We would like to extend a very special thanks to all those who helped us celebrate this past year by attending many of our events as we marked our 50th Anniversary! And we are especially grateful to those who attended our spring concert ~~ Spirit ~~ as we ended our special year of celebration.
We also wanted to let you know that we still have a few things going on during the summer months!
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Sing-In: Masterwork Sing with Gabriel Löfvall ~Haydn's Missa Brevis
in B-flat
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
7:00 - 9:30 pm
There is still time to register for this GNHCC workshop and work with one of Connecticut's finest conductors. Join noted maestro Gabriel Löfvall and fellow singers from Greater New Haven Community Chorus for an intensive sing-in experience focusing on Haydn's Missa Brevis in B-flat (Sancti Joannis de Deo).
As an Artistic Director, Gabriel Löfvall is a conductor, pianist, and tenor who grew up listening to the sounds of the tango in his native Argentina. Born in Mendoza, Argentina, Gabriel moved to the United States in 1997, and holds two Master of Music degrees from the Hartt School (University of Hartford) in piano performance under Luiz de Moura Castro, and in Choral Conducting, under Dr. Edward Bolkovac. He is presently a doctoral candidate there.
A member of several professional groups, including the Connecticut Choral Artists (CONCORA), Gabriel co-founded and co-directs Vallis Musicæ, a mixed chorale devoted to disseminating choral music.
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GNHCC to Participate in
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas
GNHCC has been invited to participate in The International Festival of Arts & Ideas -- a 15-day extravaganza of performing arts, lectures, and conversations that takes over theaters and open spaces in New Haven, Connecticut each June. This year's festival takes place from June 14 through June 28.
GNHCC will be featured on stage at the Yale Repertory Theater on Thursday, June 26 at 8:00 p.m. in a performance of David Greig's highly acclaimed play The Events. It will be the US premiere of a major new work about community, tolerance, and healing in the wake of trauma, with participation of choirs from our region. The Events tells a deeply powerful and relevant story about healing and community and has been declared "The Best Play yet to play in New York'' by The New York Times.
Tickets for The Events can be purchased online by clicking here, or by calling the Shubert Box Office at 203-562-5666.
More information about the play and David Greig, the award winning Scottish playwright and theater director can be found at our website.
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Claire (played with quiet anguish by Derbhle Crotty) is the liberal vicar of a small seaside community that has been shaken by a violent atrocity. Photo credit: David Levine.
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Derbhle Crotty (center) and choir. Photo credit: David Levine.
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GNHCC Chamber Choir to Perform at Bridgeport Bluefish Festival Game
The Ballpark at Harbor Yard
500 Main Street
Bridgeport, CT 06604
Sunday, June 29 ~ 1:05 pm
 The GNHCC Chamber Choir has been invited to perform the National Anthem to open the Bluefish baseball game on Sunday afternoon, June 29 at the Ballpark at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport.
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2014 GNHCC Quilt Winner Announced
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GNHCC Quilters with the 2014 Quilt
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The winner of the 2014 GNHCC quilt was drawn on Thursday evening, June 12 at the GNHCC year end party. This year's winner was Al Jackson of West Haven, CT -- husband of GNHCC tenor Rhonda Jackson. A very special thanks to all the dedicated GNHCC quilters for another beautiful job on this year's quilt! The group spends many months each year sewing and assembling beautiful homemade quilts that are raffled off at the end of our spring semester.
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Jessica Nix Selected as GNHCC Ronald D. Konetchy 2014 - 15 Choral Conducting Scholarship Recipient
Jessica Lola Nix, a Central Connecticut native has been selected as the GNHCC Ronald D. Konetchy 2014 - 15 Choral Conducting Scholarship Recipient. Ms. Nix is currently a Music Education Major at The Hartt School - University of Hartford, where she studies with Dr. John Feierabend and Dr. Vanessa Bond. A soprano, she currently sings with the Hartt Camerata and Hartt Choir, recently performing Christopher Theofanidis' The Here and Now and Mozart's Requiem.
She recently participated in a performance tour of Florence and Rome, Italy with the Hartt Tour Choir, and has also performed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and at The Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Jessica studies classical piano with Margreet Francis, classical voice with Sara O'Bryan, conducting with Dr. Edward Bolkovac and classical guitar with Christopher Ladd.
Jessica is the Treasurer for The Hartt Collegiate Chapter of the National Association for Music Education, of which she is also a member. She is also a member of the American Choral Director's Association, the Organization of American Kodaly Educators, as well as the Feierabend Association for Music Education.
Currently, Jessica is the Assistant Director and Accompanist for both choirs of the Waterbury Youth Chorus, and also maintains a private music studio in West Hartford, Connecticut.
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- Real Men Sing: A Choral Workshop for Male Singers, with Noah Blocker-Glynn
Tuesday, July 22
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Thursday, September 4, 2014 -- 7:15 pm
- Fall Concert ~ Save the Date
Saturday, December 13, 2014 -- 8:00 pm
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