2022-2023 Season
We began our season on December 17th at 7:30 PM at First Presbyterian Church of Allentown as we performed our bi-annual performance of G.F. Händel's Master Oratorio "The Messiah." We performed this masterwork in its entirety with full orchestra and soloists: Megan Monaghan, Soprano; Roger Isaacs, Countertenor; Christopher Hodson, Tenor; and Brian Ming Chu, Baritone.
We continued in the spring under the baton of Vincent Trovato with a concert entitled "So I'll Sing with My Voice: The Music of Faith, Fortitude, and Freedom." With soloists Kathryn Aaron, soprano; Lauren Curnow, mezzo-soprano; John Arnold, guitar. The selections of this performance were as follows:
Argento...........................SO I'LL SING WITH MY VOICE
Van...................................BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!
Runestad.........................THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS
Pergolesi.........................STABAT MATER
James Taylor...................UN MEJOR DIA VENDRA from the musical WORKING
MILLWORK from the musical WORKING
G.F. Händel.....................PREPARE THEN, YE IMMORTAL CHOIR from SEMELE
BLESS THE GLAD EARTH WITH HEAVENLY LAYS from SEMELE
Esenvalds........................O SALUTARIS HOSTIA
Vaughan Williams..........DONA NOBIS PACEM, Movement VI: O Man Greatly Beloved
Mitch Leigh.....................THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM
We continued in the spring under the baton of Vincent Trovato with a concert entitled "So I'll Sing with My Voice: The Music of Faith, Fortitude, and Freedom." With soloists Kathryn Aaron, soprano; Lauren Curnow, mezzo-soprano; John Arnold, guitar. The selections of this performance were as follows:
Argento...........................SO I'LL SING WITH MY VOICE
Van...................................BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!
Runestad.........................THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS
Pergolesi.........................STABAT MATER
James Taylor...................UN MEJOR DIA VENDRA from the musical WORKING
MILLWORK from the musical WORKING
G.F. Händel.....................PREPARE THEN, YE IMMORTAL CHOIR from SEMELE
BLESS THE GLAD EARTH WITH HEAVENLY LAYS from SEMELE
Esenvalds........................O SALUTARIS HOSTIA
Vaughan Williams..........DONA NOBIS PACEM, Movement VI: O Man Greatly Beloved
Mitch Leigh.....................THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM
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2021-2022 Season
Winter Concert "A Winter Collage" performed December 18, 2021
Ralph Vaughan Williams SUSSEX CAROL
Hubert Parry WELCOME YULE
Edward Elgar THE SNOW
Bob Chilcott THE SHEPHERDS SING
John Rutter A GAELIC BLESSING
Johannes Brahms GEISTLICHES LIED, Op 30
Roxanna Panufnik ANGELS SING
I: Jesus Christ Is Born
IV: Triumphant King
J.S. Bach MASS IN G, BWV 236 1: Kyrie (includes two violins)
William Mathias A BABE IS BORN
Josef Rheinberger ABENDLIED
Billy Joel (arr., Bob Chilcott) AND SO IT GOES
Ralph Vaughan Williams SUSSEX CAROL
Hubert Parry WELCOME YULE
Edward Elgar THE SNOW
Bob Chilcott THE SHEPHERDS SING
John Rutter A GAELIC BLESSING
Johannes Brahms GEISTLICHES LIED, Op 30
Roxanna Panufnik ANGELS SING
I: Jesus Christ Is Born
IV: Triumphant King
J.S. Bach MASS IN G, BWV 236 1: Kyrie (includes two violins)
William Mathias A BABE IS BORN
Josef Rheinberger ABENDLIED
Billy Joel (arr., Bob Chilcott) AND SO IT GOES
Spring Concert "Et Lux Perpetua" performed March 26th 2022:
Gabriel Fauré REQUIEM
W.A. Mozart LITANIAE LAURETANAE
Gabriel Fauré REQUIEM
W.A. Mozart LITANIAE LAURETANAE
2019-2020 Season
The season the world hit pause.
Camerata Singer's performed once in December with a tribute to the holiday season, including three carol sing alongs.
Camerata Singer's performed once in December with a tribute to the holiday season, including three carol sing alongs.
2018-2019 Season
The 2018-2019 season opened in November with a pair of rarely-heard works: W.A. Mozart's 'Inter Natus Mulierum' in G Major, and Robert Ingalls' 'Ave Maria' as part of the Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra’s annual Gala. The season continued nearer Christmas with a traditional, complete performance of Handel's Messiah. The Spring concert concluded the 2018-2019 season with an All French Program, featuring Maurice Duruflé's 'Requiem'.
Past Seasons - Camerata Archive
An extensive, archival history of Camerata Singers concerts, performance dates and locations, sorted by date, from the first concert in Spring, 1972, through the 2012-2013 season is available for download in .pdf format.
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