The Crossing (choral ensemble)
| The Crossing | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Genres | Chorus |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Website | crossingchoir |
| Members | Jessica Beebe, Graham Bier, Julie Bishop, Kelly Ann Bixby, Karen Blanchard, Steven Bradshaw, Maren Montalbano Brehm, Veronica Chapman-Smith, Peter Christian, Malcolm Cooper, Scott Dettra, Colin Dill, Micah Dingler, Ryan Fleming, Joanna Gates, Steven Gearhart, Fiona Gillespie, John Grecia, Levi Hernandez, Barbara Hill, Rebecca Myers Hoke, Steven Hyder, Heather Kayan, Kevin Krasinski, Heidi Kurtz, Ken Lovett, Jeffrey Manns, Louis Menendez, Vincent Metallo, Frank Mitchell, Donald Nally, Dan O'Dea, Rebecca Oehlers, Ellen Grace Peters, James Reese, Daniel Schwartz, Rebecca Siler, Jennah Delp Somers, Stephen Spinelli, Daniel Spratlan, Elisa Sutherland, Dan Taylor, Karen Wapner, Laura Ward, Jackson Williams, Shari Alise Wilson |
The Crossing is an American professional chamber choir, conducted by Donald Nally and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It focuses on new music, commission and premiere works, and collaborates with various venues and instrumental ensembles.
Consistently recognized in critical reviews, in 2014, the ensemble was hailed as "ardently angelic" by the Los Angeles Times and "something of a miracle" by The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Formed by a group of friends in 2005, the ensemble has since grown and according to The New York Times in 2014, "has made a name for itself in recent years as a champion of new music".
The choir was the resident choir of the Spoleto Festival, Italy, in 2007; appeared at Miller Theatre of Columbia University in the American premiere of James Dillon's Nine Rivers with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE); joined Bang on a Can's first Philadelphia Marathon; and has appeared with the American Composers Orchestra, Network for New Music, Lyric Fest, Piffaro, red fish blue fish, Tempesta di Mare Baroque Chamber Orchestra, PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Toshimaru Nakamura, Dolce Suono, and in the summer of 2013, The Rolling Stones.
The ensemble has sung in venues including the Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; it made its Lincoln Center debut in July 2014 in a world premiere of a composition by John Luther Adams in a collaboration with the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, eighth blackbird, JACK Quartet, and TILT Brass.
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