Concert The male a cappella chorus Chanticleer World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera Theatre - Opera and Concert Hall
Schedule for The male a cappella chorus Chanticleer 2022
Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Based in San Francisco, California, Chanticleer is a full-time male classical
vocal ensemble in the United States. Over the last three decades, it has
developed a major reputation for its interpretations of Renaissance music, but
it also performs a wide repertoire of jazz, gospel, and other venturesome new
music and is widely known as an "Orchestra of Voices". It was named for the
"clear singing rooster" in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
Chanticleer was founded in 1978 by tenor Louis Botto, who sang with the group
until 1989, and served as Artistic Director until his death from AIDS in
1997.[1] As a graduate student of musicology, Botto found that much of the
medieval and Renaissance music he was studying was not being performed, and,
because of this, he formed the group to perform this music with an all-male
ensemble, as it was traditionally sung during the Renaissance.
Originally, the group contained ten singers, but its size has varied from
eight to twelve. Currently, Chanticleer comprises twelve men, including two
basses, one baritone, three tenors, and six countertenors (three altos and three
sopranos).
The original members included Jim Armington (tenor), Ted Bakkila (baritone),
Rob Bell (countertenor), Louis Botto (who sang alto as well as tenor), Sanford
Dole (tenor), Kevin Freeman (bass), Tim Gibler (bass), Tom Hart (baritone),
Jonathan Klein (baritone), Neal Rogers (tenor), Randall Wong (countertenor), and
Doug Wyatt (bass). However, only ten of the singers were available to go on
tour.
When the ensemble first became full-time in 1991, its members included Eric
Alatorre (bass, and currently the longest standing member), Frank Albinder
(baritone), Kevin Baum (tenor), Mark Daniel (tenor), Kenneth Fitch
(countertenor), Tim Gibler (bass), Jonathan Goodman (tenor), Joseph Jennings
(countertenor and Music Director), Chad Runyon (baritone), Foster Sommerlad
(countertenor), Matthew Thompson (tenor), and Philip Wilder (countertenor).
Schedule for The male a cappella chorus Chanticleer 2022
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