Artistic Director Robert Istad and the Long Beach Camerata Singers are seeking singers for all voice parts to join their 2013-2014 concert season. Auditions are Saturday, June 15, 2013 from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. in the Social Hall at Christ Lutheran Church, located at 6500 Stearns Street, Long Beach, CA 90815.

 

Prospective singers should prepare an aria or art song that is no longer than five minutes in duration (memorization is not required) and expect to participate in a sight-reading exercise. Those auditioning are required to bring two copies of their own sheet music in the correct key, one for themselves and one for the provided accompanist.

 

Auditions are by appointment only and can be scheduled online at www.longbeachcameratasingers.org, or via phone at (562) 522-1045.

 

Programming for the 2013-2014 season includes a celebratory concert entitled Singers’ Choice in which the singers select the program from 40 years of repertoire, Handel’s Messiah, J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion, Broadway show tune favorites, and much more!

 

Robert Istad is the Artistic Director of Long Beach Camerata Singers and the Long Beach Bach Festival. He is also the Director of Choral Studies at California State University, Fullerton where he conducts the University Singers and Women’s Choir in addition to teaching courses in conducting, advanced interpretation and literature. Istad has prepared choruses for Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Carl St. Clair and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew David and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, as well as conductors Bramwell Tovey, Eric Whitacre, Giancarlo Guerrero, Marin Alsop, George Fenton, John Alexander, William Dehning, John DuPrez, David Lockington, and Mark Manderano. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral music at the University of Southern California, is the Assistant Conductor of the Pacific Chorale, and is in demand as an adjudicator and guest clinician throughout the United States.

 

Long Beach Camerata Singers is a 501(c)3 non-profit, 80-voice choir that has provided Long Beach residents with high-quality choral music for more than 46 years.  Currently under the artistic direction of Dr. Robert Istad, Director of Choral Studies at CSU Fullerton and Assistant Director of the Pacific Chorale, the choir presents 8 concerts a year, including a fully-orchestrated performance of Handel’s Messiah and an annual Bach Festival. Repertoire encompasses a wide range of works from the Renaissance to the present.  Though its roots are in classical music, more contemporary choral works, jazz, Broadway and popular tunes have been added in recent years to broaden audience appeal. 

 

For more information about Long Beach Camerata Singers, please visit us at www.longbeachcameratasingers.org or call (562) 522-1045. To stay connected with us, join our social networks at www.facebook.com/cameratasingers or www.twitter.com/lbcamerata.