Entries by Communications Chair
From the Director: Journeys
Dear friends, Ensemble Companio’s ability to exist at all is anchored to a pervasive sense of hospitality and trust in one another. We are a widespread community, and during our rehearsal weekends together we are—more often than not—guests in someone else’s home. This is true in both literal and metaphorical senses; choral singing is, on […]
Why I Sing: A Message from the President
Dear friends, We close the first half of this season’s concert, Journeys, with one of my favorites: Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to St. Cecilia. My introduction to this piece was also my introduction to choral singing, when I joined the university choir in my first semester of college. I have to confess that I only signed […]
From the Director: Failed Saints
Dear friends, Art never exists in a vacuum; it is intimately tied to the human context in which it is made and observed. Choral music only comes into existence through the voices of living, breathing, phonating human beings – in Ensemble Companio’s case, twenty-five highly skilled singers with twenty-five sets of life experiences who converge […]
Failed Saints: A Message from the President
Dear friends, On behalf of Ensemble Companio, I hope you are having a wonderful Fall! While you were enjoying the crisp autumn air – and pumpkin spice everything – we began our eighth season with rehearsal retreats in New York and Pennsylvania. We welcomed five new Companios into the fold, and set about the process of […]
From Winter to The Greening: A Message from the President
Dear friends, A belated Happy New Year to you all! I hope your 2018 is off to a great start. I have so much excitement and wonder as I pause to reflect upon the year to come with Ensemble Companio! We recently kicked off our first rehearsal of 2018 in the Boston metro area – […]
From the Director: An invitation to The Greening
Dear friends, On this shortest day of the year, it is with great joy that I write to you for the first time – and about the season’s music, no less! Reflecting on repertoire over this past summer, themes of reincarnation kept insistently rising to the surface. This year clearly marks a new beginning for […]
New Beginnings: A message from Ensemble Companio
Dear friends, A new season is upon us, and with that, some new faces and new beginnings! My name is Mikey Steiger, and after four seasons of singing in the tenor section, I am joining the Board as the third President of Ensemble Companio (I’ll still moonlight as a tenor […]
Introducing Our New Artistic Director: A Special Message from the President
Dear Friends, I hope you are all doing well, and enjoying time outside in the gorgeous warm weather we’re having! It gives me great pleasure to announce that Ensemble Companio has chosen Erik Peregrine as our new Artistic Director. In his own words: I am overjoyed to be joining the Ensemble Companio family and to […]