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About Los Robles Master Chorale
Los Robles Master Chorale is a 100-voice community choral ensemble serving Ventura and western Los Angeles counties. Throughout its 34-year history, the organization has routinely presented works of the standard repertoire as well as contemporary choral works, world and west coast premieres. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lesley Leighton since 2008, the choir has expanded not only its vision and personnel, but also its audience base and board membership. LRMC works continuously to expand its horizons in both the repertoire it performs and the contribution it makes to the rich choral traditions of the southern California region.
The chorale's 2011-12 season includes four concerts spotlighting a wide array of choral music from every corner of the globe. The season opens with Holiday Treasures, the chorale's family-focused performance that offers seasonal favorites, includes audience participation on a number of popular carols, and welcomes the Ascension Lutheran Handbell Choir. A second seasonal concert, Holiday Presence, features carols from many lands-including Latvia, France, China, Venezuela, and Africa-as well as a Bach Chorale revisited in a setting by Knut Nystedt and John Rutter's Gloria. The chorale will welcome in spring with Zimbe!, a joint concert with Los Robles Children's Choir, as LRCC artistic director Donna Young conducts selections by John Rutter and Lesley Leighton conducts Alexander L'Estrange's brilliant fusion of traditional African song and jazz quintet. The chorale's season will close with Mostly Mozart, featuring the Mozart Requiem, Haydn Te Deum, and Verdi Stabat Mater, as well as the world premiere of the winning composition in LRMC's second annual Young Artist Choral Composers Competition, which offers a cash prize and the promise of performance for the winning composition by a southern California composer under the age of 35.
Los Robles Master Chorale has also been invited to take part in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's The Mahler Project and will join the Philharmonic, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, and other area choruses in a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 8, "Symphony of a Thousand," conducted by Gustavo Dudamel at the Shrine Auditorium on Saturday, February 4, 2012. Extending its leadership and presence in the community, LRMC also performs regularly at the University Village retirement community and will host its third High School Choral Festival in March 2012. In October 2011, LRMC sponsored its second Choral Leadership Workshop for serious high school choral singers.
As the pre-eminent chorus in Ventura County, Los Robles Master Chorale often collaborates with such world-class choral composers as Morten Lauridsen and Shawn Kirchner, creating fresh insight into the interpretations of their works. The group has given west coast premieres of works by John Tavener, Franz Biebl, Matthew Brown, Wilbur Skeels, Bruce Vandervalk, Jane Chapman, Melanie McCoy, and Steve Eisle, in addition to world premieres of works by John Rutter, Christina Whitten Thomas, Lauren McLaren and Lesley Leighton, and has hosted such distinguished guest conductors as Roger Wagner, Sir David Willcocks, Paul Salamunovich, Vance George and Lloyd Pfautsch. The chorale has traveled on six international tours to Helsinki, Paris, Salzburg, London, Rome, Florence, and Prague, performing in Notre Dame Cathedral, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Salzburg Cathedral, Basilica San Marco, the Duomo di Santa Maria del Fiore, Basilica Santa Maria Maggiiore, and Dvorak Hall.
Mission Statement
Los Robles Master Chorale serves the community with quality performances of choral music that seek to entertain and enlighten audiences. Singers also interact with the community through educational outreach activities that endeavor to stimulate an interest in the arts among young people. As the Chorale works to preserve southern California's strong tradition in the choral art, it hopes to create new traditions by exploring new music and fresh modes of expression.
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