The Florilegium Chamber Choir of New York City is seeking a new music director, the third in its almost four decades of existence.  Nicholas DeMaison, our current music director (http://nicholasdemaison.com/) has just accepted responsibility for the music performance organizations at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, wonderful for him but leaving us leaderless. As you can learn and hear on our website, florilegiumchamberchoir.org, we sing a challenging and eclectic repertoire, from masters of the Italian Renaissance through contemporary music we have ourselves commissioned, often a capella but also with organ, piano, or chamber accompaniment.  Our roughly thirty members, many of whom have been with the choir for a decade or more, are drawn from the greater metropolitan area.  We rehearse Monday evenings on the Upper West Side, with Sunday afternoon concerts in mid-November, early March, and late May at Trinity Lutheran Church, a congenial acoustic space with a fine, recently restored pipe organ.   Our four years with Dr. DeMaison have brought us far, and we are looking for the director who will take us farther.

 

If you think this might be you, please email a statement of interest and a current resume to info@florilegiumchamberchoir.org,   In addition to your experience in choral and other conducting, we'd like to know about the repertoire you would be most interested to present, your other present commitments, any choral composing you might be doing, and the duration of a relationship with us you would find most appealing.  To permit us better to learn about each other, our present expectation is to ask a few applicants to conduct two or three rehearsals each in the fall, using some combination of repertoire they have chosen and repertoire the choir has chosen, in order to select our new music director by the end of the calendar year, to prepare our March and May concerts.