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With the vision of building global harmony through performance and education, Quire Cleveland is dedicated to exploring, preserving, and breathing new life into nine centuries of extraordinary choral music.
This professional choir’s vibrant performance of choral music both ancient and new reveals the timeless humanity of this art form. Under the artistic direction of Jay White, Quire Cleveland makes life more harmonious by introducing audiences to choral music not heard in the modern era - including modern premieres of a cappella works newly discovered or reconstructed.
The members of Quire Cleveland are highly-trained musicians, collectively representing 500 years of choral experience. Through concerts, recordings, broadcasts, and more than 850,000 views on Youtube, Quire reaches people in 217 countries around the world.
During the past decade, Quire Cleveland has presented 77 concerts and produced eight CDs of music from the 12th to the 21st centuries. Founding Artistic Director Ross W. Duffin, a prize-winning musicologist, created unique editions for Quire, and programs that have been celebrated as imaginative, appealing, and accessible, showcasing the beauty of the music and the glorious sound of voices raised in harmony.
Since 2008, Quire Cleveland has earned both critical and popular acclaim for their “stunning panache” (ClevelandClassical.com) and “rich mosaic of music” (Early Music America Magazine), as they “combine stylistic truth with vocal elegance” (Cleveland Plain Dealer).
Now, at the end of its 10th season (2018), Quire Cleveland is looking ahead to the future, with new leadership and renewed commitment. Incoming Artistic Director Jay White brings to his position more than 35 years of choral experience, including eight seasons with the internationally acclaimed ensemble, Chanticleer. With graduate degrees from the Early Music Institute at Indiana University and the University of Maryland, he is currently professor of voice at Kent State University. |
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Margaret Carpenter Haigh
Kristine Caswelch
Sarah Coffman
Wendy Duncan
Melanie Emig
Donna Fagerhaug
Ellen Hargis (guest)
Megan Lapp
Eileen Moore
Elena Mullins
Judith Overcash
Lisa Rainsong
Malina Rauschenfels
Gail West |
Merav Eldan
Leslie Frye
Megan Kaes Long
John McElliott
Ann Mullin
Joseph Schlesinger
Beverly Simmons
Jay White |
Evan Bescan
Nathan Dougherty
Peter Hampton
Jeremiah Heilman
Bryan Munch
Corey Shotwell
Tyler Skidmore
Brian Wentzel |
Jonathan Cooper
Ian Crane
Daniel Fridley
Anthony Gault
José Gotera
Nathan Longnecker
Ray Lyons
Brian MacGilvray
John McElliott
Michael McKay
Michael Peters
Daniel Singer |
