Chanticleer

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Chanticleer (2014)

Chanticleer is a professional classical vocal ensemble from San Francisco .

The all-male ensemble is best known for its renaissance and early baroque a cappella music , but also regularly performs a wide repertoire of jazz , gospel and other modern and new music . The group is known as an "Orchestra of Voices". Chanticleer is named after the singing rooster in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales .

The choir was founded in 1978 by the tenor Louis Botto, who sang in it himself until 1989 and was the artistic director of the ensemble until his death in 1997. Botto noticed that the Renaissance music he studied as a musicologist was rarely performed; he therefore founded the choir in order to be able to perform this music authentically with an all-male ensemble.

Initially the group consisted of ten singers, later the cast varied between eight and twelve members. There is currently Chanticleer of twelve men, including two basses , one baritone , three tenors , and six countertenors (three in the Old - and three in the soprano - able ).

In 2000, Chanticleer won a Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance under Joseph Jennings for Colors of Love - Works of Thomas , Stucky , Tavener and Rands ; In 2003 they repeated this success with Tavener: Lamentations And Praises together with the Handel & Haydn Society of Boston .

Chanticleer made the Ave Maria by Franz Biebl widely known in the USA.

By October 2007, Chanticleer had released 29 CDs, most recently an album with Christmas music ( Let it Snow ). On this CD, the ensemble is accompanied by an orchestra or a big band for the first time on some of the pieces .

In November 2007, the season of its 30th anniversary, Chanticleer was named Musical America's 2008 Ensemble of the Year - the first time a vocal ensemble has received this award.

Current composition

  • Gerrod Pagenkopf (soprano), since 2016
  • Kory Reid (soprano; assistant music director)
  • Logan Shields (soprano), since 2016
  • Cortez Mitchell (old), since 2007
  • Alan Reinhardt (old), since 2006
  • Adam Ward (Alt)
  • Andrew Van Allsburg (tenor), since 2016
  • Brian Hinman (tenor; road manager), since 2006
  • Chris Albanese (tenor), since 2016
  • Matthew Knickman (baritone), since 2011
  • Marques Jerrell Ruff (bass-baritone), since 2013
  • Eric Alatorre (bass), since 1990
Status: August 2016

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  1. ↑ http://www.chanticleer.org/singers/

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