intimate experiences in unusual locations. The 2019-20 seasons opens with a Salon
Series performance of Trade Winds at the Spaulding Marine Center in Sausalito, and
continues with Inside Chanticleer, a 5-part, one of a kind look behind Chanticleer’s
music.
With the help of individual contributions, government, foundation and corporate
support, Chanticleer’s education programs engaged over 8,000 last season. Primary
and middle school students have received special attention, and Chanticleer’s Louis
A. Botto (LAB) Choir activities reach hundreds of high schoolers each year. Other
activities of Chanticleer’s award winning education program include workshops
given around the country as the ensemble tours, : Youth Choral Festivals™ in the Bay
Area and around the country; Skills/LAB–an intensive summer workshop for 50 high
school students; master classes for university students nationwide. Chanticleer’s
educational programs were recognized with the 2010 Chorus America Education
Outreach Award.
Since the group began releasing recordings in 1981, it has sold well over a million
albums and won two GRAMMY® awards. Chanticleer’s recordings are distributed
by Warner Classics, Chanticleer Records, Naxos, ArkivMusic, Amazon, and iTunes
among others, and are available on Chanticleer’s website: www.chanticleer.org.
“Then and there, Here and Now” Chanticleer’s most recent studio recording, was
recorded for Warner Classics.
In 2014 Chorus America conferred the inaugural Brazeal Wayne Dennard Award
on Chanticleer’s Music Director Emeritus Joseph H. Jennings to acknowledge his
contribution to the African-American choral tradition during his 25-year (1983-
2009) tenure as singer and music director with Chanticleer. The hundred plus
arrangements of African-American gospel, spirituals and jazz made by Jennings
for Chanticleer have been given thousands of performances worldwide—live and
on broadcast—and have been recorded by Chanticleer for Warner Classics and
Chanticleer Records.
Chanticleer’s long-standing commitment to commissioning and performing new
works was honored in 2008 by the inaugural Dale Warland/Chorus America
Commissioning Award and the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous
Programming. Among the over sixty composers commissioned are Mark Adamo,
Matthew Aucoin, Mason Bates, Régis Campo, Chen Yi, David Conte, Shawn Crouch,
Douglas J. Cuomo, Brent Michael Davids, Anthony Davis, Gabriela Lena Frank, Guido
López-Gavilán, Stacy Garrop, William Hawley, John Harbison, Jake Heggie, Jackson Hill,
Kamran Ince, Jeeyoung Kim, Tania León, Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, Michael McGlynn, Peter
Michaelides, Nico Muhly, John Musto, Tarik O’Regan, Roxanna Panufnik, Stephen
Paulus, Shulamit Ran, Bernard Rands, Steven Sametz, Carlos Sanchez-Guttierez, Jan
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