C4 Wins the 2019 Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming!

We are thrilled to announce that C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective 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

Picturephoto by Cheryl Aden
Tuesday, April 30 - 7:30pm
Fordham University Lincoln Center
113 West 60th Street
12th Floor Lounge
​(Corrigan Conference Center)
Manhattan
C4 is excited to be partnering with Poets Out Loud, a community of poetry at Fordham University at Lincoln Center, for a concert of choral music with Fordham's Voices Up! concert series. C4 composers Brian Mountford, Hilary Purrington, David See, and Bettina Sheppard have written new works on selected texts from the winning full-length poetry volumes of Poets Out Loud's annual international competition: Julia Bouwsma's Midden and Henk Rossouw's Xamissa. C4 will also premiere "Part Songs" by Lawrence Kramer, Fordham University professor and director of the Voices Up! series. Also on the program: works by Shavon Lloyd, Kala Pierson, and Karen Siegel.
Learn more about Julia Bouwsma's Midden​ and the tragedy of Malaga Island on our blog.
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The Loring Wallace family in 1900. Courtesy of Peter Roberts, in the Portland Press Herald.

CYCLE 3: C4 & WEST VILLAGE CHORALE

C4's 2018-2019 concludes on June 2 with a joint concert with the West Village Chorale.
Picturephoto by Cheryl Aden
Sunday, June 2 - 5:00pm
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
Manhattan

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)