Cecilia Ensemble, directed by Esther Rhoades with collaborative pianist, Christopher Evatt, is the region’s premier high school treble chorus and Grand Monadnock Youth Choirs’ only high school ensemble.
Comprised of 18 auditioned singers, this sophisticated group performs both sacred and secular repertoire drawing from a range of languages, cultures, time periods, and traditions.
Cecilia Ensemble will perform two local send-off concerts in preparation for their upcoming concert tour of Rome, Florence, and Venice. The concerts will be held on Sunday. Feb. 9 at 4 p.m. at the Keene Public Library Cohen Hall, and Sunday, Feb. 16 at 4 p.m. at the Dublin Community Church.
The one-hour program will include music by American composers Moses Hogan, Alice Parker, Gwyneth Walker, Lee R. Kesselman, and Italian composers Giuseppe Verdi, Jacob Obrecht, and Claudio Monteverdi, among others. This predominantly a cappella program will also feature Evatt on piano and organ.
Donations will be accepted, and used as spending money for the singers while abroad. Cecilia Ensemble travels abroad every two years.
The choir is auditioned, and is made financially accessible to all accepted singers through tuition assistance and private donors.
GMYC is the performance-based choral music education program for young singers in the Monadnock Region.
To learn more about Cecilia Ensemble or Grand Monadnock Youth Choirs, visit www.GrandMonadnockYouthChoirs.org or contact Esther Rhoades at GrandMonadnockYouthChoirs@gmail.com.