SUPPORT THE REINVENTION OF CHORAL MUSIC TODAY!
Thank you to everyone who participated in our recent Fall Campaign! Together we raised over $16,000!
To mail physical checks, please find instructions below
MORE ABOUT OUR 11TH SEASON & THE WORK WE DO
Examples of how your support this Fall will help the ground-breaking work of Choral Chameleon:
Composer-in-Residence Program:
We’re one of the few choirs in America to actively commission a composer multiple times over the course of a year to create new work. This Season’s Resident composer is Dale Trumbore, herself one of the most in-demand choral composers and active advocates for living composers today. In her own words “This residency feels like a safe space for me to take bold creative risks, and as a composer, that's the mark of a dream collaboration”. You can read about the work your donation will help to fund on our Composer in Residence page.
Spring Concert Program & Recording ‘Deus Ex Machina’:
For the first time, Choral Chameleon is dedicating an entire concert to new secular work for choir & pipe organ. There will be 3 World Premieres in this program (including the result of Vince Peterson’s commissioning consortium from last year’s Kickstarter!) and we are hoping to rent a great Manhattan space in parallel to St Paul’s in Brooklyn to expose this new repertoire to more audience.
Ensemble Touring:
The enthusiastic and warm response the Ensemble received in Season 10 from the communities outside of NYC who had invited Choral Chameleon to perform told us that it is time to bring our music to more people who have not yet heard what we do. Not all of the communities who are inviting us to perform can cover our professional musician’s fees in full and we may need some assistance to cover costs.
Summer Institute for Composers and Conductors:
As one of the leading Summer Programs for choral writing and conducting in the world, we want to keep fees at a manageable level for students while continuing to offer an unparalleled quality of teaching environment and lab choir interaction. We also want to continue to offer the concert at the end of the Institute to the public for free. This year's concert will be on Friday June 28th.
Composer-in-Residence Program:
We’re one of the few choirs in America to actively commission a composer multiple times over the course of a year to create new work. This Season’s Resident composer is Dale Trumbore, herself one of the most in-demand choral composers and active advocates for living composers today. In her own words “This residency feels like a safe space for me to take bold creative risks, and as a composer, that's the mark of a dream collaboration”. You can read about the work your donation will help to fund on our Composer in Residence page.
Spring Concert Program & Recording ‘Deus Ex Machina’:
For the first time, Choral Chameleon is dedicating an entire concert to new secular work for choir & pipe organ. There will be 3 World Premieres in this program (including the result of Vince Peterson’s commissioning consortium from last year’s Kickstarter!) and we are hoping to rent a great Manhattan space in parallel to St Paul’s in Brooklyn to expose this new repertoire to more audience.
Ensemble Touring:
The enthusiastic and warm response the Ensemble received in Season 10 from the communities outside of NYC who had invited Choral Chameleon to perform told us that it is time to bring our music to more people who have not yet heard what we do. Not all of the communities who are inviting us to perform can cover our professional musician’s fees in full and we may need some assistance to cover costs.
Summer Institute for Composers and Conductors:
As one of the leading Summer Programs for choral writing and conducting in the world, we want to keep fees at a manageable level for students while continuing to offer an unparalleled quality of teaching environment and lab choir interaction. We also want to continue to offer the concert at the end of the Institute to the public for free. This year's concert will be on Friday June 28th.
ALL THE WAYS YOU CAN SUPPORT CHORAL CHAMELEON
FINANCIAL:
Choral Chameleon relies on a combination of revenues, not just ticket revenues from live performances, dues and grants.
Individual donor support is critical for us to continue our important and influential work across many boroughs of New York City and beyond.
Make a Tax-Deductible Contribution To Choral Chameleon Today!
This work includes:
Choral Chameleon relies on a combination of revenues, not just ticket revenues from live performances, dues and grants.
Individual donor support is critical for us to continue our important and influential work across many boroughs of New York City and beyond.
Make a Tax-Deductible Contribution To Choral Chameleon Today!
This work includes:
- Preparation and Presentation of groundbreaking choral music programming, dealing with real human themes for real people that require exceptionally flexible and open-minded artists.
- Guaranteeing our audience will experience premieres of exciting new choral music in every season.
- Ability to offer year-long composer residencies.
- Freedom to explore secular contexts for choral music alongside the spiritual, to provoke reassessment of what a choral music concert can feel like, utilizing unexpected venues, videos and collaborations with other disciplines.
- Unparalleled educational experiences for emerging composers and conductors at our Summer Institute and providing guest conducting rotations.
- Increasing awareness of important social issues in our shared community through the medium of ensemble singing.
- Promoting personal health and well-being through choral singing as a sustainable life-practice for avocational and professional singers alike.
- “Changing the Voice of Choral Music” on the modern concert scene, and claiming our American choral music heritage.
If you prefer to donate by personal check, please address it to 'Choral Chameleon Inc.' and mail it (with your return address so we can send you a tax receipt):
Attn: Eddie Maddalena, Treasurer
Choral Chameleon
199 Carroll Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Attn: Eddie Maddalena, Treasurer
Choral Chameleon
199 Carroll Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
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SERVE ON OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Passionate about the health of the choral art form? Have a deep and diverse appreciation of music? Yearning to be where the decision-making happens, together with other like-minded individuals? Eager to learn about arts administration by getting your hands dirty? Want to support us financially or are a whiz at organizing fundraising events or writing grant applications? Do you recognize that to innovate, someone else doesn't always have the answer? A person who follows through on commitments? Then you may be a great candidate to serve on our Board! Talk to us! |
USHER:
The commitment is only a 1 hour before and 30 minutes after any concert - and you get FREE admission for yourself to any concert for which you usher!
Sign up!
The commitment is only a 1 hour before and 30 minutes after any concert - and you get FREE admission for yourself to any concert for which you usher!
Sign up!
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VOLUNTEER YOUR EXPERTISE:
Event planners, caterers, stage managers, graphic designers and other visual artists, marketing and PR specialists, fundraising, social media specialists, and more.
Contact us!
Event planners, caterers, stage managers, graphic designers and other visual artists, marketing and PR specialists, fundraising, social media specialists, and more.
Contact us!
SPONSOR:
Promote your own business by donating goods or services to Choral Chameleon. Receive free advertising in exchange for your support. Sponsors include food vendors, services, travel planners, retail stores, clothing and more.
Talk to us!
Promote your own business by donating goods or services to Choral Chameleon. Receive free advertising in exchange for your support. Sponsors include food vendors, services, travel planners, retail stores, clothing and more.
Talk to us!
PROMOTE US:
Add our Facebook events to your personal social media pages, share our posts & videos on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, take pictures and tweet during concerts, help hand out postcards at public outreach events, connect our organization with others who should know who we are - the sky is the limit!
It's also easy to host your own personal fundraiser on Facebook.
Add our Facebook events to your personal social media pages, share our posts & videos on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, take pictures and tweet during concerts, help hand out postcards at public outreach events, connect our organization with others who should know who we are - the sky is the limit!
It's also easy to host your own personal fundraiser on Facebook.
TOP FIVE REASONS TO SUPPORT CHORAL CHAMELEON
1. Choral Chameleon is more than just a choir. The Summer Institute is more than just a Summer course.
We are cultivating a choral community - one that is changing the lives of all who take part in it.
2. We are making PEOPLE MUSIC - presenting music about real human themes that people relate to; using people as the instruments - and all that comes with them.
3. We have commissioned, nurtured and produced OVER 150 WORLD PREMIERES in our first nine years - an unprecedented number, and a major statement about the support of new concert music for voices! This is one of the key reasons why Choral Chameleon has been recognized nationally by the choral community in our winning of the Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming in 2015 and why founder Vince Peterson was awarded the Chorus America Louis Botto Award for Innovative Action and Entrepreneurial Zeal.
4. We are actively using this art for social justice - in our periodical free outreach concert series around themes such as tolerance and climate change.
5. We are keeping people connected to each other person-to-person in a technological age which is moving at the speed of light!
We are cultivating a choral community - one that is changing the lives of all who take part in it.
2. We are making PEOPLE MUSIC - presenting music about real human themes that people relate to; using people as the instruments - and all that comes with them.
3. We have commissioned, nurtured and produced OVER 150 WORLD PREMIERES in our first nine years - an unprecedented number, and a major statement about the support of new concert music for voices! This is one of the key reasons why Choral Chameleon has been recognized nationally by the choral community in our winning of the Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming in 2015 and why founder Vince Peterson was awarded the Chorus America Louis Botto Award for Innovative Action and Entrepreneurial Zeal.
4. We are actively using this art for social justice - in our periodical free outreach concert series around themes such as tolerance and climate change.
5. We are keeping people connected to each other person-to-person in a technological age which is moving at the speed of light!
Your Contributions Of Any Size Make It Happen
A Huge Thank You To Our Financial Supporters in 2017-2018
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$1000+
Nicole Belmont David Dabbon David S. Delauro Andrew Kent Nick Mancino David Murray Brian Rosen Michael Squitieri Jessica Wong Anonymous (corporate) $500-999 Vince and Robyn Caponi Peter Cullen Joseph Gilbride David Moon Susan Ng Vince Peterson Frances Squitieri Edward Thompson Anonymous (1) |
$200-499
Suzanne Ames Deborah Bishop Jerry Cain Cara Caponi Mark Casey James Currier Tom Gabbard Kathleen Gilbride Jeffrey Hirschman Winnie Lee Mark Palermo John Prince and Pat Hick Cathy Solomon Stefanie Teitelbaum Joanne Tuck Stephanie Tuck Tom Ward |
$100-199
Michael Allocca Catherine Berardi Scott Brown Katherine Brown Justice Buckmaster Alex Canovas Rita Coladonato Michelle Coladonato Brandon Coyle Fern L. Ebling Sarah Frey Donald Gergel Barbara Gilbride Lawrence Gipson Assaf Gleizner Abner Greene Joseph Gregorio Janet Griffin-Canovas Johanna Hirota Karina Hon Jo Ann Hunter |
Rex Isenberg
Jane Kostelc Kate KostelcDonna Lee Robert Low Lancy Low Cecilia Marlow Karin Miller-Lewis Lisa Neigut George Peng Lynn Peterson Alan & Helene Reiffe Mark Shapiro Tom Shields Sam Shull Mary Speers Kathryn Squitieri Eric Stoessel Susan James Taylor Nanci Tuck Nicholas Weininger Joseph Wong Anonymous (1) |
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$10-$99
Annette Acevedo Alexandra Aldinger Lori and Chris Aldinger Brad Andalman Robbin Antony Jason Asbury Giving Assistant Sarah Bates Tai Becks Charlie Bellino Joseph Bellino Susan Bernstein Bruce Berquist Bryan Black David Bloom Irene Bobbins Kristina Boerger Ladd Boris David Bredthaurer Matt Brown Jennifer Campanaro Christopher Canahui Courtenay Schowalter Casey Loren Cheng Matt Cohen Nicki Cola Gus Constantellis Candice Cook Robert Cowan Evan Crawford Rebecca Crivello Mary Crowe Nikki D Richard D'Egidio Pritesh Damani Kristen Darmody Gina Marie Dawley Gabriel Jason Dean Hope deFrenes Lauren DeMarco Joshua Diamant Frances Didik |
Jeanne DiGennaro
Mette Due Nick Dupoux Mark Endozo Michael Fairbairn Andrea Farina Matthew Fernandez Nancy & James Fernandez Jared Field Matthew Finkel Julian Fong Candace Forest Stuart Freedman Derek Galvin Nick Gibson Jessica Gipson Kimberly Glassman Kelly Baxter Golding Joan Goldman Craig Goodwin Erin Greenawald Mark Grossman Ann Harris-Jacobs Mark Heflin Matt Hempey Lori Hiller Westley Todd Holiday Roland Jarquio Carole Jordorson Katrina Kahn Emily Keeler Jessica Kehlenbeck Mona Kennedy Ilya Khodosh Susie Krone Yong Wook Kwon Barbara Labounta Bernice Landis Pi Lanningham Jay Lee Leviathan Lab Claire Leyden Bryan Lin |
Lindsay
Cathy Lloyd Rose MacKenzie John Maclay Edward Maddalena Clare S. Maloney Mary Grace Mangano Rebecca Martinez Patrick Megley Katelyn Miles Shauna Miller Tegan Miller Kerry Moe David Mold T Monteferrante Wendy Moy Dylan Nagler Matt Neely Stephanie O'Keeffe Liz Ostler Roxanna Panufnik Gina and Gary Parnaby Suzanne Patterson Jenna Lynn Peet Brandon Pico Mikhail Pontenila Robert E. Randall Min Rhee Erin Rittweger Matt Robbins Michael Roberts David Rodwin Gerald Rosen Cary Rosko Virginia Schneider Michael A. Shea Andy Simmons Yusuf Simonson Boreta Singleton Doug Slemmer Amazon Smile Danny Smits Erica Spyres Paul Squire |
Christina Squitieri
Jacob Stensberg Jill Stevenson Joseph Stillwell Krishna Stone Sarah Suj Jack Sweeney Nathan Taylor Emma Teitelbaum Nancy Tepper Kris Thompson Anne Ticks Erin Tomson Rob Tuck Elena Tulloch Dalila Velez Matt Vieira Alison Wauk Jo Walker Peter Walters Stefanie Wauk Sara Joe Wolansky Lance A. Wood Jennifer Wu Jane Zaccaria Katie Zaffrann Meg Zervoulis Anonymous (16) |
Annual Report of Choral Chameleon, Inc.
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