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ANDREW BROWN, PRESIDENT & CEO
ANDREW@PACIFICCHORALE.ORG
RYAN MCSWEENEY, DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & BOX OFFICE
RYAN@PACIFICCHORALE.ORG
714/662-2345
PACIFIC CHORALE TO RECEIVE $10,000 GRANT FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
Choral concert in the 2021-22 season to feature pairing of works by Caroline Shaw and Dietrich Buxtehude.
Costa Mesa, CA – On February 4, 2021, the National Endowment for the Arts announced that Pacific Chorale has been approved for a $10,000 Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) award to support a choral performance project and related educational activities. The Chorale will perform a program featuring works such as Caroline Shaw’s To the Hands and Dietrich Buxtehude’s Ad Manus, to be performed by 24 singers and string quartet.
Pacific Chorale’s project is among 1,073 grants across America totaling near $25 million that were selected during this first round of fiscal year 2021 funding in the Grants for Arts Projects funding category.
“The National Endowment for the Arts Works is proud to support this project from Pacific Chorale,” said Arts Endowment Acting Chairman Ann Eilers. “Pacific Chorale is among the arts organizations across the country that have demonstrated creativity, excellence, and resilience during this very challenging year.”
“At this time when the arts around the nation are facing enormous challenges, we could not be more grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts for supporting our community by investing in organizations like Pacific Chorale,” said Andrew Brown, President of Pacific Chorale. “This vital grant helps us continue to fulfill our mission of inspiring the people of Orange County through artistry in choral performances.”
For more information on projects included in the Arts Endowment grant announcement, visit arts.gov/news.
ABOUT PACIFIC CHORALE
Pacific Chorale has delighted national and international audiences with concerts of great choral music performed at the highest musical standards since 1968. Under the artistic leadership of Robert Istad, the organization produces a series of concerts each year at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, where it serves as the sole resident choir. The mission of Pacific Chorale is to inspire our community through artistry and innovation in choral music performances and education programs.
Pacific Chorale is recognized for exceptional artistic expression, preserving and performing classical choral music as well as stimulating American-focused programming. Pacific Chorale presents a substantial performance season of its own and is sought regularly to perform with the nation’s leading symphonies. Pacific Chorale has infused an Old World art form with California’s hallmark innovation and cultural independence, developing innovative new concepts in programming, and expanding the traditional concepts of choral repertoire and performance. The organization boasts over 30 world premieres and has released 14 self-produced recordings.
In addition to its long-standing partnership with Pacific Symphony, with whom Pacific Chorale made its Carnegie Hall debut in April 2018, the Chorale has performed with such renowned American ensembles as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the National Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and Musica Angelica.
Pacific Chorale has also toured extensively to more than 19 countries in Europe, South America and Asia, and has collaborated with the London Symphony, the Munich Symphony, L’Orchestre Lamoureux and L’Orchestre de St-Louis-en-l’Île of Paris, the National Orchestra of Belgium, the China National Symphony, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, the Estonian National Symphony, and the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional of Argentina.
Pacific Chorale also places a significant emphasis on choral music education, offering grades 1-6 after-school programs, a high school student summer camp, and a community-wide singing event at Segerstrom Center for the Arts.
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All Things Common has been garnering strong reviews since its release, culminating in the announcement that the prestigious audiophile outlet Native DSD Music has named it one of their Top 10 Albums of the Year for 2020!
“What’s unexpected from these contemporary choral works is composer Tarik O’Regan’s music, which is modern, but accessible and beautiful. The Pacific Chorale and musicians from the Salastina Music Society. This is amazing music, beautifully recorded.”
– Bill Dodd
“Any new release from Yarlung Records is noteworthy, more so when the release is a complete program of music by one of the world’s most highly regarded choral composers. Tarik O’Regan relocated from Great Britain to the San Francisco area where he’s now composer-in-residence for Pacific Chorale. O’Regan’s style is immediately engaging, largely tonal with minimalistic elements and occasional aleatoric techniques. All Things Common programs seven works written between 2001 and 2019, the most recent, Facing West, a Pacific Chorale commission.”
– Andrew Quint, The Absolute Sound
“A consistently interesting program and beautiful singing make this one of the strongest American choral releases of 2020.”
– James Manheim, AllMusic (Full Review)
“The Pacific Chorale […] offers the latest works by Tarik O’Regan on CD. The fluent and sumptuous recording is worth a listen.”
– Timothy Mangan, contributing writer for Arts & Culture at Voice of OC (Full Review)
“Transparent, crystal and pure piece of work. The choir’s mastery is unsurpassed in its clarity and vocal technique. Beautiful music.”
–Dimitar Kovachev
“The sum total of this inclusive O’Regan program is a significant mix of choral gems spanning the millennium to now. Each work stands out on its own and ultimately Istad and the Pacific Chorale paint a beautifully full picture of the composer and his lucid beauty of idea and form. I’ve listened countless times and each hearing opens out new vistas, so I have no doubt on this one. Enthusiastically recommended.”
– Grego Applegate Edwards (Full Review)
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Critical Praise All Things Common has been garnering strong reviews since its release, culminating in the announcement that the prestigious audiophile outlet Native DSD Music has named it one of their Top 10 Albums of the Year for 2020! “What’s unexpected from these contemporary choral works is composer Tarik O’Regan’s music, which is
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