Auditions

Auditions are open for Shir Joy Community Chorus. See the auditions page for more information.

May 1, 2026 (Friday)

6:00 PM. Nikghtingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: A New Way to Breathe. Juhi Bansal: A New Way to Breathe, a choral cycle for SATB chorus and cello with poetry by linguist, poet, aphasia, and stroke-survivor Farzana Marie. A premiere performance and recording, in collaboration with Nightingale producer Rose Hegele. For more information, email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. Gordon Chapel, Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

March 7, 2026 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Il Nuovo Suono ("The New Sound"). A portrait of Claudio Monteverdi through performances of his madrigals and selections of his personal letters. With The Pandora Consort. For more information, email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. Gordon Chapel, Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116 (View flier) 🔗

March 6, 2026 (Friday)

7:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Il Nuovo Suono ("The New Sound"). A portrait of Claudio Monteverdi through performances of his madrigals and selections of his personal letters. With The Pandora Consort. For more information, email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. Museum of Modern Renaissance, 115 College Avenue, Somerville MA 02144 (View flier) 🔗

November 2, 2025 (Sunday)

5:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Renaissance Reimagined. New compositions based on early sources paired directly with the pieces that informed them. Inspired by Roderick Williams’ Ave Verum Corpus (Reimagined), the concert will feature pieces by Nightingale composers Nathan Halbur, Kelvyn Koning, and Ben Perry, as well as by Kerensa Briggs, Caroline Shaw, and Richard J Clark, together with the Renaissance originals. For more information, email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 138 Tremont Street, Boston MA 02111 (View flier) 🔗

September 20, 2025 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Justicia y Paz. Latin American choral and folk music presented through the structure of a choral mass. Excerpts from Ariel Ramírez’s Misa por la paz y la justicia and Nico Gutierrez’s Requiem for the New World, with new arrangements of Latin American folk and popular repertoire to speak on themes of peace, justice, healing, and protest. For more information, email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. Veronica Robles Cultural Center, 282 Meridian Street, Boston MA 02128 (View flier) 🔗

September 19, 2025 (Friday)

7:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Justicia y Paz. Latin American choral and folk music presented through the structure of a choral mass. Excerpts from Ariel Ramírez’s Misa por la paz y la justicia and Nico Gutierrez’s Requiem for the New World, with new arrangements of Latin American folk and popular repertoire to speak on themes of peace, justice, healing, and protest. For more information, email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. St. Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Church, 28 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill MA 02467 (View flier) 🔗

August 17, 2025 (Sunday)

6:30 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: GARTENLIEDER. Kickoff concert and fundraising event: Enjoy refreshments, drinks, and a bouquet of songs exploring the complexity and beauty of garden ecosystems. Doors open at 6 pm for light refreshments, and music starts at 6:30 pm. For more information, email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. 95 Forest Hills Ave, Boston MA 02130 (View flier) 🔗

May 3, 2025 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Gala: Renaissance Reimagined. New compositions based on early sources paired directly with the pieces that informed them. Inspired by Roderick Williams’ Ave Verum Corpus (Reimagined), an inventive reworking of the Byrd classic, the concert will feature premieres by Nightingale composers Nathan Halbur, Kelvyn Koning, and Ben Perry, as well as contemporary compositions by Kerensa Briggs, Caroline Shaw, and local composer Richard J Clark, alongside works of the Renaissance. A gala event with food, drink, a silent auction, and the performance. For more information, email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116 (View flier) 🔗

March 15, 2025 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Voices of Water. Beginning with the creation of Cape Cod and the Islands as told by Massachusetts' indigenous communities, Nightingale also explores the geological formation before examining other important moments. The first Europeans from across the ocean to the waves of Irish immigration to Boston, the vast whaling and fishing industries that shaped local economies, and even present day ecological politics that will inform the Bay State's future - all of these and more come together to create a rich musical representation of our New England home. For more information, email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. Cape Cod (TBD), Boston MA 02111 (View flier) 🔗

March 14, 2025 (Friday)

7:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Voices of Water. Beginning with the creation of Cape Cod and the Islands as told by Massachusetts' indigenous communities, Nightingale also explores the geological formation before examining other important moments. The first Europeans from across the ocean to the waves of Irish immigration to Boston, the vast whaling and fishing industries that shaped local economies, and even present day ecological politics that will inform the Bay State's future - all of these and more come together to create a rich musical representation of our New England home. For more information, email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 138 Tremont Street, Boston MA 02111 (View flier) 🔗

March 12, 2025 (Wednesday)

7:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Voices of Water. Beginning with the creation of Cape Cod and the Islands as told by Massachusetts' indigenous communities, Nightingale also explores the geological formation before examining other important moments. The first Europeans from across the ocean to the waves of Irish immigration to Boston, the vast whaling and fishing industries that shaped local economies, and even present day ecological politics that will inform the Bay State's future - all of these and more come together to create a rich musical representation of our New England home. For more information, email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main Street, Rockport MA 01966 (View flier) 🔗

December 21, 2024 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Solstice. New music and sound installations by Angela Yam and Nicholas Ford that invite you to dissolve the boundaries between audience and performer and embrace a collective act of creation with the members of Nightingale. For more information, email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 138 Tremont Street, Boston MA 02111 (View flier) 🔗

5:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Solstice. New music and sound installations by Angela Yam and Nicholas Ford that invite you to dissolve the boundaries between audience and performer and embrace a collective act of creation with the members of Nightingale. For more information, email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 138 Tremont Street, Boston MA 02111 (View flier) 🔗

October 20, 2024 (Sunday)

7:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Blue Sun. Gregory Brown: un/bodying/s (text by Todd Hearon); Land-locked; with historic and modern works from the shape-note tradition. The composition un/bodying/s explores the history and future of the four "drowned towns" that were "disincorporated" to make way for the Quabbin Reservoir and provide water for Greater Boston. For more information, email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. Grace Episcopal Church, 14 Boltwood Avenue, Amherst MA 01002 (View flier) 🔗

October 19, 2024 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Blue Sun. Gregory Brown: un/bodying/s (text by Todd Hearon); Land-locked; with historic and modern works from the shape-note tradition. The composition un/bodying/s explores the history and future of the four "drowned towns" that were "disincorporated" to make way for the Quabbin Reservoir and provide water for Greater Boston. For more information, email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 138 Tremont Street, Boston MA 02111 (View flier) 🔗

December 5, 2023 (Tuesday)

1:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Exploratory Choral Meditations. Improvised vocal music as the ensemble in Residence at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston. Monthly, 1–3 p.m. Free admission. For more information, call 941-228-3543 or email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 138 Tremont Street, Boston MA 02111 🔗

November 1, 2023 (Wednesday)

1:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Exploratory Choral Meditations. Improvised vocal music as the ensemble in Residence at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston. Monthly, 1–3 p.m. Free admission. For more information, call 941-228-3543 or email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 138 Tremont Street, Boston MA 02111 🔗

October 4, 2023 (Wednesday)

1:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Exploratory Choral Meditations. Improvised vocal music as the ensemble in Residence at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston. Monthly, 1–3 p.m. Free admission. For more information, call 941-228-3543 or email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. The Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 138 Tremont Street, Boston MA 02111 🔗

September 23, 2023 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Poe & Gesualdo: The Cask of Amontillado. A choral dramatization of Boston-born author Edgar Allan Poe’s short story "The Cask of Amontillado", featuring the music of Carlo Gesualdo, who was infamous for murdering his wife and her lover (and well known for his dissonant Italian Renaissance polyphonic music). For more information, call 941-228-3543 or email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. Old North Church, 193 Salem Street, Boston MA 02113 🔗

September 21, 2023 (Thursday)

8:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Poe & Gesualdo: The Cask of Amontillado. A choral dramatization of Boston-born author Edgar Allan Poe’s short story "The Cask of Amontillado", featuring the music of Carlo Gesualdo, who was infamous for murdering his wife and her lover (and well known for his dissonant Italian Renaissance polyphonic music). For more information, call 941-228-3543 or email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. Old North Church, 193 Salem Street, Boston MA 02113 🔗

April 23, 2023 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Magic. A celebration of music, magic, and mysticism, including Hildegard von Bingen, arr. Nicholas Ford: Spiritus Sanctus Vivificans Vita; Meredith Monk: "Earth Seen from Above", from Atlas; Nicholas Ford: radiant bodies; R. Murray Schaefer: Magic Songs; from the New England Psalm-Singer: "Chesterfield" (Death May Dissolve My Body Now). Nicholas Ford, Project Lead; Benjamin Perry, Artistic Director. Tickets $25 at the door. For more information, email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116 🔗

April 22, 2023 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Magic. A celebration of music, magic, and mysticism, including Hildegard von Bingen, arr. Nicholas Ford: Spiritus Sanctus Vivificans Vita; Meredith Monk: "Earth Seen from Above", from Atlas; Nicholas Ford: radiant bodies; R. Murray Schaefer: Magic Songs; from the New England Psalm-Singer: "Chesterfield" (Death May Dissolve My Body Now). Nicholas Ford, Project Lead; Benjamin Perry, Artistic Director. Tickets $25 at the door. For more information, email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 838 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139 🔗

March 19, 2023 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Adrift. A first-of-its-kind staged choral opera, ADRIFT tells a love story through the poems of queer New Englander Emily Dickinson, featuring a massive-scale collaboration from five Nightingale resident composers. For more information, email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. BCA Plaza Black Box, 539 Tremont St, Boston MA 02116 🔗

March 18, 2023 (Saturday)

8:00 PM. Nightingale Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Adrift. A first-of-its-kind staged choral opera, ADRIFT tells a love story through the poems of queer New Englander Emily Dickinson, featuring a massive-scale collaboration from five Nightingale resident composers. For more information, email nightingalevocalensemble@gmail.com. BCA Plaza Black Box, 539 Tremont St, Boston MA 02116 🔗

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