The Choral Society of the Hamptons was founded in 1946 by Charlotte Rogers Smith, a local choir dire
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Over the years, the chorus has performed works by major American composers, joined by instrumentalists and vocalists such as Dave Brubeck, Norman Dello Joio, Clamma Dale from Broadway, Marianna Christos and Gene Boucher of the Metropolitan Opera. These artists performed with the Chorus under numerous conductors of equal renown, such as Dr. Hugh Ross, Ifor Jones, Richard Vogt, Mitchell Krieger, Jon
de Revere, John Daly Goodwin, Dr. Timothy Mount, Sam V.K. Willson, Mark Mangini, Gilbert Kaplan, Avid Williams, and Walter Klauss. The singing members come from all areas of the East End, from Montauk to the Moriches as well as the North Fork, and the group has expanded its musical repertoire to include all great choral composers. The Society has ventured outside the region for special guest performances in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as appearances in New York City at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall and for the annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Rockefeller Center. The Society has hosted choral groups from abroad and has joined with other choruses for concerts at Southampton College of Long Island University, State University of New York at Stony Brook and in New York City.
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Today's the day! Join us at 5:30pm at the First Presbyterian Church of East Hampton for a concert like none other.
Tickets are available for sale online and at the door.
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Tickets still available for tomorrow's concert!
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Rehearsing for this concert has been such a fun and interesting experience as Guest Conductor Kinga Cserjési has leveraged the methods of Zoltán Kodály with the chorus. Come hear the fruits of our labor at this Sunday's concert. Tickets on sale online and over the phone. Learn more at:
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We are so pleased to collaborate with local organist Peter Ludlow for our spring concert, The Bringers of Light.
Peter Jaffray Ludlow began his professional organ career at the age of 12, as the organist at Incarnation Lutheran Church in Bridgehampton, under the tutelage of Charlotte Rogers Smith. Peter continued his training during school summers, attending Pipe Organ Encounter programs at the Juilliard School, Yale School of Music, and Westminster Choir College. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Music degree with a focus on Organ Performance at Vassar College, studying with Grammy-award nominee Gail Archer, and classical piano with Thomas Sauer.
Upon graduation Peter returned to Bridgehampton where he now manages his family’s fifth-generation farm, Mecox Bay Dairy. He continues his musical career, however, as the Organist and Music Director of St. John’s Episcopal Church and St. Andrew’s Dune Church, both in Southampton. He and his wife Haley, and their Bernese Mountain dog Rudy, live on the farm in the house that his great-great-grandfather built and where his grandmother Marjorie, an avid lover of music and supporter of The Choral Society, lived until her passing in 2019. His love for farming and the land is only equaled by his passion for music and the organ. He is thrilled to be the organ soloist in today’s program.
Alexandra Balog to perform at the Choral Society concert this Sunday!
Winner of the 2017 Béla Bartók International Piano Competition in Graz, pianist Alexandra Balog graduated with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music in London in 2019. Typically, she gives solo or chamber music recitals in Budapest, Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Skopje, Mexico City, Manila, Beijing, Shanghai, New York and London, which include solo performances at such prestigious venues as Solti Hall of the Liszt Academy of Music, Philharmonic Hall in Skopje, Berlinische Galerie, the Steinway Salon in Vienna, the Hungarian Embassy in New York, the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City and the Universidad de Caribe in Cancún, among many others. In 2022, she won first prize at the Franz Liszt Centre International Piano Competition La Nucia, Spain
Alexandra graduated in 2023 from the University of Music in Graz, where she obtained an Artist Diploma degree studying with Professor Markus Schirmer. Her previous teachers in the music conservatories include Ian Fountain, Zoltán Fejérvári and Erzsébet Belák. She was awarded the prestigious Junior Prima Prize in 2023 and a scholarship from the Hungarian Academy of Arts in 2022, and the Talentum Hungaricum scholarship in 2020.
As a soloist, she has also performed with the Savaria Symphony Orchestra, the Szent István Philharmonic, the Danube Symphony Orchestra, the Resonate Chamber Orchestra, the orchestra of the Royal Academy of Music and the Altalena Ensemble. The founder and artistic director of the Altalena Music Festival, and one of the leading members of the Altalena Young Artists Group, she is proud to be a moving force in a musical community of outstanding young musicians.
Her recordings include: Mozart: Piano concerto No. 25 K. 503 in C major; Brahms: Op. 117 No. 3, Mozart: Piano concerto No. 24 K. 491 in C minor, Schubert: Drei Klaviertücke D. 946 / 1, Mozart: Fantasy in C minor K. 475, and Beethoven: Sonata in F major Op. 10 No. 2
Hear Hungarian clarinetist Noémi Sallai at this Sunday's Choral Society concert!
Noémi was selected as the sole clarinet fellow in Carnegie Hall's prestigious music program, Ensemble Connect for the 2018-2020 season. A devoted chamber musician and passionate interpreter of solo repertoire written for the clarinet, Ms. Sallai premiered works for the clarinet in the United States by way of The Juilliard School's Focus. Festival and received first prize at several national and international clarinet competitions.
The winner of the 2018 PRISMA Concerto Competition in Canada, Ms. Sallai had the opportunity to play in the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, in Russia. A prize-winning enthusiast of orchestral music, she went on tour with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, participating in its production of Mozart's Don Giovanni. She also appeared as a clarinetist in such renowned groups as the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, the Binghamton Symphony Orchestra, The Princeton Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, the New Juilliard Ensemble and the Axiom Contemporary Music Ensemble. In addition, she participated in the Zoltán Kodály World Orchestra conducted by the renowned Hungarian pianist and conductor Tamás Vásáry.
Born and raised in Hungary, Ms. Sallai began her musical studies at the age of eight and started to play the clarinet at the age of eleven. She is not only a determined clarinet player but also a lover of other art forms such as drawing and painting. Besides playing classical music, Ms. Sallai also enjoys performing klezmer and folk-style pieces. She holds a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School of Music, where she was a recipient of the Irene Diamond and R. & H. Gold Woodwind Award. She completed her Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Arts degrees at Bard College, receiving the László Z. Bitó Scholarship. Her principal teachers include Jon Manasse, David Krakauer, Anthony McGill and Laura Flax.
Meet our guest conductor, Kinga Cserjési. The Bringers of Light: Featuring Music by Zoltán Kodály takes place this Sunday.
Conductor, soprano, singing teacher, choir conductor and Kodaly instructor Kinga Cserjési is the Associate Artistic Director of the Libero Canto School of Singing in New York City. She has been teaching singing in Budapest and New York City since 1999 and since 2007, has taught several workshops. From 2013 – 2015, she joined Deborah Carmichael to teach at the Il Cuore Canta summer workshops in Upstate New York. She moved to New York City in 2014 to establish the Libero Canto School of Singing together with Deborah This is currently the only licensed center worldwide for the Libero Canto Approach. In 2020, Kinga and Deborah launched their first official Libero Canto Teacher Education program.
Kinga has a master’s degree in choir conducting and in the Kodály Method from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, and a postgraduate degree in Early Vocal Music from the Brabants Conservatory in the Netherlands. In July 2022, she received a certification from the Kodaly Summer Institute at New York University/Steinhardt (director Dr. Jerry Kerlin), founded in 1989, which is endorsed by the organization of American Kodály Educators. Kinga has twenty-five years of experience teaching music and singing and leading vocal ensembles. Her work is based on world-renowned Hungarian approaches to music education, including the work of Zoltán Kodály, Béla Bartók, and Lajos Szamosi (founder of the Libero Canto Approach). She has taught countless singers and musicians between the ages of 5 and 70.
As both a soloist and as a member of various choruses and vocal ensembles, Kinga has sung internationally with various groups, including Gächinger Kantorei (Helmuth Rilling), Ensemble Organum (Marcel Pérès), Ensemble Kantika (Kristin Hoefener), Pacific Music Festival (Nicholas McGegan), L.E.O. - Last Enjoyable Opera Theater (Stefan Fleischhacker). She has been a member of the Constellation Chor ( Marisa Michelson), which premiered Ashley Fure’s work at Lincoln Center in 2018. In 2019, she sang at Carnegie Hall with The River Voices (Nikolett Pankovits). Since 2018, Kinga has developed and performed several programs together with colleagues from the Libero Canto School of Singing: Monteverdi & Bartók (2018), The Cozy Side of Beethoven (2019 – 2022), Brahms in ¾ Time (2022), and Ágról Ágra (2022), a program based entirely on Hungarian folk songs and the a ca****la choral pieces of Béla Bartók. The ensemble performed The Cozy Side of Beethoven again in October 2022 at Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Music Center, among other venues.
Only TEN days until our spring concert, one that is not to be missed!
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Sunday, April 75:30 pmFirst Presbyterian Church of East Hampton120 Main Street | East Hampton, NY The Choral Society of the Hamptons presents its spring concert.Kinga Cserjési, ConductingThe program celebrates choral music by Zoltán Kodály, who was an immense and formidable figure in Hungarian mu...
We are so exited for this very special concert.
Hear the beautiful music of Zoltán Kodály, an immense and formidable figure in Hungarian musical life, tradition, and education, as performed by the Choral Society of the Hamptons under the baton of Hungarian conductor and Libero Canto singing teacher, Kinga Cserjési, and featuring internationally acclaimed Hungarian instrumentalists, Alexandra Balog pianist and Noemi Sallai, clarinetist.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit: https://www.choralsocietyofthehamptons.org/april-2024
We are so proud and very grateful to be among the recipients of Bridgehampton Association's annual grants. The funding received will support our summer concert being performed at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church in late June (more details to come).
Thank you to the Bridgehampton Association and all of our supporters for enabling the Choral Society to bring the joy of choral music to our community.
The Bridgehampton Association and their president Blair Fiore awarded grants totaling $72,500 to 20 nonprofit organizations.
Today is the day! We are so excited to sing for you this afternoon at 3 o’clock and 5:30pm.
Doors open thirty minutes prior to the time of each performance. If you have not yet purchased tickets, we encourage you to do so online or over the phone at 631-204-9402. If you plan to buy your tickets at the door, please arrive early.
There’s nothing quite like the first orchestra rehearsal. We are so excited to sing this program for you on Sunday!
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Walter Klauss, a frequent guest conductor of The Choral Society and musical director at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor, will lead the chorus in this performance this Sunday, December 3. When asked what the audience can expect from A Christmas Garland, he shares, “The chorus and orchestra presents music expressing the wonders of the Christmas season, ranging from exhilarating works with three trumpets and timpani to serene and gentle music for chorus, harp and strings. The program concludes with the audience singing carols with the 20-piece orchestra.”
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On this Thanksgiving Day, we are grateful for the transformative power of music, the community it fosters, and each and every singer that makes the Choral Society the family of musicians it is. We are grateful to our supporters and audiences, community partners, and all of you!
Help the Choral Society of the Hamptons get featured on News 12!
The Choral Society has been selected as one of the finalists for News 12 Long Island's "Sounds of the Season" series. The five videos with the most votes will be featured on News 12.
Please go to the following link, scroll down to the Choral Society video towards the bottom and click on the heart in the pink bar to cast your vote. Listen to the 60 second video, too!
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You’ll be able to pick your favorite until Friday, Nov. 17 at 9 am
Today's the day!
And yes, tickets will be available at the door. :-) See you at Bay Street Theater. Concert is at 5:30pm, doors open at 5pm.
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Tomorrow, we will be joined on the Bay Street Theater stage by soloist Dominic Inferrera. We can't wait!
Dominic Inferrera, Baritone, has enjoyed acclaim in giving voice to opera, oratorio, musical theater, pop, jazz, and contemporary music. In the role of The Son in Hugo Weisgall’s Six Characters in Search of an Author with Opera Festival of New Jersey, The New York Times proclaimed him a “standout.” His performance of Young (Old) Button in John Eaton’s operatic adaptation of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at Symphony Space in NYC was hailed by The New York Times as “dynamic.” Other roles include The Celebrant in Bernstein’s Mass with the Cornell University Theatre, Escamillo in Carmen and Silvio and Marco in Pagliacci/Gianni Schicchi with Opera Delaware, Masetto (Don Giovanni) with Toledo Opera and Annapolis Opera, Lescaut (Manon Lescaut) at Opera Memphis, Guglielmo in Così fan Tutte with Capital City Opera, Moralès (Carmen), Wagner (Faust), and Maggiordomo (Vanessa) with Opera Festival of New Jersey, Escamillo with Union Avenue Opera, The Swineherd in John Harbison’s A Full Moon in March with Encompass Opera Theater, Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas) with the Greenwich Village Singers, Hollis in Bill Smith’s jazz opera, A Space in the Heart at Symphony Space, and Castro (Fanciulla) with New York City Opera. Concert repertoire has included Carmina Burana (Choral Society of the Hamptons, Monmouth Civic Chorus, Princeton Pro Musica), Faure’s Requiem, (Hamptons, Greenwich Village Singers, Pro Arte Chorale), Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem (Burlington, VT, Are Musica), Handel’s Messiah, and Pontius Pilate in Brooklyn Academy of Music’s critically acclaimed St. Matthew Passion. He has recorded Orpheus and Other Works by composer Louis Karchin, and Eaton’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on Albany Records.
We are excited to have excellent soloists joining us for this Sunday's concert A Touch of Whimsy: Choral Society's Spring Concert.
Barbara Fusco-Spera, Mezzo-Soprano, a native of Long Island, is Director of Vocal Studies at LIU Post. She enjoys an active freelance career as a soloist in and around the Tri-State area, and has performed throughout The United States, Canada, South America, Europe and Africa. Ms. Fusco-Spera has sung roles with Center for Contemporary Opera, Opera on the Sound, West End Opera, and the Wagner Training Center in New York where she worked under the baton of David Gilbert as Dryade in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, and in Wagner’s Die Walküre as Grimgerde. Her orchestral appearances include the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, the Adirondack Festival Orchestra at Saranac Lake and at Alice Tully Hall under the direction of Robert Craft. She most recently performed Edward Elgar’s Sea-Pictures with the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas Armstrong. She has been the mezzo soloist in such works as the Verdi Requiem performed at the Tilles Center on Long Island, Bach’s St.Matthew Passion, the Brahms Alto Rhapsody, Rossini’s Messe Solennelle, the Duruflé Requiem, and the Mozart Requiem to name a few. Her festival credits include the LIU Post Chamber Festival, Respiro Opera of NYC and Songe d’Été en Musique in Quebec, Canada where she performed, taught voice and taught Yoga for Singers. She has also taught Yoga for Singers with the Metropolitan Opera Guild’s Rising Stars program for talented High School students. Ms. Fusco-Spera maintains both a private voice and yoga studio on Long Island.
A Touch if Whimsy, conducted by David M. Brandenburg is just two weeks away! Do you have your tickets yet?
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The Choral Society of the Hamptons will hold auditions in late January and early February for singers interested in joining the group prior to the Choral Society’s next concert on Sunday, March 26. The Choral Society primarily rehearses at the Bridge
Thank you to everyone who attended and supported our annual holiday concert, Winter Fantasia, this past Sunday.
This was our first holiday concert since 2019 and we are so grateful for the magical evening we shared. Thank you for getting up on your feet and joining us in singing. There is no greater joy than celebrating music and community with you.
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