Our advanced SATB chorus focuses on continued refinement of vocal skills, including an expanded singing range and technical ability in service of phrasing, dynamic contrast, breath control, and language mastery. Touring choristers demonstrate a love of music as an expressive, artistic medium and life force.

Touring Choristers learn…

• To sing in three, four, or more parts

• Sight singing using moveable “do” for major keys, “la”-based for minor, and intervallic reading for non-tonal works or rapidly shifting tonalities

• All major key signatures, relative and parallel minors

• To read and count more complex rhythms in more complex meters

• Musical concepts as related to musical form and performance practice

• To demonstrate superior musical skills and professional standards of deportment

Repertoire

Touring Chorus music includes three, four, or more parts; non-tonal works; and new (commissioned) works.

Recent songs include:

• Prayer of the Children, Kurt Bestor

• Glow, Eric Whitacre

• Hamisha Asar, Flory Jagoda

• Tantum Ergo, Faure

Evaluations

At the end of each semester, each chorister will participate in a vocal and written evaluation. The purpose of these evaluations is twofold:

1. to inform artistic staff of what choristers have learned

2. to give choristers personalized feedback from artistic staff on their progress in a number of areas.

Performance Opportunities

• Anima Winter Concert (with Treble and Concert Choruses)

• Anima Spring Concert (with Treble and Concert Choruses)

• Special projects/collaborations with professional arts organizations (these opportunities vary by year; recent collaborations include performances with Music of the Baroque, the Grant Park Music Festival, and Joffrey Ballet)

• National or International Summer Tour