Chamber Singers
The UVA Chamber Singers invite the UVa and Charlottesville communities to a performance at St. Paul’s Memorial Church on the Corner – Friday, November 11th, at 8:00 pm. The performance will feature Music for Sacred Service from the British Isles, including Byrd’s Mass for 5 voices, Purcell’s “Hear My Prayer, O Lord,” Britten’s Festival Te Deum, Handel’s Zadok the Priest, and Wood’s double choir Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis where the Chamber Singers will be joined by the St. Paul’s Choir and its director Daniel Hine. Also joining the performance will be organist Jeremy Thompson, well known to local audiences from his work at First Presbyterian Church and a recent performance with the Charlottesville Symphony. Tickets are available at the UVa Arts Box Office: www.artsboxoffice.virginia.edu or (434) 924-3376.
Additionally, the Chamber Singers will join the St. Paul Choir for Choral Evensong at St. Paul’s on Sunday, November 13th at 4 pm.
Founded in 2005 and conducted by Michael Slon, the University of Virginia Chamber Singers is a select ensemble drawn from the University Singers, and performs a wide variety of music for chamber choir ranging from early music to contemporary compositions. Recent performances have included Britten’s Hymn to St. Cecilia, Vivaldi’s Magnificat, Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, Copland’s In the Beginning, Allegri’s Miserere, Pärt’s Magnficat, Glass’s Three Songs, Burtner’s Palladian Echoes, a program of English and Italian madrigals, and Bach’s Mass in B minor with the University Singers. In addition, the group has performed popular standards by Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, and the Beatles, a spoof concert of P.D.Q. Bach, and new music by Meredith Monk (with the Meredith Monk Vocal Ensemble) and Eric Whitacre. In 2010, the Chamber Singers made their first appearances at the Staunton Music Festival, including a performance with Grammy-award winning baritone Kevin McMillan. In 2012, they participated in a workshop with Peter Phillips, director of the world famous Tallis Scholars, and have also collaborated with Three Notch’d Road, Charlottesville’s professional Baroque ensemble. In 2014, they were honored to perform for composer Philip Glass during his UVa Arts Board Residency, and in spring 2015 were heard on tour in Europe with the University Singers. 
Tickets for the concerts are $10 general/$5 students (UVa students may reserve a free ticket in advance), and are available at the UVa Arts Box Office in the Culbreth building, online at http://tickets.artsboxoffice.virginia.edu or by calling (434) 924-3376. Tickets will also be available at the church door. St. Paul’s Memorial Church is located at 1700 University Ave., Charlottesville, across from the Rotunda.
For more information visit us online:
www.music.virginia.edu/chamber-singers
www.music.virginia.edu/usingers