C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective

Final Concerts of
20th Anniversary Season

Re-Imagine: C4's Future (2025 & Beyond)
Featuring world premieres by IGNITE Competition winners Courage Barda, Julio Morales and Max Vinetz!

Additional compositions by Jennifer Lucy Cook, Michael Dellaria, Andrew Hamilton, and world premieres by C4 composers Mario Gullo, Jamie Klenetsky Fay, Bryan Lin, Karen Siegel and George Wright.

Friday, June 19, 2026 - St. John's in the Village - 7:30pm
Saturday, June 20, 2026 - St. Luke in the Fields - 7:30pm

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C4 has recently been Funded in part by The Amphion Foundation, Inc.
www.amphionfoundation.org

Make choral music in a collaborative environment, hosted by C4! This summer we are hosting FOUR workshops!

-July 9th, 7-10pm (conducting)
(If you want to be a conducting participant at this workshop, sign up before June 15th!)

-July 16th, 7-10pm (composing)
(If you want to be a composition participant at this workshop, sign up before June 15th!)

- August 27th 7-10pm (singing and sightsinging)

- August 29th 10:30am - 2:30pm (composing)
If you want to be a composition participant at the Saturday workshop,
sign up before July 29th!

You can...

Conduct!
-sign up to work with a member of C4 to hone any conducting skills you'd like to work on (open to conductors of all levels!)
-sing for other conductors and provide feedback
-learn to conduct some cool new music

Compose!
-send us a score you'd like to have workshopped in a 30 minute rehearsal period
-work with a C4 composer to make sure you are getting the kind of feedback you need
-get feedback live from our volunteer choir
-meet other composers and sing their pieces

Sing!
-Sing as part of the lab choir that supports composer and conductor participants
-Learn some cool new music and meet other wonderful musicians

A note: C4 is committed to fostering the development of new and innovative choral music that push the boundaries of the art form and will prioritize applications with these goals in mind. Individuals of historically underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to sign up. Please note that even if your primary method of participation is as a conductor or composer, in alignment with C4's mission as a choral collective, all summer workshop participants will be expected to sing.

Email [email protected] if you have any questions!

Audition for C4

C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective holds regular auditions for all voice parts in Manhattan. The audition will consist of vocalizing for range and timbre, a prepared piece which will be e-mailed one week beforehand, rhythmic and melodic sight singing, and a blending exercise.

C4 is a semi-professional new music choir, directed and operated collectively by its singing members. It is both a presenting ensemble and a workshop chorus for the emerging composers and conductors at the core of the group. It is one of the few choral groups in the nation to focus exclusively on the music of our time, performing only music written in the last 25 years. The repertoire is challenging and requires members to have excellent musicianship skills and sight reading ability. Practice tracks are made available for both the audition and concert repertoire. Singers should have choral experience and a strong interest in contemporary music. C4 is looking for people of all ages, esp. college musicians and recent grads, and to further diversify the ensemble.

Rehearsals are on Thursday evenings from 7-10 PM. A small honorarium is paid to members.

If you are interested in setting up an audition slot, please email [email protected].
Visit c4ensemble.org/ and youtube.com/c/C4Ensemble/featured for more information about the group and performance samples.

c4net.work

The C4 Network is a loose federation of like-minded new music choruses around the country. We are proud to announce the launch of the Network's website, c4net.work. You can find out more about the Network and member choruses, but the most important feature is a database of new choral music performed by the member choruses and/or composed by members of the choruses. Searchable by mood, voicing, composer and more, we hope it can serve as a resource for choruses looking for new music to perform.

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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.

Rimbaud concert listed on Broadway World!

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

"All in all, this was one of the most enthralling operas I’ve ever seen. [Arthur Rimbaud: This Fugitive Soul] From the impressive skill of all the musicians to the intense logistics of the production, it was certainly a night to remember!"
~ Lili Tobias Oberon's Grove

"Arthur Rimbaud: This Fugitive Soul,...is one of the best things the group has ever done....The fact that you were able to agree upon some common harmonic materials from Steve’s [Gerber] cantata [Une Saison en Enfer], and, as I understand, a tone row supplied by Martha [Sullivan], enabled you to achieve a unified piece in a unified musical language that amplified Steve’s music and, I believe, enhanced its effect. It was as if Steve’s music had found its perfect context, like a gemstone placed in its ideal setting...Muir Ingliss was an excellent soloist...It was a great performance, an exciting new adventure, and a fascinating exploration of a new genre, the choral opera."
~ Hayes Biggs, composer