Chanticleer
Sing JoyfullyTwelve voices coalesce in a seamless chorus with intricate harmonies that uplift and inspire.
2024/25 SeasonRenowned worldwide for their unmatched vocal artistry and captivating stage presence, Chanticleer is named for the "clear-singing" rooster in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . The chorus boasts an expansive vocal range—from countertenor and tenor to baritone and bass—and a repertoire that spans centuries—from Gregorian chant, Renaissance polyphony and Romantic art song to contemporary music, jazz, spirituals and world music. Join and be swept away on a breathtaking musical journey beneath the beautiful arches of Rollins Chapel. The program includes Renaissance motets by William Byrd and Heinrich Isaac, classic arrangements of familiar folk songs like Shenandoah and Calling my children home , settings of the jazz standards Blue Skies and Lost in the Stars, as well as contemporary arrangements of Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now and Queen's Somebody to Love .
Chanticleer's acclaimed Music Director Emeritus Joseph H. Jennings received the Brazeal Wayne Dennard Award for his contribution to the African American choral tradition during his tenure with the ensemble.
Funded in part by the Anonymous Fund No. 136, the John M. Tiedtke 1930 Visting Performing Artists Fund, and the Marion and Frederick B. Whittemore 1953 Distinguished Artists Series.
Photo: Stephen K. Mack
The Grammy award-winning vocal ensemble is known around the world as "an orchestra of voices" for its wide-ranging repertoire and dazzling virtuosity. Founded in San Francisco in 1978 by singer and musicologist Louis Botto, Chanticleer quickly took its place as one of the most prolific recording and touring ensembles in the world, selling over one million recordings and performing thousands of live concerts to audiences around the world.
Chanticleer's repertoire is rooted in the renaissance and has continued to expand to include a wide range of classical, gospel, jazz, popular music and a deep commitment to the commissioning of new compositions and arrangements. The ensemble has committed much of its vast recording catalogue to these commissions, garnering Grammy awards for its recording of Sir John Tavener's Lamentations & Praises , and the ambitious collection of commissioned works entitled Colors of Love. Chanticleer is the recipient of the Dale Warland/Chorus America Commissioning Award and the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming.
Chanticleer continues to maintain ambitious programming in its hometown of San Francisco, including a large education and outreach program that recently reached over 8,000 people, and an annual concert series that includes its legendary holiday tradition "A Chanticleer Christmas."
2024/25 Season
2024/25 Season
“...breathtaking in its accuracy of intonation, purity of blend, variety of color and swagger of style.”
The Boston Globe
“The world’s reigning male chorus.”
The New Yorker
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29 College StreetHanover, NH
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Located adjacent to the northeast corner of the Dartmouth Green.
