Auditions

Auditions are open for Assabet Valley Mastersingers. See the auditions page for more information.

March 29, 2025 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: Unseen Hearts: giving voice to feeling. A music experience of syncing of heartbeats and the power of music performance to give voice to feeling. With string quartet. For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. St. Peter's Church, 30 Church Street, Hebron CT 06248 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

December 14, 2024 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: Candlelight Concinnity: illuminating the holidays. An evening of luminescent sound and atmosphere to help celebrate and reflect during the holiday season… together For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. Emanuel Lutheran Church, 60 Church Street, Manchester CT 06040 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

November 2, 2024 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: Thinning of the Veil. Works by William Byrd, Caroline Shaw, Florence Price, Eric Whitacre, Ethel Smyth, the Beatles, and others. With Ekklesia Contemporary Ballet. During this time of the year, many cultures believe the veil between the living and the dead is thin (commemorations such as Halloween, Samhain, Dia de los Muertos, and All Souls Day). This concert that explores stories and harmonies that allow space to process loss, feel comfort, and find connection. Tickets: $20, free for students. For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. United Congregational Church Of Tolland, 45 Tolland Green, Tolland CT 06084 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

April 6, 2024 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: Concert: Mirrored. Maria Rosa Coccia: Dixit; Marianna Martines: Miserere; Joseph Haydn “Little Organ” Mass; Arvo Pärt: Beatitudes. With organ. Admission: $20, free for students. For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. St. Mark's Chapel, 42 N Eagleville Road, Storrs CT 06268 Online ⓘ 🔗

December 9, 2023 (Saturday)

5:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: Candlelight Concert. A holiday concert experience featuring songs to bring light and peace composed by Judith Weir, Ola Gjeilo, Eleanor Daley, Reena Esmail, and many more, including the premiere of a new arrangement by Gregory Brown. Options for the audience to sing with Concinnity will be interspersed throughout. Admission is free, but donations are welcome for Hands on Hartford, a social service nonprofit organization that serves Hartford’s most economically challenged residents in the areas of food, housing, and health.  For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. Asylum Hill Congregational Church, 814 Asylum Avenue, Hartford CT 06105 ⓘ 🔗

October 13, 2023 (Friday)

7:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: Hearth: on finding home. Music by Eric Whitacre, Billie Ellish, Susan LaBarr, B.E. Boykin, Nico Gutierrez, and a premiere of a new work by Brian Jones. Proceeds will benefit F.O.S.T.E.R. Independence Foundation, a 501(c)3 organization that helps Connecticut “independent students” (students experiencing family estrangement, housing insecurity, or foster care) to successfully graduate from college. Tickets: $10 (students free). For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. Storrs Congregational Church, 2 N. Eagleville Road, Storrs CT 06250 ⓘ 🔗

April 29, 2023 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: When music allows us to feel moved. Why does music move us to tears or give us chills? Concinnity will take the audience on an exploration of how music affects us by performing cathedral choral classics, jazz, folk, sacred harp, spirituals, and contemporary choral works by living composers. Music by Imogen Holst, Edie Hill, Moses Hogan, Anton Bruckner, Karen Siegel, Kerensa Briggs, William Harris, and more. Tickets $10 (students free). For more information, call 860-230-1097 or email consonare.sing@gmail.com. St. Bernard Church, 25 St. Bernard's Terrace, Vernon CT 06066 ⓘ 🔗

December 4, 2022 (Sunday)

5:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: Concinnity by Candlelight Holiday Concert. A candlelit concert featuring holiday music by Reena Ismail, Herbert Howells, Melissa Dunphy, Benjamin Britten, Ellen Voth, Eleanor Daley, Tamsin Jones, and more. Some selections will be sung with the audience. Tickets: $20 suggested donation, students free. For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 30 Church Street, Hebron CT 06248 ⓘ 🔗

December 3, 2022 (Saturday)

5:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: Concinnity by Candlelight Holiday Concert. A candlelit concert featuring holiday music by Reena Ismail, Herbert Howells, Melissa Dunphy, Benjamin Britten, Ellen Voth, Eleanor Daley, Tamsin Jones, and more. Some selections will be sung with the audience. Tickets: $20 suggested donation, students free. For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. Trinity Episcopal Church, 120 Sigourney Street, Hartford CT 06105 ⓘ 🔗

October 21, 2022 (Friday)

7:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: Moved: songs to bring chills. Herbert Howells: Requiem; Gregorio Allegri: Miserere mei, Deus; and other works to explore how music brings chills, thrills, and tears that leaves the audience moved, inspired... changed. This exploration will include an interactive component for those interested in delving into this phenomenon or simply an evening of surrounding yourself with beautifully blended voices singing moving choral music. Admission: $15 (students/children free). For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. Storrs Congregational Church, 2 N. Eagleville Road, Storrs CT 06250 ⓘ 🔗

April 9, 2022 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: Celestial Choral Concert: Stars are for all who look up. Celestial projections accompany reflective and thought-provoking choral music about the night sky in the Charter Oak Cultural Center inside performance space, including works by Erik Esenvalds, Laura Mvula, Saunder Choi, Fanny Hensel, Marques L.A. Garrett, Claudio Monteverdi, and more. With Unitus Ensemble. Admission: $15. Did you know that not everyone has access to viewing the night sky? A pre-concert virtual panel discussion exploring the equity of accessing the night sky will take place on March 31st over Zoom, hosted by Charter Oak Cultural Center. See our website for details. For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford CT 06106 ⓘ 🔗

December 5, 2021 (Sunday)

5:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: Concinnity by Candlelight. A beautiful collection of contemplative holiday choral favorites, concluding with an audience carol sing of Voices of Concinnity of songs chosen beforehand by our audience. Program includes “Love came down at Christmas” by Eleanor Daley, “In the bleak midwinter” by Gustav Holst, “Halcyon Days” by Melissa Dunphy, “In Bethlehem Above” by Yshanni Perinpanayagam, “The Waiting Sky” by Oliver Tarney, “Hymn to the Virgin” by Benjamin Britten, “Gabriel’s Message” arr. by Jim Clements, and more. Tickets: $20 suggested donation; advance reservation encouraged! For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 30 Church Street, Hebron CT 06248 ⓘ 🔗

December 4, 2021 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: Concinnity by Candlelight. A beautiful collection of contemplative holiday choral favorites, concluding with an audience carol sing of Voices of Concinnity of songs chosen beforehand by our audience. Program includes “Love came down at Christmas” by Eleanor Daley, “In the bleak midwinter” by Gustav Holst, “Halcyon Days” by Melissa Dunphy, “In Bethlehem Above” by Yshanni Perinpanayagam, “The Waiting Sky” by Oliver Tarney, “Hymn to the Virgin” by Benjamin Britten, “Gabriel’s Message” arr. by Jim Clements, and more. Tickets: $20 suggested donation; advance reservation encouraged! For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. Saint Ann's Church, 82 Shore Road, Old Lyme CT 06371 ⓘ 🔗

November 14, 2021 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Choir Matrix/Voices of Concinnity [CT]: Claiming Space: Songs Composed under Constraints. Songs by Isabella Leonarda, Barbara Strozzi, Clara Schumann, Kathleen Allan, and more, including the live premiere of a composition by Melissa Dunphy. Concert included in museum admission. For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. New Britain Museum of American Art, 56 Lexington St, New Britain CT 06052 ⓘⓘ 🔗

October 24, 2021 (Sunday)

7:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: October Sky: Songs of Comfort and Hope. songs of harvest, hope, and singing by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Undine Smith Moore, Sander Choi, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frank Ticheli and more. In-person and live-stream options. Proof of vaccination, masking, and social distance will be required in order to attend in-person due to a Town of Mansfield mask mandate. Singers will be masked as well. Tickets must be reserved in advance. For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. Storrs Congregational Church, 2 N. Eagleville Road, Storrs CT 06250 ⓘ 🔗

July 10, 2021 (Saturday)

2:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: From Silence to Song at the Wadsworth. A live concert outdoors "in plein air" of part-songs and madrigals from Elaine Hagenberg, Vittoria Aleotti, Claude Debussy, Reena Esmail, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Cheryl Engelhardt, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and more on themes of love, singing, nature, and the promise of spring. For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum (Gengras Court), 600 Main St, Hartford CT 06103 ⓘ 🔗

June 26, 2021 (Saturday)

5:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: From Silence to Song: Summer Sing! A live concert outdoors "in plein air" of part-songs and madrigals from Elaine Hagenberg, Vittoria Aleotti, Claude Debussy, Reena Esmail, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Cheryl Engelhardt, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and more on themes of love, singing, nature, and the promise of spring. The audience is invited to sing with us! For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. Downtown Storrs (Plein Air Trail), Storrs CT 06268 ⓘ 🔗

June 21, 2021 (Monday)

6:30 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: From Silence to Song at the Hill-Stead Museum Porch. A live concert outdoors "in plein air" of part-songs and madrigals from Elaine Hagenberg, Vittoria Aleotti, Claude Debussy, Reena Esmail, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Cheryl Engelhardt, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and more on themes of love, singing, nature, and the promise of spring. For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. Hill-stead Museum, 35 Mountain Rd, Farmington CT 06032 ⓘ 🔗

June 6, 2021 (Sunday)

1:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: From Silence to Song: A live concert outdoors "in plein air" of part-songs and madrigals from Elaine Hagenberg, Vittoria Aleotti, Claude Debussy, Reena Esmail, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Cheryl Engelhardt, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and more on themes of love, singing, nature, and the promise of spring. For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. Florence Griswold Museum, the Artists' Trail, 96 Lyme St, Old Lyme CT 06371 ⓘ 🔗

February 23, 2020 (Sunday)

5:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: Choral Evensong with Voices of Concinnity. Choral settings by Richard Ayleward (1626-1669) and Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901), framed by organ music by Henry Walford Davies and Louis Vierne. Sarah Kaufold, director; Scott Lamlein, organ. The ancient and beautiful service of Choral Evensong at St John’s Episcopal Church is presented on the fourth Sunday of selected months at St. John’s, with choral music presented by the choirs of St. John's or by guest choirs from across the region. The service, to which all are welcome, lasts 35-45 minutes. For more information, call 860-523-5201 or email concerts@reddoormusic.org. St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Avenue, West Hartford CT 06119 ⓘ 🔗

February 8, 2020 (Saturday)

7:30 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: Old, New, Borrowed, and... Long Overdue. An interactive tour of choral music by exploring the footnotes: the interesting tidbits that lend to the intriguing journey some of these songs have taken, such as Allegri's Miserere, as well as the inclusion of composers who may have been relegated to the footnotes historically, such as Rhienberger, a brilliant composer considered of secondary importance by his contemporaries, or Cozzolani, a prominent 17th century composer of which you may not have heard. The inclusion of living composers, featuring Dunphy, Woo, and Quintana, rounds out the program. For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. First Church of Christ, Glastonbury, 2183 Main St, Glastonbury CT 06033 ⓘ 🔗

November 22, 2019 (Friday)

7:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity Chamber Ensemble [CT]: Voices of Concinnity Chamber Ensemble, "Old, New, Borrowed, and... Long Overdue: an interactive tour of choral music by exploring the footnotes.". Interesting tidbits that lend to the incredible journey some songs have taken, such as Allegri's Misesere, together with some composers who may have been relegated to the footnotes, such as Rhienberger, a brilliant composer considered of secondary importance by his contemporaries, or Cozzolani, a prominent 17th century composer. Contemporary composers Melissa Dunphy, Hyo-Won Woo, and Ariel Quintana are also included, The concert program will be digital and the audience will have the opportunity to categorize the songs via an app specifically designed for this concert. The result will be an eclectic mix of artfully crafted choral music, compelling stories of the songs, and a little trivia fun. For more information, call 860-230-1097 or email consonare.sing@gmail.com. St. Peter’s Episcopal Church 30 Church Street (Route 85), Hebron CT 06248 ⓘ 🔗

October 26, 2019 (Saturday)

5:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: Old, New, Borrowed, and Long Overdue: an interactive tour of choral music by exploring the footnotes. An inclusive, interactive, and innovative program including the interesting tidbits that lend to the incredible journey some songs have taken, such as Allegri's Misesere, as well as some composers who may have been relegated to the footnotes due to their gender, race, or otherwise. The concert program will be digital and the audience will have the opportunity to categorize the songs via an app specifically designed for this concert. The result will be an eclectic mix of artfully crafted choral music, compelling stories of the songs, and a little trivia fun. In lieu of admission, donations will be gratefully accepted to benefit the Neighbor Fund, a local organization that provides financial support for our neighbors facing deportation. For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. Storrs Congregational Church, 2 N. Eagleville Road, Storrs CT 06250 ⓘ 🔗

February 9, 2019 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: Has Love No Voice? Featuring selections by Lauridsen, Monteverdi, Holst, Whitacre, Schutz and more to explore “whether love, like music, can transcend time, the written page, and even the actual physical production of sound.” Led by founding director Sarah Kaufold, Voices of Concinnity is a 12-voice chamber ensemble of dedicated, seasoned choral artists from diverse backgrounds. Concinnity will experiment with the alignment of vocal timbres while exploring the stories of this collection of a cappella music possessing rich harmonies, compelling texts, and the capacity to affect one's soul. For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. 59 Tariffville Rd, Bloomfield CT 06002 ⓘ 🔗

February 2, 2019 (Saturday)

7:30 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: Coffeehouse concert: songs and stories from "Has Love No Voice?" program. Choral selections by Whitacre, Lauridsen, Monteverdi, Holst, and others, in a special, coffeehouse-style performance in a historic thread mill. Eastern Connecticut’s newest vocal chamber ensemble, Voices of Concinnity, explores the stories behind this music and how the singing of the text could affect us more profoundly than spoken word. You may bring your own food and beverage. For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. 156 River Road, Willington CT 06279 ⓘ 🔗

November 17, 2018 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: Has Love No Voice? Eastern Connecticut’s newest vocal chamber ensemble, Voices of Concinnity, explores through this program “whether love, like music, can transcend time, the written page, and even the actual physical production of sound.” Featuring the music of Laurdisen, Gesauldo, Whitacre, Holst, Schutz, and more, this performance is presented to benefit the Consonare Choral Community; donations are gratefully accepted. For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. St. Mary’s Church, 57 Valley Street, Willimantic CT 06226 ⓘ 🔗

October 5, 2018 (Friday)

7:00 PM. Voices of Concinnity [CT]: United: a cappella communities collide...to bring the community together to relish in a night of singing. A unique collaborative a cappella concert that features two diverse a cappella singing ensembles, the Conn Men from UConn and Voices of Concinnity, a new vocal ensemble from northeastern CT. Donations will be collected to benefit the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. For more information, email consonare.sing@gmail.com. Storrs Congregational Church, 2 N. Eagleville Road, Storrs CT 06250 ⓘ 🔗

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