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North Valley Chamber Chorale

David Scholz, Artistic Director

Information last updated: 2013-12-17
Status: Current

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Description:	An adult, volunteer, mixed voice, mid-sized, independently incorporated community chorus. "Members of the North Valley Chamber Chorale come from a wide range of professions and musical experiences. Although many of the singers are professional music teachers and/or performers, the membership also includes doctors and other health care professionals, accountants, teachers, business owners, retired individuals, and many other lines of work. Membership expands and contracts for each concert, depending on the outcome of auditions, availability of singers, and the performing forces needed for individual concerts." [from website 12/17/13]
Web Address:	http://www.northvalleychamberchorale.org
Year Estab:	2010
Mission:	"The NVCC is committed to providing its members and audience with a venue for choral music performances of the highest quality. The chorale also seeks to increase public awareness and appreciation of musical endeavors by sponsoring additional recitals and concerts, especially those focusing on the talents of regional musicians. The NVCC also strives to provide each member of the group with the opportunity to explore and expand his or her own individual talents, musicianship and associated performance skills. " [from website 12/17/13]
Size:	40
Concerts/Year:	3
Auditions:	Early August and early January. Use the Contact Us link on the home page to set up an audition time with the artistic director. Further info. on website.
Dress:	Tuxes for men; black formal attire for women.

Type of Music:	Classical	Type of Chorus:	Mixed Adult
Rehearse City:	Chico
Region:	Sacramento Valley North
Audition Req'd:	Y

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Phone:	530-588-5231
Email:	northvalleychamberchorale@gmail.com

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History:	" The North Valley Chamber Chorale was formed in the fall of 2010. Initial membership included 28 singers for our inaugural concert, Sing a New Song, on November 6, 2010 at Faith Lutheran Church. This concert featured a variety of choral pieces including Renaissance motets by Orlando di Lassus, Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, and Josquin des Prez, works by Georg Philipp Telemann and Giovanni Battista Martini, two of the Five English Folksongs of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and The Songs of the Prospector by Stephen Chatmann. The 2010-2011 concert season also included a recital titled Romantic Masterworks on Sunday, April 8, 2011 at St. John’s Episcopal Church, featuring local instrumentalists and singers performing the works of Brahms, Schubert, and Schumann, and a spring concert by the NVCC in the sanctuary of Bidwell Presbyterian Church featuring God is Gone Up by Gerald Finzi, Benjamin Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, and the Magnificat of Johann Sebastian Bach. Our second season began with Love, Death, and Revenge, a recital of opera arias and duets performed by Chico resident and tenor Vincent Chambers, soprano Carrie Hennessey, and pianist Robert Ashens on August 26, 2011 at Faith Lutheran Church. The NVCC presented its first concert, Shakespeare in Song, on Sunday, November 6, 2011 at First Baptist Church. This concert featured compositions that set the text of William Shakespeare, including In Windsor Forest and Serenade to Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Music to Hear by the jazz composer George Shearing, and Three from Shakespeare by David Dickau. On Sunday, March 18 at Faith Lutheran Church, a recital titled Mozart and More was presented by sopranos Daun Weiss and Dara Scholz, Russell Burnham and Cara Okano Herrick on piano, flautist Mary Alice Kolko, guitarist Warren Haskell, and violinist Matt Raley. Works by Mozart, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Matyas Seiber, Francis Poulenc, and Russell Burnham were performed. The 2011-2012 season concluded with a concert by the NVCC on Sunday, April 29 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church featuring Johann Sebastian Bach’s motet Jesu Meine Freude and the Missa Sancti Bernardi von Offida in B (commonly known as the Heiligmesse) by Franz Joseph Haydn. For the 2012-13 season the chorale presented its first annual Christmas concert, titled Welcome the Child: Christmas with the North Valley Chamber Chorale. This concert celebrating the season of Advent and Christmas was held at Bidwell Presbyterian Church on December 1 and 2, and included anthems, congregational carols, and readings by several local pastors of various denominations. The North Valley Chamber Singers, a group of 15 singers from the main chorale, participated in the Chico Bach Festival on March 16 with a performance of Giovanni Pergolesi’s psalm setting Confitebor tibi Domine. The season concluded on Saturday, May 18 with a concert titled From Darkness Into Light held at Evangelical Free Church of Chico. This concert included two cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach (Aus der Tiefen, BWV 131, and Komm, du süsse Todesstunde, BWV 161), Pergolesi’s Confitebor tibi Domine, several movements from Bach’s arrangement of the Pergolesi Stabat Mater, (Tilge, höchster, meine sünden, BWV 1083), and the Spatzenmesse of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, commonly known as the “Sparrow Mass.”" [from website 12/17/13]
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The North Valley Chamber Chorale was formed in the fall of 2010. Initial membership included 28 singers for our inaugural concert, Sing a New Song, on November 6, 2010 at Faith Lutheran Church. This concert featured a variety of choral pieces including Renaissance motets by Orlando di Lassus, Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, and Josquin des Prez, works by Georg Philipp Telemann and Giovanni Battista Martini, two of the Five English Folksongs of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and The Songs of the Prospector by Stephen Chatmann. The 2010-2011 concert season also included a recital titled Romantic Masterworks on Sunday, April 8, 2011 at St. John’s Episcopal Church, featuring local instrumentalists and singers performing the works of Brahms, Schubert, and Schumann, and a spring concert by the NVCC in the sanctuary of Bidwell Presbyterian Church featuring God is Gone Up by Gerald Finzi, Benjamin Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, and the Magnificat of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Our second season began with Love, Death, and Revenge, a recital of opera arias and duets performed by Chico resident and tenor Vincent Chambers, soprano Carrie Hennessey, and pianist Robert Ashens on August 26, 2011 at Faith Lutheran Church. The NVCC presented its first concert, Shakespeare in Song, on Sunday, November 6, 2011 at First Baptist Church. This concert featured compositions that set the text of William Shakespeare, including In Windsor Forest and Serenade to Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Music to Hear by the jazz composer George Shearing, and Three from Shakespeare by David Dickau. On Sunday, March 18 at Faith Lutheran Church, a recital titled Mozart and More was presented by sopranos Daun Weiss and Dara Scholz, Russell Burnham and Cara Okano Herrick on piano, flautist Mary Alice Kolko, guitarist Warren Haskell, and violinist Matt Raley. Works by Mozart, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Matyas Seiber, Francis Poulenc, and Russell Burnham were performed. The 2011-2012 season concluded with a concert by the NVCC on Sunday, April 29 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church featuring Johann Sebastian Bach’s motet Jesu Meine Freude and the Missa Sancti Bernardi von Offida in B (commonly known as the Heiligmesse) by Franz Joseph Haydn.

For the 2012-13 season the chorale presented its first annual Christmas concert, titled Welcome the Child: Christmas with the North Valley Chamber Chorale. This concert celebrating the season of Advent and Christmas was held at Bidwell Presbyterian Church on December 1 and 2, and included anthems, congregational carols, and readings by several local pastors of various denominations. The North Valley Chamber Singers, a group of 15 singers from the main chorale, participated in the Chico Bach Festival on March 16 with a performance of Giovanni Pergolesi’s psalm setting Confitebor tibi Domine. The season concluded on Saturday, May 18 with a concert titled From Darkness Into Light held at Evangelical Free Church of Chico. This concert included two cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach (Aus der Tiefen, BWV 131, and Komm, du süsse Todesstunde, BWV 161), Pergolesi’s Confitebor tibi Domine, several movements from Bach’s arrangement of the Pergolesi Stabat Mater, (Tilge, höchster, meine sünden, BWV 1083), and the Spatzenmesse of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, commonly known as the “Sparrow Mass.”" [from website 12/17/13]

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