For aspiring conductors ready to move beyond the classroom. The Conducting Master Class offers focused podium time with a professional lab choir, direct feedback from Jeff Hunt, founder of the St. Charles Singers, and a space to sharpen your technique among peers, led by Jeff Hunt.
NEWS AND UPCOMING EVENTS
Welcome to our 2024-25 season!
Dear Friends of St. Charles Singers:
Exploring the vast array of choral music held within the beautiful fabric of this amazing art form is something I look forward to doing each year. The process centers around finding music that will hopefully be exciting, fun, and rewarding for both singers and audience, and yes, it can be a bit overwhelming.
Our music this year will honor the great traditions of the past by including the music of the early Renaissance—with the music of Johannes Ockeghem—through music of the Baroque period, Romantic period, and the 20th century. Our ensemble also seeks to serve living composers as well, so each concert will feature music that has been created in the 21st Century. You will hear music sung unaccompanied and music that will be accompanied by a colorful palette of instruments including viola, clarinet and piano, organ, and string ensemble. In the end, more than 35 composers’ works will be presented over the four-concert season, so there is certainly something for everyone.
If you end up coming to one concert or all four, I look forward to greeting you and thanking you for being a patron of the St. Charles Singers! I hope you enjoy the concerts.
With best wishes,
Jeff Hunt
Founder and Music Director
St. Charles Singers
Deb Stevenson named new executive director
Deb Stevenson has been named the new executive director of the St. Charles Singers. She brings more than three decades of experience as a musician and more than 20 years in arts management, musician contracting, and organizational leadership. With a genuine love for music and a deep respect for the arts, she is honored to support the ongoing success and mission of the St. Charles Singers.
I have been privileged to direct Jeff Hunt’s choir on a number of fondly-remembered occasions over the years, and it is like being allowed to drive someone else’s finely-tuned Rolls-Royce (or whatever is your favorite luxury car). They purr along effortlessly at high speed, negotiate the awkward corners with ease, make you feel like a better driver-and you don’t even have to fill them up with fuel.
—John Rutter
The Mission of St. Charles Singers
To perform, promote and preserve the finest choral music to inspire diverse audiences regionally, nationally and internationally.
St. Charles Singers does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations.
Thanks to our Sponsors and Grantors
St. Charles Singers performances are partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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