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Cantare Chamber Ensemble

 
Chamber Ensemble
The Chamber Ensemble, founded in 1987, is the original choral ensemble of Cantare Con Vivo. Beginning with 24 singers, it expanded to 40 singers by Fall 1989 for a performance of Rachmaninoff’s Vespers. Ten years later, when Cantare Con Vivo reorganized forming a symphonic chorale and a music outreach program for youth, this original choir returned to 24 singers and renamed the Chamber Ensemble.

Today the Chamber Ensemble exemplifies Cantare’s rigorous standard of high musicianship. These singers perform a stunning variety of sacred and secular choral works, a cappella and accompanied, from the across the historical and cultural range of choral composition.

With over 800 choral compositions performed, the Ensemble continues to seek out the latest offerings from a new breed of American and international composers while widening their base with those identified musical geniuses of the past. (See repertoire below.)

The Chamber Ensemble has performed at the Western Division Regional Convention of the American Choral Directors Association and has released three CD recordings.

Please consult our Season Schedule for events featuring the Chamber Ensemble and audition procedures, should you be interested in joining us.

Cantare Chamber Ensemble


Cantare Chamber Ensemble

 

 
Repertoire
 
 

Ahlen, Waldemara

  • The Earth Adorned

Aitken, Paul

  • Flanders Fields

Alfven, Hugo

  • Aftonen

Ames, Jeffery L.

  • I’ve Been in the Storm So Long

Anonymous

  • Alla Cazza
  • Vitrum nostrum gloriosum

Argento, Dominick

  • Sonnet No. LXIV

Ayelton, Phil

  • When I Fall in Love

Bach, J. S.

  • Cantata #50, Nun ist das Heil
  • Mass in B Minor
  • Motet #1 Singet den Herrn
  • Motet #2 The Spirit Also Helpeth Us
  • Motet #6 Lobet Den Herrn, Alle Heiden
  • Organ Fugue in G minor (arr. Ward Swingle)

Banchieri, Adriano

  • Contrapunto bestiale alla mente

Barber, Samuel

  • Agnus Dei
  • Anthony O Daly
  • The Coolin
  • Mary Hynes
  • To Be Sung on the Water
  • Under the Willow Tree

Barnum, Eric William

  • There Was a Time

Baska, Robert

  • Fancy

Basler, Paul

  • Amor Que Une Con El Amor Grandisimo

Bassi, James

  • Harpsonnets

Barnum, Eric

  • Jenny Kiss’d Me

Baynon, Arthur

  • When Rooks Fly Homeward

Beethoven, Ludwig van

  • The Ruins of Athens

Bennet, John

  • Weep, O Mine Eyes

Berg, Ken

  • My God Is a Rock
  • O Holy Night

Berlin, Irving

  • What’ll I Do?

Bernstein, Leonard

  • Make Our Garden Grow

Biebl, Franz

  • Ave Maria (men's voices)
  • Ave Maria (mixed voices)

Billings, William

  • Chester
  • America 1770

Boito, Arrigo

  • Final Psalmody from "Mefistofele"

Bouzignac, Guillaume

  • Noe, noe! Pastores, Cantate Domino

Brahms, Johannes

  • Abendlied
  • An Die Heimat
  • Der Abend
  • Der Gang zum Liebchen
  • Fest- und Gedenkspruche
  • Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 52
  • Nþchtens
  • Nanie
  • O schone Nacht
  • Schaffe in Mir, Gott
  • Sehnsucht
  • Spþtherbst
  • Three Gypsy Songs
  • Warum

Bremer, Jetse

  • In dulce jubilo

Britten, Benjamin

  • Ballad of the Green Broom
  • Hymn to St. Cecilia
  • Rejoice In the Lamb
  • Te Deum
  • To Daffodils
  • The Succession of the Four Sweet Months
  • Marsh Flowers
  • The Evening Primrose

Broad, Elaine

  • We Remember Them

Brown, Uzee, Jr.

  • Wake Me Up, Lord, When It's Over

Bruck, Arnold von

  • So Trinken wir alle

Bruckner, Anton

  • Ave Maria
  • Christus factus est
  • Os Justi
  • Locus Iste
  • Virga Jesse floruit

Burt, Alfred

  • The Alfred Burt Carols, Set II

Busto, Javier

  • Ave Maria
  • Ave Maris Stella

Byrd, William

  • Haec Dies
  • Hodie Christus natus est

Byrt, John

  • Among the Leaves So Green, O

Carmichael, Hoagy

  • Georgia On My Mind
  • I Get Along Without You Very Well

Cavallaro, Carmen

  • El Grito

Certon, Pierre

  • Je ne l'ose dire

Chatman, Stephen

  • Angels We Have Heard on High

Chesnokov, Pavel

  • Duh Tvoy Blagiy (Let Thy Good Spirit)

Christiansen, F. Melius

  • O Day, Full of Grace

Christiansen, Paul

  • Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen

Cochran, Grant

  • Infant Holy, Infant Lowly

Copland, Aaron

  • At the River
  • Ching-A-Ring Chaw
  • In the Beginning
  • Lark
  • Long Time Ago
  • The Promise of Living
  • Stomp Your Foot

Corona, Beatriz

  • Corazon, coraza

Correa, Carlos

  • Plorans Ploravit

Crocker, Emily

  • Child of God

Daley, Eleanor

  • Balulalow

Dawson, William

  • Every Time I Feel the Spirit
  • Ain’t-a That Good News!
  • My Lord, What a Mourning
  • Ezekiel Saw de Wheel

Debussy, Claude

  • Trois chansons

DeCormier, Robert

  • I've Been in the Storm So Long
  • La Virgen Lava Panales
  • Let Me Fly

Deimer, Emma Lou

  • Three Madrigals

Delius, Frederick

  • To Be Sung of a Summer Night

Dello Joio, Norman

  • Song of the Open Road

des Pres, Josquin

  • El Grillo
  • Tu Pauperum Refugium

Dett, R. Nathaniel

  • I'll Never Turn Back No More
  • Let Us Cheer the Weary Traveler

Dickau, David

  • If Music Be the Food Of Life

Dilworth, Rollo

  • Freedom Train

Distler, Hugo

  • Singet dem Herrn

Durufle, Maurice

  • Ubi Caritas
  • Tota pulchra es
  • Tu es Petrus
  • Tantum ergo

Duson, Dede

  • Loch Lomond

Effinger, Cecil

  • Noon
  • Basket
  • Wood

Elgar, Edward

  • As Torrents in Summer
  • There Is Sweet Music

Bradley Ellingobe

  • Be Music, Night

    Ellington, Duke

  • All That's Jazz, a medley

Emerson, Ralph

  • Happy Together, The 60's, a medley

Encina, Juan del

  • Cucœ, cucœ

Erb, James

  • Shenandoah

Escalada, Oscar

  • Manchai Puito

Estevez, Antonio

  • Mata Del Anima Sola

Estacio, John

  • Ella Sunlight
  • I Lost Raymond
  • Mrs. Deegan
  • Not an Eye on the Island Is Dry

Farmer, John

  • Fair Phyllis

Farrow, Larry

  • O Happy Day

Favero, Alberto

  • Te Quiero

Fleming, L. L.

  • Give Me Jesus

Foster, Stephen

  • Beautiful Dreamer
  • My Old Kentucky Home
  • Hard Times (arr. Craig Hella Johnson)

Gabrieli, Giovanni

  • Beata Es Virgo Maria
  • Jubilate Deo

Garcia, Gary

  • There Is No Rose

Gastoldi, Giovanni Giacomo

  • Amor vittorioso

Gawthrop, Daniel

  • Sing Me to Heaven
 

Gershwin, George

  • A Concert Panorama

Gesualdo, Don Carlo

  • Ave Maria Dulcissima

Gibbons, Orlando

  • The Silver Swan

Gibbs, Stacey V.

  • I Don’t Feel No Ways Tired

Gorecki, Henryk Mikolaj

  • Totus Tuus

Grainger, Percy

  • Londonderry Air

Guastivino, Carlos

  • Se Equivocó la Paloma

Hairston, Jester

  • I Can Tell the World
  • Mary's Little Boy Chile

Halley, Paul

  • What Stood Will Stand

Halloran, Jack

  • Witness

Ham, Tae Kyun

  • Kashiri

Henson, Blake

  • Little Lamb

Handel, George Frederic

  • Haste Thee, Nymph
  • Messiah (complete)

Hassler, Hans Leo

  • Tanzen und Springen

Hawley, William

  • Ave Regina Caelorum
  • Io Son La Primavera
  • Vita De La Mia Vita

Head, Michael

  • The Little Road to Bethlehem

Henderson, Ray

  • Won't You Buy?

Herzogenberg, Heinrich von

  • Die Einsame
  • Die Nacht
  • Wie Schon, Hier Zu Vertrþumen
  • Zwei Musikanten

Hess, Marjorie

  • The Oxen

Hogan, Moses

  • Abide With Me
  • The Battle of Jericho
  • Elijah Rock
  • Glory, Glory, Glory to the Newborn King
  • Hold On
  • I'm Gonna Sing 'Til the Spirit
  • My Soul's Been Anchored
  • There's a Man Goin' Round

Holst, Gustav

  • Ave Maria
  • Lullay, My Liking
  • My Sweetheart's Like Venus
  • Nunc dimittis

Hopkins, James

  • A Birthday
  • Come to Me in the Silence of the Night
  • May
  • When I Am Dead, My Dearest

Houkom, Alf

  • The Rune of Hospitality

Howells, Herbert

  • A Spotless Rose
  • Here Is the Little Door
  • Long, Long Ago
  • Requiem

Ives, Charles

  • Psalm 90
  • The Sixty-Seventh Psalm
  • Turn Ye, Turn Ye

Jalkeus, Anders

  • Silent Night

James, Donald

  • Bushes and Briars

Jannequin, Clement

  • Au Joly Jeu

Jennefelt, Thomas

  • Du Som €r Min Herre
  • Musik till en stor kyrka
  • Bön

Jennings, Carolyn

  • Climb to the Top of the Highest Mountain

Billy Joel/Phillip Lawson

  • Lullabye

Johnson, Hall

  • I've Been 'Buked

Johnson, Lane

  • Sweet Love Remembered

Komulainen, Juhani

  • Four Ballads of Shakespeare

Kelley, R.

  • I Believe I Can Fly

Kemner, Gerald

  • Now Shout!
  • Returning Home

Jerome Kern/Ward Swingle

  • All the Things You Are

Kirkpatrick, W. J.

  • Away in a Manger

Knecht, Kurt

  • Michelangelos'’s On Beauty

Kodaly, Zoltan

  • Christmas Dance of the Shepherds
  • Psalmus Hungaricus

Kubik, Gail

  • Oh Dear! What Can the Matter Be?

Kverno, Trond

  • Ave Maris Stella
  • Corpus Christi Carol

Lasso, Orlando di

  • Matona, Mia Cara
  • Ola! O che bon eccho

Lauridsen, Morten

  • Contre Qui, Rose
  • De Ton reve Trop Plein
  • Dirait-on
  • En Une Seule Fleur
  • La Rose Complete
  • O Magnum Mysterium
  • O Nata Lux
  • Sa Nui d’Été
  • Soneto de la Noche
  • Sure on this Shining Night

Lennon, John

  • Blackbird

John Lennon/Paul McCartney

  • Strawberry Fields Forever (arr. Karlsson, Peder)
  • Penny Lane

Leontovich, Mykola, arr. P. Wilhousky

  • Carol of the Bells

Lindberg, Nils

  • Shall I Compare

Liszt, Franz

  • Missa Choralis

Loewe, Frederick

  • Broadway Legends: Lerner & Loewe

Luboff, Norman

  • A La Nanita Nana
  • The Streets of Laredo

Lundvik, Hildor

  • Three Nocturnes

Mahler, Gustav

  • Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

Martin, Frank

  • Double Choir Mass

Matamoros, Miguel

  • Juramento
  • Son de La Loma

McCall, Marty

  • O Sifuni Mungu

J. Aaron McDermid

  • Te Lucis Ante Terminum

Mead, George

  • Down In the Valley

Mechem, Kirke

  • Christmas Carol

Meeropol, Abel, arr. David Morales

  • Strange Fruit

Mendelssohn, Felix

  • Grant, O Lord, Thy Grace Unbounded
  • Psalm 100
  • Mitten wir im Leben sind

Messiaen, Olivier

  • O Sacrum Convivium

Miller, John D.

  • Oh, No John

Mocnik, Damijan

  • Christus est natus

Moore, Undine S.

  • Daniel, Daniel, Servant of the Lord

Morales, David

  • Armed Service Medley
  • Western Song Medley

Morley, Thomas

  • Agnus Dei
  • Fire, Fire! My Heart
  • Now Is the Month of Maying

Mozart, Wolfgang A.

  • Requiem

Mulholland, James

  • A Red, Red Rose
  • The Banks O' Doon
  • Green Grow the Rashes, O
  • Heart, We Will Forget Him
  • Highland Mary

Nelson, Ron

  • Three Mountain Ballads

Nestor, Leo

  • To Rise Beyond the Stars
  • Who Is She Ascends So High?
  • Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go?

Nystedt, Knut

  • O Crux

Orban, Gyorgy

  • Ave Maria
  • O Pan
  • Stabat Mater in F

Oldham, Kevin

  • Small Flowers

Owen, Harold

  • I Am the Wind

Page Nick

  • N‘kosi Sikelil’ I Afrika

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da

  • Sicut Cervus

Alma Redemptoris Mater

  • Sicut Cervus

Paranjoti, Victor

  • Dravidian Dithyramb

Parker, Alice

  • Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal
  • Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye
  • Tell 'Em I'm Gone

Parry, Ben (arr.)

  • Ciao Bella, Ciao

Part, Arvo

  • Magnificat

Passereau, Pierre

  • Il est bel et bon
 

Paulus, Stephen

  • Pilgrims' Hymn
  • The Day Is Done

Paus, Marcus

  • Ave Maria

Paynter, John

  • The Rose

Pierpont, J., arr. B. Parry

  • Jingle Bells

Pinkham, Daniel

  • Christmas Cantata

Poulenc, Francis

  • Ave Maria
  • Hodie Christus natus est
  • Messe En Sol Majeur
  • Quem vidistis pastores dicite
  • O Magnum Mysterium
  • Videntes stellam
  • Un soir de neige

Powell, Rosephanye

  • Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

Rachmaninoff, Sergei

  • Vespers

Raminsh, Imant

  • Lullaby
  • In the Night We Shall Go In
  • O Ignis Spiritus

Rautavaara, Einojuhani

  • "Suite" de Lorca

Ray, Robert

  • Gospel Mass

Reagon, Bernice Johnson

  • Ella’s Song

Richards, Stephen

  • And It Shall Come to Pass
  • Come Ye and Let Us Go Up
  • I Lift My Eyes
  • Turtle Dove
  • Your Holy Mountain

Roberts, Howard

  • Sinner Man

Robinovitch, Sid

  • Prayer Before Sleep

Rodgers, Richard

  • If I Loved You
  • My Funny Valentine (arr. Jerry Rubino)
  • Rodgers and Hammerstein On Broadway
  • You'll Never Walk Alone

Rossini, Gioacchino arr. Daryl Runswick

  • The Barber of Seville Overture

Rorem, Ned

  • From an Unknown Past

Rubino, Jerry

  • Away in a Manger

Rutter, John

  • Candlelight Carol
  • Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron
  • I Wonder as I Wander
  • O Waly, Waly
  • There Is a Flower

Sametz, Steven

  • Kas Tie Tadi

Sandstrom, Jan

  • Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming

Sandström, Sven-David

  • Laudamus te

Sargent, Malcolm

  • Silent Night

Saylor, Bruce

  • O Poor Little Jesus

Schickele, Peter

  • Going for Broke

Schutz, Heinrich

  • Jauchzet Dem Herrn Alle Welt

Schonberg, Arnold

  • Friede auf Erden

Schonberg, Claude-Michel

  • Les Miserable, a Medley

Schubert, Franz

  • Lebenslust

Schumann, Georg

  • Herr, Erhore Meine Worte
  • Komm, heiliger Geist

Schumann, Robert

  • Das Schifflein
  • Wenn Ich Ein Voglein Wþr
  • Zuversicht

Seeger, Pete

  • The Bells of Rhymney

Shaw, Robert

  • Amazing Grace
  • Hacia Belen Va un Borrico
  • John Saw Duh Number
  • Sometimes I Feel

Manning Sherwin/arr. Gene Puerling

  • A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

Simeone, Harry

  • Do You Hear What I Hear?
  • The Little Drummer Boy

Simon, Paul

  • An American Tune

Simpson, Eugene T.

  • Sinnun, Please Don’t Let dis Harves’ Pass

Sisask, Urmas

  • Oremus

Sjolund, Paul

  • Go Tell It

Smith, William Henry

  • I Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray
  • Ride the Chariot

Somers, Harry

  • Feller from Fortune

Stanford, Charles

  • The Blue Bird

Stevens, Halsey

  • Go Lovely Rose
  • Lady, As Thy Fair Swan

Strauss, Richard

  • Der Abend

Stroope, Z. Randall

  • All My Heart This Night Rejoices
  • I Am Not Yours

Sund, Robert

  • Alouette

Surinach, Carlos

  • Noche Oscura del Alma

Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon

  • Angelus ad pastores ait
  • Hodie Christus natus est

Takemitsu, Toru

  • A Song of Circles and Triangles
  • All that the Man Left Behind
  • Cherry Blossoms
  • Wings

Tavener, John

  • A Hymn to the Mother of God
  • Magnificat
  • The Tiger

Taylor, Deems

  • Waters Ripple and Flow

Teml, Jiri

  • Ave

Frank Ticheli

  • There Will Be Rest

Thomas, Mansel

  • Shore to Shore
  • Someone

Thompson, Randall

  • Americana
  • Frostiana, Seven Country Songs
  • The Pasture

Tomkins, Thomas

  • Too Much I Once Lamented

Torme, Mel, arr. J. Rubino

  • The Christmas Song

Tormis, Veljo

  • God Protect Us from War

U2, arr. Chilcott, Bob

  • MLK

Unterseher, Reginald

  • Live with Me and Be My Love

Van, Jeffrey

  • Child of Peace
  • El Rorro

Vasiliauskaite, Kristina

  • Missa BrevisVasquez, Juan
  • De los Alamos Vengo

Vaughan Williams, Ralph

  • Linden Lea
  • Serenade to Music
  • Three Shakespeare Songs

Verdi, Giuseppe

  • Ave Maria
  • Te Deum

Victoria, Tomas Luis de

  • O Magnum Mysterium
  • Vere Languores Nostros

Vivaldi, Antonio

  • Gloria

Vujic, Aleksandar S.

  • Andeleli Oboduo

Walker, William

  • Hallelujah

Waller, Thomas

  • Ain't Misbehavin'

Warrell, Arthur (arr.)

  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Washburn, Jon

  • A Stephen Foster Medley

Webber, Andrew Lloyd

  • Memory
  • The Phantom of the Opera, a Medley

Whitacre, Eric

  • A Boy and a Girl
  • Little Birds
  • Lux Aurumque
  • i thank You God for most this amazing day
  • Sleep
  • Water Night

Wilberg, Mack

  • Cindy
  • Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
  • I'll Ay Call in By Yon Town
  • My Love's in Germany

Wilby, Philip

  • Marianne

Wilhousky, Peter

  • Battle Hymn of the Republic

Willcocks, David

  • Bobby Shaftoe
  • Early One Morning
  • Infant Holy, Infant Lowly (Polish Carol; arr)
  • Away in a Manger (arr)

Wolf, Hugo

  • Ah, the Infant's Eyes

Work, John

  • This Little Light of Mine

Zegree, Steve

  • A Take 6 Christmas

Zimmermann, Heinz Werner

  • Sing Unto the Lord

 

 

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