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Audition Information
Written by David Wikman   

 

Membership in the Muskegon Chamber Choir is by audition only.

These auditions are held every year on the Tuesday and Wednesday after Labor Day.

The audition process is as follows (an accompanist is furnished):

Please be prepared to sing a solo for us.  This solo can range from a simple hymn to an aria from La Forza del Destino. A candidate should sing a selection that shows his or her voice in its best light.

After you have sung your solo piece, we will ask you to sight-read.  Because each concert is done with a minimum of rehearsals, we view sight-reading as a critical skill.

The sight-reading will consist of you singing your part of a simple four-part hymn that you don’t know while the piano plays the other three parts.  After we have chatted informally for a few minutes you’re all done.  Absolutely painless....guaranteed.

Audition scores will be held for one year. This eliminates the need to re-audition in case of an unexpected mid-season opening. Over the years a very few proven singers have been added to the choir by invitation.

 

Latest News

Join us on February 25th

 

The Muskegon Chamber Choir will sing a selection of its favorites from throughout the years.  Please join us on February 25th at 7:30 PM at St. Mark Lutheran Church in Norton Shores.

 
2010 -2011 review and look ahead

 

We don’t get much time to look back and “survey the wreckage” at the end of a season before the next one is right around the corner.  Auditions to hold, program themes and music to select, venues to arrange for – all of them come charging at us at record speed.  

We had a great 2010-2011 season.

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What people say

Our Choice - conductors notes


“They came to me and said, ‘We’ve had two audience choice programs lately.  When do WE get to vote?’  So I sent the whole library list to every singer and told each to send in his or her “top ten hits” The response was vast and widely varied.  Clear winners, however, began to emerge as the voting went on, and finally we had a program.  They really picked a good one.  They, after all, have to sing the stuff and know pretty well which music they like and what sounds well.

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Our Choice - Press release

 

Muskegon Chamber Choir
“Our Choice”
Saturday,
February 25, 7:30 pm
St. Mark Lutheran Church, Norton Shores

The Muskegon Chamber Choir, under the direction of David Wikman and accompanied by Cheryl Lohman, will sing its favorites at St. Mark Lutheran Church on Saturday, February 25 at 7:30 P.M. in St. Mark Lutheran Church in Norton Shores.  Entitled “Our Choice” the program was selected by suggestions from the choir membership.  Each member was furnished the names of the more than 300 pieces in choir’s library and asked to submit his or her list of favorites.  The most often named fourteen pieces make up the “Our Choice” bill of fare.

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