Now Singing

09.27.12 Klett Performing Arts Center, Georgetown, TX
09.28.12 and 09.29.12 St. Martin’s Lutheran Church, Austin, TX
09.30.12 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Austin, TX

Season opener features audience favorites from past years — spirituals, popular songs, and classical works — plus the world premiere of To Touch the Sky (Nine Songs for Unaccompanied Chorus on Texts by Women) by 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winner Kevin Puts, an a cappella work featuring writings from ancient to modern, commissioned for Conspirare by American Composers Forum.

12.06.12 Victoria, TX
12.07.12 Laurel Heights United Methodist Church, San Antonio, TX
12.08.12 and 12.09.12 The Carillon on Exposition, Austin, TX
12.10.12 Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin, TX

Conspirare’s signature holiday concert features Craig Hella Johnson’s renowned collage-style programming that weaves all kinds of music and poetry into an intensely meaningful whole. Featuring artists Kathlene Ritch and Charles Wesley Evans.

01.31.13 St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Fredericksburg, TX
02.01.13 to 02.03.13 St. Martin’s Lutheran Church, Austin, TX

Vibrant works by the great Romantic composers Sergei Rachmaninov and Alexander Grechaninov, prolific choral writer Pavel Chesnokov, and more. Rich, powerful music from the Russian choral tradition, deeply evocative of its nation’s soul.

04.27.13 and 04.28.13 ND at 501 Studios, Austin, TX

Passionate and powerful young Austin slam poets Lacey Roop, Kevin Burke, and Danny Strack join Craig Hella Johnson and six Conspirare singers to improvise, riff, and interweave musical magic with the spoken word. An innovative evening of choral music re-defined.

05.31.13 St. John Neumann Catholic Church, Austin, TX
06.01.13 Victoria, TX

Conspirare and the Victoria Bach Festival string orchestra reprise Robert Kyr’s Songs of the Soul, commissioned by Conspirare and hailed by The Wall Street Journal as “a powerful new achievement in American music.” Also featuring the world premiere of a new Kyr work, The Cloud of Unknowing, commissioned by Conspirare and based on texts from an eponymous 14th-century spiritual guidebook.

06.08.13 Victoria Fine Arts Center, Victoria, TX
06.09.13 Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin, TX

Craig Hella Johnson conducts Conspirare Symphonic Choir, Conspirare, Texas State University singers, and the Victoria Bach Festival Orchestra and Chorus in Beethoven’s monumental masterwork — the 20th season’s grand finale. With soloists soprano Mary Wilson, mezzo-soprano Emily Lodine, tenor Dann Coakwell, and bass Kevin Deas.

THIS JOY
12.14.12 and 12.15.12 St. Martin’s Lutheran Church, Austin, TX
The acclaimed Conspirare Youth Choirs’ popular holiday concert will include seasonal works by Bob Chilcott, Eleanor Daley, Franz Gruber, and Edward Henderson. Featuring Derek Holman’s Sir Christemas, with piano, harp, full percussion, cello, and flute accompaniment.

AMERICAN GLORY
05.03.13 and 05.04.13 St. Martin’s Lutheran Church, Austin, TX

The Conspirare Youth Choirs’ spring concert will explore our homeland’s rich tapestry of vocal music: traditional spirituals, folk music from the Appalachians to Hawaii, and Jazz standards.

POLYFOLLIA FESTIVAL AND PARIS PERFORMANCE
10.30.12 to 11.04.12 St. Lô, Lower Normandy, France
11.06.12 Église Saint-Louis-en-l’Île, Paris, France

Conspirare travels to France as one of twelve invited vocal ensembles from around the world for a week-long appearance at the biennial Polyfollia Festival. Six festival performances in Saint-Lô with a final concert in Paris. Showcasing American music from the “Signature Conspirare” program plus several French selections. Polyfollia site, Conspirare page

HOLIDAY GALA
12.10.12 Kodosky Donor Lounge, Long Center for the Performing Arts, Austin, TX

An enchanted evening: dinner before the final performance of “Conspirare Christmas,” plus a champagne and dessert after-party with the artists.

WONDERNIGHT
03.02.13 Topfer Theatre at ZACH, Austin, TX

A unique and exciting evening to celebrate Conspirare’s 20th anniversary! Music (including a world premiere or two by Craig Hella Johnson), dinner, wines, and auction. Proceeds benefit Conspirare’s world-class performances, recordings, and educational programs.

BIG SING
09.06.12 Topfer Theatre at ZACH, Austin, TX
12.18.12 St. Martin’s Lutheran Church, Austin, TX
05.16.13 Northwest Hills United Methodist Church, Austin, TX

Conspirare’s free community event where the audience is the choir! A special Big Sing in September kicks off the 20th anniversary season with music, cake, and a sneak peek at ZACH’s new Topfer Theatre. In December, participants will sing holiday favorites.