Upcoming Concerts:
2011-2012 New York Concert SeriesSaturday evenings January 28 and March 24, 2012Saint Peter's Church Lexington Avenue at 54th Street, New York City This GSS season will celebrate Gregg's 80th birthday year with lots of performances of Gregg Smith's music! Our brochure will be mailed out in late November and specific program information will be posted right here very soon. GSS Chronology:
GSS is expanding this website to include a Chronology which will list our major musical events year by year with selections from important recordings over 54 years as well as pictures and archival programs. This continuing project starts with our new year-by-year timeline. Visit the GSS Chronology page to see it and check back for updates as we add pictures, audio, and video. About us:
"Gregg Smith is one of the great choral conductors of our time" The Singers are one of the most recorded classical choirs in the world with over 130 albums, cassettes, and CDs produced during their existence. Although the Singers have offered hundreds of workshops for conductors, singers and teachers in the past, the main focus in recent years has been toward composers - mainly in the form of readings. In the past decade they have read nearly 300 new works and performed and recorded 60 of them. read more... GSS is on Facebook!
GSS members, other musicians, and fans are coming together sharing stories, pictures, and more on Facebook, the world's most popular social-networking site. Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life. GSS Legacy Composers Series:The GSS Legacy Composers Series is making a special combination of publications and recordings available to the choral world. For over 50 years the Gregg Smith Singers have been performing American contemporary choral music and have accumulated a treasury of original works written for the GSS, often referred to as "signature works." Many of these works will appear in this publication series, and some on CDs as well. Most of the composers, whose styles and sounds vary greatly, have worked with GSS and their choral writing expertise has been impacted in practical and unique ways. It is hoped that the combination of recording and publication will give impetus to the performance of this music - will get it into the choral mainstream, and display its viability, practicality and appeal to audiences and performers alike. The National Endowment for the Arts, through its Artistic Excellence award, has provided initial funding for this project. |
Michael Rickelton, a Ph.D. candidate at the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University, has been announced as the winner of the second Gregg Smith National Choral Competition Contest in the Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA). Read More... Walter died on October 10, 2010 after a year-long battle with cancer. How we will miss him — not only for his incredible singing, but because he was such a wonderful human being. He came to NYC fresh out of University of Michigan, joined GSS in the early 70s and, with the exception of couple of years off while he was in the old "Met Studio," he sang in every US tour (and was also our stage manager) and over a dozen international tours, every New York concert, made nearly 50 recordings with GSS and spent over 30 summers with us at AFAM. In September Walt taped almost an hour for our online GSS Oral History. Wait until you hear the stories! Please Donate.Over the past five years we have received generous awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. With each, comes the responsibility of matching the grant. Please show your support.
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