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The Boston Choral Ensemble provides opportunities for singers and audiences to enjoy and learn about challenging, high-quality choral music.

We are an auditioned choir of no more than 32 mixed voices. Our programs are varied and engage membership and audiences both intellectually and emotionally. In recent years, programs have included musical monuments like Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil (Vespers) and Part’s seldom-heard Passion, as well as 20th century classics like Swayne’s Magnificat or Fine’s The Hour-Glass. We have also performed masterworks of the Renaissance such as Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices and Lassus’s Lagrime di San Pietro, and other works by composers such as Britten, Distler, Howells, Josquin, Miskinis, Poulenc, Schutz, Tallis, and Victoria. For a complete listing of past seasons, visit this page.

BCE Announces Winner of Commission Competition

BOSTON – December 21, 2009 – The Boston Choral Ensemble is pleased to announce the winner of its third annual Commission Competition: Armenian composer and conductor Vahram Sargsyan. A native of Armenia’s capital city, Yerevan, Sargsyan has been awarded numerous prizes for his choral, orchestral, and chamber works, which have been performed throughout Europe and North America. He is also an active member of the Armenian choral community, serving as conductor of the newly-formed New Youth Choir and the Armenian Chamber Voices.

See the winner and honorable mentions,
read the press release on our blog,
and learn more about the competition.

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BCE Receives Grant to Continue Community Outreach

BOSTON—The Boston Choral Ensemble is pleased to announce the receipt of a $1000 grant from the Certified Public Accountants and Business Advisors (CCR) Charitable Foundation to support their outreach efforts in the greater Boston community.

The CCR Charitable Foundation was founded in 2004 to enhance the charitable giving of the CCR and to support organizations that are part of their employees’ lives. Through the foundation, the CCR sponsors and donates toward charitable, arts, and civic organizations throughout New England in keeping with their mission to “give back to the communities where we live and work.” Through supporting these communities, CCR seeks to “help those that are less fortunate and to support the greater good.” [...]

Read the rest of the release on NOTA BENE, BCE’s blog.

BCE Joins Forces

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The Boston Choral Ensemble

VILLAROSA
A Rousing Success

With some of our biggest audiences ever, BCE's North American Premiere of Jennefelt's Villarosa Sequences was a resounding success! If you were there and want to share your thoughts, visit the ArtsBoston page.