Talking Choral Music- A Professional Choral Singer's Life

What does it take to make it in New York? Newly released Episode 4 of the YouTube interview series Talking Choral Music features four professional singers who have made a living singing choral music. Hosted by Andrea Goodman, director of the Cantilena Chamber Choir in Western Massachusetts, “Talking Choral Music” features noted composers, conductors and business leaders in the choral community.

Join four professional choral musicians in a lively discussion about making it as paid choral artists in New York City. Nancy Wertsch is a choral contractor, singer and composer who has contracted for the Bard Festival, the Verbier Festival under the baton of James Levine, the New York Virtuoso singers under the baton of Harold Rosenbaum and more. Mukund and Mary Marathe had very long associations with the Gregg Smith Singers and many other professional choruses in New York. Roosevelt Credit was featured as a “Fisherman” in the 2012 Tony Award Winning and Grammy Nominated Production of The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess on Broadway. He has performed on and off Broadway, playing several roles in the Tony Award winning and national touring companies of Harold Prince’s Show Boat and also performs in churches and professional choruses in the city. Together they share what skills have been necessary to get work, and how to survive when the “gigs” are far and few between. Their stories are fascinating and inspirational to every singer trying to make it in a big city.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EPkQXGnzf0

New videos are be released every two weeks. Up next on November 27th- Musica Russica music publisher Vladimir Morosan tells us of the passion he has for Russian choral music and how he has so successfully been able to share it with the world..

Andrea Goodman, Director of the Cantilena Chamber Choir, has been a professor of conducting at the New England Conservatory of Music. She has prepared choirs for the Philadelphia Orchestra under Charles Dutoit, and has previously served as the director of the Concord Chorus (Massachusetts), Director of Choirs at Skidmore College and New York University. Guest appearances have included the Aspen Music Festival, the Fribourg Switzerland Festival de Musique Sacree and the Singing World Festival of White Nights in St. Petersburg, Russia. She holds a DMA in Conducting from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and has served on the board of Choral Arts New England.