Performing Choirs
Applications for Performing Choirs
2024 NC ACDA Fall Conference
The North Carolina Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association (NC ACDA) is excited to welcome the following ensembles to perform at the 2024 Fall Conference, October 4-5 at Queens University in Charlotte, NC:
The University Chorale is the flagship choral ensemble of the UNC Charlotte music department. Consisting of both music majors and non-majors, the Chorale proudly serves as ambassadors of the music department and the University at-large, frequently performing in the greater Charlotte area and various locations throughout the southeastern region of the United States. The Chorale has historically participated in several prestigious performances both domestically and abroad, including Madrid, Spain for the 25th Anniversary Gala of the Gredos San Diego schools, and Venice, Italy, at the historic St. Mark’s Basilica. Along with performances of such masterworks as Schubert’s Mass in G, Haydn’s Missa Brevis (at the North Carolina Music Educators Annual Conference), Vaughan Williams’ Fantasy on Christmas Carols and In Windsor Forest, Vivaldi’s Gloria, the Chorale has also recently participated in several popular music oriented performances such as the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra’s production of Video Games Live, AMR Productions presentation of Distant Worlds: Music From Final Fantasy (2024) and also served as the background ensemble for the award-winning rock group The Eagles during their 2022 tour stop in Charlotte, and again in Greensboro in April 2023. Despite several years of transition, the Chorale has proven itself a resilient ensemble. And under the leadership of Director of Choral Activities, Dr. Jason A. Dungee, the choir has found renewed vigor to engage in the thriving North Carolina choral community. No evidence of this is greater than the honor they received of being invited to perform for the 2022 North Carolina State conference of the American Choral Directors Association (NCACDA) and being featured on program during the Charlotte Master Chorale’s presentation of R. Nathaniel Dett’s The Ordering of Moses and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms. Membership in the chorale is open to all Charlotte students and auditions are held twice per academic year (early Fall, late Spring). Much more information is available at coaa.charlotte.edu/music/ensembles/choirs or by calling the choral office at 704-687-0252.
Concert Choir is the flagship choral ensemble at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. The group, an auditioned ensemble of mixed voices representing majors from across the university, performs on campus several times a year, travels regionally every year, and internationally every few years. Recent performances of note include participation in a performance of Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem at L’Abbaye-aux-Hommes in Caen, France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day and an invited performance for the 17th Organ at Davidson Concert Series. Recent tours include visits to churches and schools across the state of North Carolina, to include performance and service leadership in Asheville, Charlotte, Raleigh, Wilmington, and Winston-Salem. Concert Choir is under the direction of Dr. Joshua Cheney, who has served as the Director of Choral Activities at Gardner-Webb University since 2020. Concert Choir collaborates in performance with Mr. Timothy Scruggs, a Staff Accompanist and University Organist at Gardner-Webb since 2003.
The Peak Choral Ensemble, directed by Sam Wanamaker and Heather Copley, was birthed out of an opportunity to collaborate with Apex Middle and High Schools. Like a lot of things in life, we quickly learned that we are better together. Since Covid, we have used this as a chance to build community and get to know our choral "cousins" across town. We do a performance in the fall with our middle school feeders with programs, go to "camp" for a weekend in February where we learn music and build community, we travel together for our spring trip (we have performed in Orlando, Charleston, and in March 2025, Ireland). The choice to collaborate annually has been one of the best decisions we have made for our programs. We hope that the joy and growth we have found in this collaboration inspires others to work with their choral neighbors. We really are better together.
North Carolina Choral Artists was founded in 2017 as a project-based choral ensemble with the goal of a single summer performance. Since then, NCCA has performed throughout Eastern NC. Our musicians are primarily based in North Carolina, with occasional guests from other parts of the country. Our organization exists to foster the choral arts at the highest possible level and grow the arts community in Eastern North Carolina and surrounding areas. With a primary focus on the music of living composers, NCCA aims to provide meaningful concert experiences for the community that showcase local musicians and composers who benefit from live performances of their work today. Through this vision, it is our hope that the choral arts will continue to grow in North Carolina and beyond.
Founded in 1995, the Mississippi Boychoir has been providing a life-changing musical, cultural, and developmental experience for the young men of our state for over 25 years. From the group’s beginnings in Columbus, Mississippi Boychoir now includes young men from Jackson, Vicksburg, Brookhaven, Hattiesburg, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.