Country representing: United States
Number of performers in the whole group: 40
Group website: https://web.csulb.edu/colleges/cota/music/areas/choral-studies/choirs.php
Competitions Participating In: Mixed Choirs, Open Choirs, Adult Folk Song Choirs
Biography:
The Bob Cole Conservatory Chamber Choir is the premier choral ensemble at CSULB. Described by composer Eric Whitacre as “The gold standard of American University Choirs“, the ensemble was named “Choir of the World” in 2016 at the Welsh National Eisteddfod.
Group Activities
Comprised of the top singers at the University, the Chamber Choir tours yearly and has concertized throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and China.
The Chamber Choir is committed to performing the greatest works from the choral canon and premieres by composers both emerging and world famous.
The Choir performed at the National Collegiate Choral Organization Conferences at Yale in 2009, at the College of Charleston in 2013, at the American Choral Directors Association National Conference in 2021, and at Western ACDA Conventions in 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2022.
Group Members
Alumni of the Chamber Choir are teaching K-12 music in schools throughout California, running collegiate choral programs of nationwide importance and leading worship in church and synagogue. They are currently under contract as singers with the Metropolitan, San Francisco, Wolf Trapp, Cincinnati, and Los Angeles Opera.
Since its inception in 1949, the Bob Cole Conservatory Chamber Choir has been conducted by a distinguished line of nationally recognized conductors. Including Frank Pooler, Ed Thompson, Leland Vail, Lynn Bielefelt, and, since 2000, Jonathan Talberg.
