Meistersingers announces auditions for experienced singers in all voice parts.

Meistersingers, founded in 2000, is a SATB choir of 32 elite voices drawn from throughout Southern California. Their repertoire spans over five centuries and encompasses every conceivable genre of classical choral music. They perform throughout Southern California to a wide range of audiences. The group is proud to announce this annual call for auditions; all voice parts are being considered.

Auditions will be held Sunday, September 12th, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.

Rehearsals are held on Sundays from 6:30-9:00 p.m. at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Orange.

First rehearsal for the 2010-2011 season will be Sunday, October 3rd.

Concert dates are:
• 2010-- December: 11, 12, 18
• 2011-- March: 26, 27
• 2011-- June: 11, 12

Audition Times
(By Appointment Only - call or email to schedule – First contact/First served)
Contact information:
Maggie Worsley
mworsley@meistersingers.org / (734) 272-5926

The audition will consist of:
• Warm-ups (evaluating range and tone quality)
• Sight reading
• Performance of prepared piece of applicant’s choice

Please remember to bring to the audition:
• Three (3) copies of chosen prepared piece
• Resume or description of choral experience (optional)

AUDITION AND REHEARSAL LOCATION:
Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church
800 N. Cambridge Street
Orange, CA 92867

We would like to congratulate Dr. Kris Maloy for his winning composition. Over the years, this competition has grown significantly. Not only in the number of entrants (a great deal of entries were received this year), but also in the difficulty of selecting the winning piece. We are thankful to all of the composers out there that continue to write such fine works as it perpetuates this outstanding form of art. Likewise, we are proud to have performed the World debut of Song of the Moon at our last concert.

Program Note for Song of the Moon:
Near the end of Prometheus Unbound, Shelley's epic "closet drama"--a genre of Romantic play intended to be staged only in the reader's imagination--the earth and the moon sing a love song to each other as the universe is unified in song and spirit. The text of this poem is taken from the author's reworking of the original song into a more succinct and perhaps more pure form that was published later by Mary Shelley under the title "Variation on the Song of the Moon."

Though the text can certainly be heard as a Romantic love poem--the pairing of earth and moon often a metaphor for the masculine and feminine in Romantic poetry--it is, I think, also a great celebration of spirituality, the harmony of the universe, and the oneness of all things.

About the composer:
An eclectic composer of many influences, Kris Maloy has received honors and awards in music composition from the American Composers Forum, the Minnesota Orchestra Composers Institute, the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra’s Young and Emerging Composers Series, The New York Virtuoso Singers, The North American Saxophone Alliance, The University of Kentucky New Music Festival, The Society of Composers, Inc. and ASCAP. Recent commissions include Quartet in Four Actions for the chamber music group BrightMusic (soon to receive its Carnegie Hall premiere), White Heat for the University of Central Oklahoma's award-winning Jazz Orchestra, Flourish for Duo Clarion (clarinetist Chad Burrow and pianist Amy Cheng), two upcoming works for high school wind ensembles, and Visions & Fantasies, a concerto for soloist and small orchestra commissioned by the St. Louis School of Music. He was also a recent resident composer at The Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada, and this summer will be a resident artist at the Ucross Arts Colony.

Dr. Maloy holds a Bachelor of Music degree in music composition from Oklahoma City University in 2000, graduating Summa cum Laude. He received a Master of Music degree in composition from Bowling Green State University in 2002, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. He has studied composition with Donald Grantham, Kevin Puts, Marilyn Shrude, Edward Knight, and Mikel Kuehn, and electroacoustic music with Russell Pinkston, Bruce Pennycook, and Elainie Lillios.

An active saxophonist, Dr. Maloy has been a featured performer in both classical and jazz settings. He has received two Outstanding Individual Achievement Awards in Jazz from the National Association of Jazz Educators in 1997 and again in 1999 for featured performances at the Wichita Jazz Festival. His performances have also been featured at the SCI Student National Conference in 2002, the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference, and the SCI Region V Conference of 2008.

Dr. Maloy was inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society in 1999. He is a member of SCI and ASCAP, and currently teaches at the Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University, the University of Central Oklahoma, and at UCO’s Jazz Lab. He is an instructor in composition, jazz and commercial arranging, orchestration, improvisation, songwriting, saxophone, music theory, and aural skills.

Concert tickets are $15. Children and students (with a student ID card) will be free of charge. We are also offering a concert season pass which will admit you to one performance of each of our three concerts of the concert season.

Tickets can be purchased at the concert venues on the evening of the performance. Tickets will also be available at the concert venues prior to the performance. (Contact each venue for specifics about when they are available.) You can also purchase them from any member of the ensemble. Season tickets will only be sold through the Christmas concerts. Finally, you can reserve your tickets or get more information via email.