Announcements

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Our winter season is fast approaching!

Rehearsals for our performance of Handel's Messiah begin on September 10 at 7:30pm. Please bring along the Bärenreiter score. Our concert will be on December 14. See you then!

If you need a copy of the Bärenreiter score of Messiah, you can find it on JW Pepper. (You only need the SATB Choral Score.)

Auditions

New singers interested in joining our group should email our Music Director, Eduardo Azzati, at [email protected] to arrange an audition. Singers who have sung with the group in the past should contact [email protected]. For more information, click HERE.

Concert Dress

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Women - Floor length black dress or black slacks with top, sleeves to the wrist.

Men - Black tuxedo with white dress shirt.

Rehearsals

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Rehearsals will be held on Tuesdays at 7:30 PM at First Presbyterian Church, Allentown, PA.

Rehearsal and
Performance Info

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• First rehearsal: September 10, 7:30 PM
• Winter 2024 Concert, Handel's Messiah: December 14

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Winter 2024 Repertoire

​Messiah (complete) - George Frederic Handel​

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Rehearsal Tracks

RehearsalTracks.net has user-friendly rehearsal tracks for Messiah, based on the Bärenreiter edition.

To use them:

1. Navigate to the link above
   
2. Click on “choral parts only."
   
3. Click on the desired chorus title. To select the desired voice part, click on “choose a different voice” under Voice & Difficulty and then click on the desired part under Choose your Voice. 
   

You can also:

• Rewind/fast forward
• Jump to a specific measure
• Jump to a specific page
• Adjust the tempo
• Save as an MP3

​CyberBass is a website that houses MIDI tutorial files that will help you learn your individual parts. CyberBass is not beautiful or artistic. It does not playback dynamics or vocal nuances. It is a note bashing site. CyberBass is an aid to rapidly learn and perfect music, freeing the conductor for more artistic endeavors. It is 100% free to use online. 

Handel's Messiah on CyberBass​

Inclement Weather

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Note that, in the event of inclement weather on rehearsal days, an announcement about rehearsal status will be posted here, through email, on the Camerata Singers Facebook Page, and on the main page after 3:00pm. Remember to refresh this page with your browser to check if rehearsal will be cancelled.  Also, First Presbyterian Church posts notices here when the church itself is closed for all activities.

Section Representatives

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Singers are encouraged to notify their section representatives in advance if unable to attend rehearsals. ​

​SECTION	SECTION REP	PHONE NUMBER	ALTERNATE	PHONE NUMBER
SOPRANO	Liz Conrad	(610) 554-0180	Catherine Alling	610-954-5711
ALTO	Alison Seibert	(610) 432-4770	Jacqueline Lewis	(610) 395-8311
TENOR	Quentin Sowers	(610) 587-4013
BASS	​Ted Twardzik	(610) 967-2567

Active Singers

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SOPRANO 1	​ALTO 1	​TENOR 1	​BASS 1
Corliss Bachman Katie Burt Siobhan DeRemer Jeanne Harakal Kathy Hontz Donna Yasenchok ​ ​ ​ ​ ​	Lynn Birney Vi Ballard Sharon Beckhard Elizabeth Buss Cheryl Cherry Catherine Elwell Susan Evatt Roberta Meek Rachel Sauer-Koeffler Lynn Sfanos Lois Stauffer Catherine Waltemyer ​ ​ ​ ​	Stephen Bueker Don Buss Richard Woodham ​ ​ ​ ​ ​	Christian Buss Robert Evatt Donald Seagreaves George Fennell ​ ​ ​ ​
SOPRANO 2	​ALTO 2	​TENOR 2	BASS 2
Catherine Alling Wilma Krause Brucker Elizabeth Conrad Cindy Cicconi-Ernst Suzanne Frederick Susan Glover Marguerite Reinhard Elizabeth Z Moessner ​ ​ ​	Silvia Augstroze Donna Butler Katie Dyer Natalie Foster Barbara Kautzman Sarah Lee Jacqueline Lewis Sharon Krywosa Alison Seibert ​ ​ ​	Dean C Berg John De Angelo Jamie Henry David Mentzer Donald Simmons Quentin Sowers ​ ​ ​	Todd Fennell David Nowack Edward Quinter Ted Twardzik ​ ​ ​ ​ ​