For Immediate Release:
Contact: Dennis Houser: 909 224-6166
Prescott Chorale Joins the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel Choir
on September 21-24, 2017 for a unique performance at the
Detroit Opera House, in Detroit, Michigan
Special relationship with Prescott Chorale’s artistic director, Dennis Houser, led to the Sistine Chapel Choir’s invitation.
FromSeptember 21-24, members of the Prescott Chorale, under the baton of Dennis Houser, will be in Detroit, Michigan, to perform with the Sistine Chapel Choir in the beautifully-restored Detroit Opera House. After a 31-year absence from the United States, the Sistine Chapel Choir is being sent to the city of Detroit by Pope Francis to honor its remarkable renaissance. The coordinator for this unique event had worked with Maestro Houser during a previous concert tour and knew the high quality of his choral work. That reputation and subsequent recordings from the Prescott Chorale’s 2016 concert tour of Spain elicited this special invitation.
The Sistine Chapel Choir, also known as “The Pope’s Choir” is the oldest religious choral group in the world, having been established in the seventh century. Currently consisting of 22 adult men and 30 boy singers, this ensemble sings for the pope’s liturgies. As the Sistine Chapel Choir rarely leaves Rome, its presence in Detroit is a remarkable honor to that city.The opportunity to sing with this historical group is one which very few choirs have been given.
On Saturday, October 14 at 3 p.m. Prescott Chorale opens its four-concert season with “The First Art----Music Gives Voice to the Soul”, followed by the Chorale’s annual Christmas concerts on December 9 at 3 and 7:30 p.m. On April 21, the Chorale presents“Inspiring Music: Heroes and History,”and on June 9, closes the season with a “Return to Dresden” prior to the Chorale’s departure for its 2018 concert tour of Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. All concerts will take place at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. For tickets and further information on Prescott Chorale, go toprescottchorale.org
The mission of Prescott Chorale is to provide our diverse audiences an opportunity to experience choral music in all styles, composition periods and great composers thus drawing on the deep choral skill of our singers to enhance each season’s selections.
Dennis Houser, Prescott Chorale Musical Director has a career that spans over 55 years of singing, teaching and conducting. Dennis is no stranger to the stage, be it here in Prescott, California, Europe, South America, or the Far East.He has conducted the Master Chorale of Yavapai College, the Yavapai College Chamber Singers and the Camerata Singers of Prescott. Heis the Choirmaster of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Prescott.
For tickets and further information on Prescott Chorale concerts, tours, sample recordings, and other items of interest, go toprescottchorale.org