Auditions

Auditions are open for Convivium Musicum. See the auditions page for more information.

December 2, 2023 (Saturday)

4:00 PM. Da Camera Singers [MA]: December in New England: 1673 – 2015. Music that would have been sung in New England from the late 1600s (material from the Bay Psalm Book, the first book published in the United States), including work by New England poets, through to the twenty-first century. With songs from the New England Singing schools (Billings, Lowell, Swan, Holyoke, and more), a female Shaker music composer, Edward MacDowell, and Amy Beach; music of Nathaniel Dett and Ulysses Kay, arrangements of carols by Alice Parker, arrangements by Robert DeCormier, and the Christmas Cantata by Daniel Pinkham. For more information, call 413-253-2589 or email dacamerasingersMA@gmail.com. Trinitarian Congregational Church, 147 Main Street, Northfield MA 01360 ⓘ 🔗

December 1, 2023 (Friday)

7:30 PM. Da Camera Singers [MA]: December in New England: 1673 – 2015. Music that would have been sung in New England from the late 1600s (material from the Bay Psalm Book, the first book published in the United States), including work by New England poets, through to the twenty-first century. With songs from the New England Singing schools (Billings, Lowell, Swan, Holyoke, and more), a female Shaker music composer, Edward MacDowell, and Amy Beach; music of Nathaniel Dett and Ulysses Kay, arrangements of carols by Alice Parker, arrangements by Robert DeCormier, and the Christmas Cantata by Daniel Pinkham. For more information, call 413-253-2589 or email dacamerasingersMA@gmail.com. Wesley United Church, 98 N. Maple Street, Hadley MA 01035 ⓘ 🔗

May 21, 2023 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Da Camera Singers [MA]: Considering Matthew Shepard. For more information, call 413-253-2589 or email dacamerasingersMA@gmail.com. Greenfield High School Auditorium, 1 Lenox Avenue, Greenfield MA 01301 ⓘ 🔗

December 18, 2022 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Da Camera Singers [MA]: Mystical Moments. Music from Christian, Islamic and Judaic traditions by Hildegard, Alfonso X, Dufay, Josquin, Byrd, Rossi, Pärt, Rahman, and Tavener. Ronald Smith, percussioan. For more information, call 413-253-2589 or email dacamerasingersMA@gmail.com. Sts. James and Andrew Episcopal Church, 8 Church St, Greenfield MA 01301 ⓘ 🔗

December 16, 2022 (Friday)

7:30 PM. Da Camera Singers [MA]: Mystical Moments. Music from Christian, Islamic and Judaic traditions by Hildegard, Alfonso X, Dufay, Josquin, Byrd, Rossi, Pärt, Rahman, and Tavener. Ronald Smith, percussioan. For more information, call 413-253-2589 or email dacamerasingersMA@gmail.com. Grace Episcopal Church, 14 Boltwood Ave, Amherst MA 01002 ⓘ 🔗

January 20, 2020 (Monday)

3:00 PM. Da Camera Singers [MA]: Come to the Woods! Music of Gwyneth Walker, Jake Runestad, Ronald Perea, Antonin Dvorak, and Paul Hindemuth to texts about nature by John Muir, Wendewll Berry, Robert Frost and Rainer Maria Rilke. Proceeds benefit the Kestrel Land Trust. For more information, call 413-253-2589 or email dacamerasingersMA@gmail.com. Memorial Chapel, Northfield Mount Hermon School, One Lamplighter Way, Gill MA 01354 ⓘ 🔗

January 17, 2020 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Da Camera Singers [MA]: Come to the Woods! Music of Gwyneth Walker, Jake Runestad, Ronald Perea, Antonin Dvorak, and Paul Hindemuth to texts about nature by John Muir, Wendewll Berry, Robert Frost and Rainer Maria Rilke. Proceeds benefit the Kestrel Land Trust. For more information, call 413-253-2589 or email dacamerasingersMA@gmail.com. Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, 53 College Street, Amherst MA 01002 ⓘ 🔗

June 2, 2019 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Da Camera Singers [MA]: Dissident Voices. Celebrating voices that have expressed dissent through their historical actions, their poetry, or their musical compositions. Music of Ethyl Smyth, Margaret Bonds, Leonard Bernstein, William Albright, and Francisco J. Núñez. The repertoire includes settings of the poetry of Langston Hughes and Eric Gamalinda. Holyoke poet Anika Nailah will present her own spoken poetry and be our narrator for Bernstein’s “The Lark.” Pianist Nancy Babb will perform settings of spirituals by Bonds. For more information, call 413-253-2589 or email dacamerasingersMA@gmail.com. Episcopal Church of Saints James and Andrew, 8 Church St, Greenfield MA 01301 ⓘ 🔗

May 31, 2019 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Da Camera Singers [MA]: Dissident Voices. Celebrating voices that have expressed dissent through their historical actions, their poetry, or their musical compositions. Music of Ethyl Smyth, Margaret Bonds, Leonard Bernstein, William Albright, and Francisco J. Núñez. The repertoire includes settings of the poetry of Langston Hughes and Eric Gamalinda. Holyoke poet Anika Nailah will present her own spoken poetry and be our narrator for Bernstein’s “The Lark.” Pianist Nancy Babb will perform settings of spirituals by Bonds. For more information, call 413-253-2589 or email dacamerasingersMA@gmail.com. Helen Hills Hills Chapel, Smith College, 123 Elm St, Northampton MA 01063 ⓘ 🔗

January 18, 2019 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Da Camera Singers [MA]: Then and Now. Medieval and Early Renaissance pieces with three newly minted commissions. The “Then” portion include Clement Janequin: Le Chant Des Oiseaux. The “Now” portion highlights works in Da Camera’s Young Composers Project. Young composers from the New England region have submitted short choral pieces, three of which will be chosen for performance. The young composers will workshop with Da Camera and mentor with established local composers to refine their pieces. For more information, call 413-253-2589 or email dacamerasingersMA@gmail.com. Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College, 53 College St, Amherst MA 01002 ⓘ 🔗

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