Chora Nova Auditions for All Voice Parts

Chora Nova is auditioning for all voice parts in late August!

Celebrating its Tenth Anniversary Season, sixty-voice Chora Nova has become an important part of the San Francisco Bay Area’s cultural fabric. Our singers come from all parts of the San Francisco Bay region and from all walks of life. This diverse group has grown in skill and quality under the leadership of Dr. Paul Flight, who has been our Artistic Director since its inception.

Based in Berkeley, California, Chora Nova is known as a chorus that presents innovative programs featuring a mix of well-known and unusual works. Programs such as Baroque masterpieces by Handel and Kuhnau, or the contemporary cantata St. Nicholas by Benjamin Britten are prime examples. In the 2012-2013 season we presented the rarely heard Mass in D Minor by Hummel. During our 2013-2014 season we performed Dvorak's Stabat Mater, a program of music from the British Isles, as well as choral works of Baroque composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. Our 2014-2015 season included Bruckner's Mass in E minor, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, and Handel's Acis and Galatea. In 2015-2016 we’ll perform Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass (November), and Die erste Walpurgisnacht of Mendelssohn (March). We’ll end the season with Carl Orff’s dramatic Carmina Burana in May.

Please go to http://www.choranova.org to learn more about us; then click on the "auditions" link if you'd like to join us. We rehearse Tuesday nights, in Berkeley.