World of Faith,” appropriately close our season with music both questioning existence and demonstrating the resilience of the human race. Central to this program is Adam Roberts’ (Kent State University) multi-movement work for 16-part choir, viola and percussion called Book of Doubt/Book of Faith, setting secular, feminist “psalms” by poet Claire Schwartz that are relevant to our time and connected to Jewish history. The concerts will also feature a diverse repertoire of music that amplifies the voices of all, including composers traditionally underrepresented in the classical music world.
Please consider donating to support the Cleveland Chamber Choir as we enter our seventh season.
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Cleveland Chamber Choir strives to collaborate with other local artists to help feature and celebrate the amazing artistic talent of the Northeast Ohio region. In Season 3, CCC performed John Corigliano's beautiful setting of Dylan Thomas' poem Fern Hill with Bluewater Chamber Orchestra. We have partnered with local photographer Elisa Vietri to set the recording of the performance with images she has taken of our local landscapes.
Please enjoy this beautiful piece, conducted by CCC Artistic Director Scott MacPherson, and featuring mezzo soprano soloist Kira McGirr, recorded live at First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland in May 2018. Bill Marx, Sound Engineer Daniel Meyer, Artistic Director, BlueWater Chamber Orchestra Caroline Carlsmith, Cover Design |
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Cleveland Chamber Choir Awarded Top Prize at International Choir Festival
We are incredibly delighted and humbled to announce that the Cleveland Chamber Choir was awarded top prize at the World Youth and Children Choral Artists’ Association (WYCCAA) World Choir Festival. The “Choir of the World Award” was presented to the top performing group in an online festival that saw competition by almost 200 international choirs and adjudication by 50 international jury members. In addition to this wonderful award, our performance of Andrew Rindfleisch’s “I Sing To Use The Waiting” and Linda Kachelmeier’s “O Vos Omnes” also earned us the award for “Most Musically Moving Performance,” and Scott MacPherson was designated as an “Outstanding Conductor.”
In Season Six, CCC was proud to announce the release of our first album, I Sing to Use the Waiting: Live with the Cleveland Chamber Choir
Order your CDs through the CCC website
or download a digital version of the album here.
Thank you for your support!
A Vehicle for Good
The Cleveland Chamber Choir organization is a family of performing artists, administrators, audience members, and over 230 individual donors brought together in the philosophy that choral music is a vehicle for good in the world. Since its founding in 2015, CCC has donated more than $6,000 to help further the missions of:
We are proud to have partnered with some of our region’s finest organizations and schools over our first six seasons, including:
- Battered Women’s Shelter of Summit & Medina Counties
- Cleveland Clinic
- Cleveland Composers Guild
- Greater Cleveland Food Bank
- Kendal at Oberlin
- United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland
- VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System
- Women 4 Women Ohio
- YMCA of Greater Cleveland
We are proud to have partnered with some of our region’s finest organizations and schools over our first six seasons, including:
- BlueWater Chamber Orchestra
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Cleveland State University
- Kent State University
- Oberlin Choristers una voce musica
- Theodore Roosevelt High School ChoralWorks
- WCLV 104.9 Ideastream Public Media
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Cleveland Chamber Choir performs "God's Grandeur" from A.M.G.D. (Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam) by Benjamin Britten at our March 2018 "March Choral Madness" concert at First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland
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CCC's performance of Jonathan Quick's "Loch Lomond" at our September 2018 "Remembrance: War, Peace, and Comfort" concert at the Maltz Performing Arts Center
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The Cleveland Chamber Choir is an ensemble of professional singers from Northeast Ohio under the artistic direction of choral conductor Scott MacPherson. Committed to the Northeast Ohio region, the Cleveland Chamber Choir is dedicated to growing a diverse audience of choral music and presents concerts throughout Cleveland and its surrounding communities.
Email clevelandchamberchoir@gmail.com