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Westminster Chamber Choir

Westminster Chamber Choir is a two-week program providing young professionals in the field of choral music an opportunity to perform and study the art of choral singing in the Westminster Choir College setting.  Spend two weeks living, singing, and studying in a professional-level mixed choral ensemble that brings together the highest level of choral and vocal artists to explore new works, as well as focusing on a cappella repertoire.  Singers also receive private conducting lessons. 

The Chamber Choir, under the direction of Joe Miller, performs a concert in Princeton.  The Chamber Choir also joins with the Choral Festival to perform in Richardson Auditorium on the campus of Princeton University. 

General Information
Westminster Chamber Choir is held from July 11 through July 23, 2010.  Course enrollment is limited to 28 students.  Participants must audition. 

Faculty

  • Joe Miller, Artistic Director/Conductor
  • Mitos Andaya, Conducting Fellow, University of Georgia
  • Dirk Garner, Conducting Fellow, Baldwin-Wallace College
  • Amanda Quist, Conducting Fellow, San Jose State University
  • Eugene Rogers, Conducting Fellow, Macalester College

Application and Audition Information
To apply for Westminster Chamber Choir, submit the following:
  • Completed application form: Application deadling is May 1, 2010.
  • CD Recording of a solo performance.  The CD should include:
    1.  Prepared Solo - The music should be from an aria from the Baroque period (ie Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Buxtehude) and may be taken from opera, oratario, or other choral works.

    2.  Range Test - The singer should begin in the middle of the range and vocalize scale to the top of their comfortable range.  This should be followed by the singer beginning in the middle of the range and vocalizing to the lowest note.

    3.  Prepared Choral Excerpt - Sing the final eleven measures of Poulenc's Timor et Tremor a cappella.  The excerpt should be sung in Latin with the quarter note equaling approximately 60. The applicants may sing either note of the divisi.  Download the excerpts here: 

          Poulenc 1
          Poulenc 2

 

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