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Cycle 2 Concerts Cancelled
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Hello friends of C4!
Out of an abundance of caution due to coronavirus, C4 has decided to cancel both performances of Babel. This was a tough decision, as we've worked incredibly hard to prepare this awesome music for you. For those who have already purchased tickets, we will be in touch about issuing refunds. In love and collectivity, C4 |
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C4 performs at Queensborough Community College
C4 travelled to Queensborough Community College for a noontime performance for music students and community members. We performed some works from our latest concert cycle, a couple past favorites, and a new piece by QCC faculty member André Brégégère. To engage the students directly, we included a couple pieces with sections that we could teach to the audience. In this video, Daniel Andor-Ardó teaches the audience to sing along with the round melody in Brian Mountford's Lest We Be Scattered.
C4 performs in Alex Weiser's new opera, State of the Jews
C4 joined the cast of Alex Weiser's opera State of the Jews, which received its world premiere this December. The opera is a historical drama about Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the charismatic and controversial Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist whose writings ignited a mass political movement.
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.
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.
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)
