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Choral Arts New England extends the mission of the Alfred Nash Patterson (ANP) Foundation, providing grants that support innovative programming, commissions, and improved management for choral organizations. Alfred Nash Patterson Grants have been awarded continuously since 1985. In 1994, Choral Arts New England initiated a Lifetime Achievement Award to honor significant contributions to choral singing and its culture within New England.

Applications sought for 2009–2010 Alfred Nash Patterson Grants

New England choruses and other organizations are invited to apply for Alfred Nash Patterson grants to support projects that advance the choral arts in New England during the 2009–2010 performance season. Application forms and instructions are now available for downloading. The four-page application must be filed, together with a budget statement and a sample recording, by the deadline of February 28, 2009. The typical grant size is between $1,000 and $2,000. Applicants must be government-recognized nonprofit organizations.

David Hoose receives Lifetime Achievement Award at Annual Awards Ceremony

The 24th annual Alfred Nash Patterson awards ceremony was held on October 19, 2008 at All Saints Parish in Brookline, MA. At the ceremony, Cantata Singers Director David Hoose was presented with the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to choral music in New England. In addition, ten New England choruses were awarded grants totaling a record sum of $17,600.

This year’s Alfred Nash Patterson Grant recipients are from four New England states: five choruses from Massachusetts, two each from Connecticut and Rhode Island, and one from New Hampshire. Funded projects include two new choral compositions, by William Bolcom and Lewis Spratlan, and one world premiere, that of Dominick Argento’s Jonah and the Whale. Two grants support the performance of important but rarely heard choral works: the Romancero Gitano by Mario Castelnuevo-Tedesco and Charles-Francois Gounod’s Messe Solemnelle se Sainte Cecile; another supports a performance focusing on the late choral works of Franz Schubert; and a grant supports a tribute by Emmanuel Music to their late Music Director Craig Smith, recipient last year of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award. Other funded projects include a mentorship program that allows professionally trained singers to work with members of an established volunteer chorus, and the establishment by a successful children’s chorus of a junior choir for children in grades 3–5.

David Hoose, 2008 recipient of the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award, has been Music Director of the Cantata Singers & Ensemble since 1982. Under his leadership, the ensemble has commissioned significant works for chorus and orchestra by John Harbison, Donald Sur, Peter Child, Andy Vores, Andrew Imbrie, T.J. Anderson and James Primosch, and has greatly broadened its repertoire to embrace large works of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, as well the music that formed the roots of the organization—Bach and Schütz. Mr. Hoose is also Music Director of Collage New Music and is Professor of Music and Director of Orchestral Activities at the Boston University School of Music.

The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented annually by Choral Arts New England to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to choral singing and its culture within New England. Previous recipients are Craig Smith, Robert de Cormier, Donald Teeters, Alice Parker, John Bavicchi, Roberta Humez, Mary Whitney Rowe, Blanche Moyse, George Kent, Allen Lannom, Florence Dunn, Daniel Pinkham, Lorna Cooke DeVaron, and Elliot Forbes.

The 2008 recipients of Alfred Nash Patterson Grants are Amare Cantare, Durham, NH; Cappella Clausura, Newtonville, MA; Chorus of Westerly, Westerly, RI; Da Camera Singers, Amherst, MA; Emmanuel Music, Boston, MA; The Main Street Singers, New Britain, CT; The Master Singers, Lexington, MA; New Haven Oratorio Choir, New Haven, CT; The Providence Singers, Providence, RI; and The Spectrum Singers, Cambridge, MA.

The Chorus Directory has been updated! The new directory was launched on October 24, 2006, and changes are now being made continuously as new information reaches us. Thank you for sending in your additions and corrections. The new directory is more flexible, in that it can be listed several different ways; it can display more information about choruses; and it can be more rapidly updated. Updates can now be made in a day or two. Please keep in touch!

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