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Princeton University Chamber Choir, directed by Gabriel Crouch & Michael McCormick, presents their spring concert.

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Performers

with Julian Gregory of The King’s Singers (Evangelist), storied Baroque orchestra The Sebastians, and Princeton University Chamber Choir. Conducted by Gabriel Crouch.

Ticketing

$16 General | $6 Student*

Passport to the Arts Eligible

*Ticket prices are inclusive of all fees.

Faculty and Staff only: In addition to two (2) free tickets, all university Faculty and Staff can also purchase additional tickets at a price point of $6 per ticket.

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About

The Chamber Choir at Princeton is the smaller sibling of the Princeton University Glee Club, and forms part of a large network of choral and vocal groups on our campus which includes the Glee Club, Chapel Choir, Playhouse Choir (for theatrically-inclined singers), a Vocal Consort Certificate program (for students interested in one-to-a-part singing) and as many as fifteen a cappella groups. Led by Gabriel Crouch since 2010, the choir has grown significantly in size and in ambition and has distinguished itself in some notable collaborations and invited performances: The complete motets of JS Bach with the Leipzig vocal ensemble ‘Calmus’ in 2014, performed in both Princeton and Leipzig; headline performances for the conference of the American Handel Society of Dixit Dominus and a new German language edition of Messiah in 2017; the forgotten masterpiece Black Christ of the Andes by Mary Lou Williams with pianist Cyrus Chestnut; and in 2022, a performance of Francis Poulenc’s epic cantata Figure Humaine, which earned the choir a place in the closing concert of the 2023 National Collegiate Choral Organization (NCCO) in Atlanta, performing the same work.

As with all our choirs at Princeton, our singers receive no credit for participation, and the vast majority of them are normally found in departments far removed from Music!

Gabriel Crouch is Director of Choral Activities and Professor of the Practice in Music at Princeton University. He began his musical career as an eight-year-old in the choir of Westminster Abbey, where his solo credits included a Royal Wedding, and performances which placed him on the solo stage with Jessye Norman and Sir Laurence Olivier. After completing a choral scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was offered a place in the renowned a cappella group The King’s Singers in 1996. In the next eight years he made a dozen recordings on the BMG label (including a grammy nomination), and gave more than 900 performances in almost every major concert venue in the world. Since moving to the USA in 2005 he has built an international profile as a conductor and director, with recent engagements in Indonesia, Hawaii and Australia as well as Europe and the continental United States. In 2008 he was appointed musical director of the British early music ensemble ‘Gallicantus’, with whom he has released six recordings under the Signum label to rapturous reviews, garnering multiple ‘Editor’s Choice’ awards in Gramophone Magazine, Choir and Organ Magazine and the Early Music Review, and, for the 2012 release ‘The Word Unspoken’, a place on BBC Radio’s CD Review list of the top nine classical releases of the year. His recording of Lagrime di San Pietro by Orlando di Lasso was shortlisted for a Gramophone Award in 2014, and his follow-up recording - Sibylla (featuring music by Orlandus Lassus and Dmitri Tymoczko) was named ’star recording’ by Choir and Organ magazine in the summer of 2018. His most recent release is Mass for the Endangered, a new composition by Sarah Kirkland Snider released on the Nonesuch/New Amsterdam labels, which has garnered high acclaim from the New York Times, Boston Globe, NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’ and elsewhere.

Michael McCormick, originally from Oneida, New York, serves as the Choral Specialist at Princeton University. He graduated from Westminster Choir College with a B.M. in Music Education (summa cum laude) where he was named an Andrew J. Rider Scholar, and received an M.M. in Choral Conducting from Rutgers University where he was awarded a Robert E. Mortensen Fellowship. In addition to his work at Princeton, Michael serves as the Music Director and Organist at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Basking Ridge, NJ and Music Director of Ars Musica Chorale in Ridgewood, NJ.

An experienced choral singer, Michael has performed with some of the leading choirs and orchestras in the United States, such as the Westminster Choir, Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Orchestra of St. Luke’s. His collaborations also include professional engagements with Spoleto Festival USA, Downtown Voices, Norfolk Chamber Choir, St. Bartholomew’s Church NYC, and St. Vincent Ferrer Church NYC. His solo engagements include works by Joseph Haydn, Arthur Honegger, Lili Boulanger, and Claude Debussy with the Rutgers University Kirkpatrick Choir and Glee Club, and Riverside Choral Society. As a conductor, he has served as a Conducting Fellow at the International Conductor Training Program at University of Cincinnati, Conducting Apprentice at Berkshire Choral International, and will serve as a Conducting Fellow with the Norfolk Chamber Choir at the Yale Summer School of Music in August, 2024.