Thank you for a wonderful season!

Our 2018-2019 concert season has ended, and it's been an exciting and rewarding experience! Thank you to those who attended concerts, participated in composition workshops, donated to C4, and of course, our fabulous ensemble members, who sing, conduct, compose, and do so much more for this collective. 

Come see C4 receive the 2019 Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming at the Chorus America Conference in Philadelphia on June 28, and stay tuned for more information on our upcoming season!

Ascension Service
St. John's in the Village

An octet from C4 helped St. John's in the Village Episcopal Church celebrate the Feast of the Ascension at their service on Wednesday, May 28, performing Bruce Saylor's Missa Constantiae and the world premiere of C4 composer Brian Mountford's new Gloria, written for the occasion.

2019 Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming

We are thrilled to announce that C4 has won the 2019 Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. This is the second time C4 has won this prestigious award, the first time being in 2014.

The Chorus America/ASCAP Adventurous Programming Awards recognize choruses that demonstrate a sustained commitment to adventurous programming through performances of choral music written in the last 25 years. 

Voices Up
An evening of music and poetry

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Photo by Harold Levine
Thank you to all who came to our April 30 concert. C4 partnered with the Poets Out Loud community of poetry at Fordham University for a concert of choral music with Fordham's Voices Up! concert series, featuring new works on texts from the winning poetry volumes of Poets Out Loud's annual international competition: Julia Bouwsma's Midden and Henk Rossouw's Xamissa. The evening concluded with a talkback discussion with the poets and composers on the program.
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Photo by Harold Levine

About C4

The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective is a unique ensemble of singers, composers and conductors, performing pieces written within the last 25 years, premiering and commissioning new choral works, and mentoring emerging singers, composers, and conductors of today's choral music.
In a city teeming with exceptional vocal ensembles of every kind, C4 is a standout, not just because of their fine programming and unique collaborative structure, but also for their consistently beautiful and balanced sound, excellent precision, warmth, and energy.
~ Lauren Alfano, I Care If You Listen
A highlight was Niimi’s Concerto for Chorus (Bios)...which was given a scintillating account by 18 singers in the ensemble C4, with Timothy Brown conducting...[T]his nine-minute a cappella work for mixed chorus featured much divisi writing and complex polyrhythms that Brown and the singers transformed into exhilarating vocal pyrotechnics.
~ John Fleming, Classical Voice North America
Their subtly attuned awareness of each others' musical movements makes their technical virtuosity seem near effortless.
~ Jean Ballard Terepka, Theatre Scene
They seem to revel in the challenges other choirs avoid like the plague. ... The group's dynamic is a lesson in exceeding expectations.
~ Christian Carey, Sequenza 21
(photos by Keith Goldstein unless otherwise noted)