SING
2024/2025
With
THE
RIVERSIDE CHORAL SOCIETY
Patrick Gardner, Director
Join one of the most outstanding, exciting choirs in New York City,
now in its
45th
season.
Sing with a world-class conductor, soloists and orchestral players.
Auditions for experienced singers for Riverside Choral Society's 2014 concert season
will be held starting in August for our December concert.
The Riverside Choral Society has made a specialty of presenting finely tuned performances
of great classical works with full orchestra and highly esteemed soloists.
Under the baton of acclaimed director Patrick Gardner, who is also the director of choral
activities at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, RCS has performed
major works by Beethoven, Bruckner, Brahms, Mozart, Schubert, Haydn, Britten, Pärt, Fauré,
Harrison, Orff, Stravinsky, Berlioz, Shostakovich, Schnittke, Verdi and many others at
major concert halls throughout the city. RCS has been a featured performer with the Mostly
Mozart Festival since 1998, with the Kirov Orchestra with Valery Gergiev conducting at
Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, and at the Wall-to-Wall concerts at Symphony Space,
among others. Through Patrick Gardner's inspiring leadership, rehearsals with this congenial
and welcoming group, are not only an opportunity to obtain an intimate and historical
knowledge of each piece, but to perfect the craft of singing and choral artistry.
Auditions are held before rehearsals (Tuesday nights from 7-9:30 PM at the Riverside Church
at 91 Claremont Avenue between 120th and 122nd Streets.
RCS is seeking
experienced singers with a high degree of musicianship. A prepared audition piece is not
required.
To arrange an audition, contact Eliza Lansdale at
rcsauditions@gmail.com
or 917-734-7512.
Recent collaborations have included:
- Mostly Mozart Festival, under Gerard Schwartz and Louis Langrée
- Symphonies by Shostakovich (Nos. 2, 3 &13) and Mahler (No. 2) with Kirov and
Rotterdam Orchestras, under Valery Gergiev
- Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms and Mendelssohn Lobgesang with Mannes College Orchestra
- Mark Morris Dance Group, at Lincoln Center and BAM under Nicholas McGegan and Jane Glover.
“The Riverside Choral Society had obviously prepared
the score thoroughly and sang the music with confidence and
full-bodied sound. This was a sensitive and rewarding performance
of Mozart's most ambitious choral work.”
-Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times
“The Riverside Choral Society gave a sublime reading of
the choral finale.”
-Allan Kozinn, The New York Times
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