Choral Arts New England Awards Ceremony: November 3, 2024

Choral Arts New England will hold its 40th annual Awards Ceremony on Sunday, November 3, 2024, at 3:00pm at

United Parish in Brookline
15 Marion Street, Brookline, MA 02446

All are welcome to attend.

This year's ceremony will honor the recipients of the 2024 Alfred Nash Patterson Awards and will also honor Dr. Andre André De Quadros with the Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Acievement Award for exceptional contributions to the choral arts.

2024 Alfred Nash Patterson Grant Recipients

Choral Arts New England is delighted to announce the funding of 16 project grants totaling $29,000, which exceeds our previous highest award total of $25,000 in the 2023 cycle. Award recipients represent choral organizations across New England, including from Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts, and were chosen out of 48 applications.

Award recipients will be honored at our grant ceremony in the fall of 2024, and the projects are described below from excerpts of the applications. In addition, where a recipient received a named grant, is listed next to the recipient’s name.

Congratulations to all our awardees, and please stay tuned for our next application cycle to open for 2025!

Announcing: David Hoose Commissioning Grant

Choral Arts New England is excited to announce the opening of the application period for the first David Hoose Commissioning Grant. 

The David Hoose Commissioning Grant honors and continues David’s vision by supporting the commissioning of new choral music with instrumental accompaniment.  The grant is supported by a fund raised by dedicated donors from across the choral community who wish to perpetuate and grow his contributions to choral music.  Choral Arts New England is honored to award this grant.

Join the Choir!

This fall is a great time to join a singing community. Well-established choruses throughout New England are looking for new members and new choruses are springing up. Chorus Arts New England has some resources to help you find your group:

"Let us not lose sight of those who, as individuals or institutions, have helped us make music, who agree with us that music, especially choral music, may be the best evidence of eternal life, not in the heavenly sense, but in the awareness that when we sing, we bring music to life, and that same music brings life to others in return."
   — Richard Coffey, 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient