The Ann Stookey Fund for New Music today announced that it has awarded a grant in the amount of $25,000 to underwrite the commissioning of a new choral work by Gregory Spears (
www.gregoryspears.com).
The new work, written for a consortium of choirs, will be a cantata for mixed choir and chamber ensemble, approximately 30 minutes in length, and will premiere during the 2018-19 performance seasons of the four choral organizations in the consortium - The Crossing, Volti, Cantori New York, and Notre Dame Vocale.
Spears attended the Eastman School of Music, earned a master's degree at Yale, and took his Ph.D. at Princeton. Of his recent work,
The Wall Street Journal said, "Mr. Spears writes brilliantly for vocal ensembles."
The Philadelphia Inquirer said his "Requiem" bore "a modern sense of theatrical timing that keeps your ears on edge until the last note."
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