VISION: To heal our world through music and wordsWednesday Feb 22, 2012Welcome to our 2011-2012 Season

    In the News

    PUBLISH DATE: 12/16/11
    NEWS: Chamber Orchestra, Choral Project present a musical gift with 'Celtica'
    DESCRIPTION: The San Jose Chamber Orchestra and The Choral Project have made a happy tradition of teaming up at the holidays for "Winter's Gifts," an annual concert.
    SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News
    WRITER(S): Heather Zimmerman

    PUBLISH DATE: 5/31/11
    NEWS: The Choral Project
    DESCRIPTION: Joyful sounds poured forth from the Center for Spiritual Living in Willow Glen on a recent Sunday morning. Performing a variety of songs for those assembled was a local choral group with international experience.
    SOURCE: Pindabble.com
    WRITER(S): Matt Baxter

    PUBLISH DATE: 12/20/10
    NEWS: Annual 'Winter's Gifts' orchestral-choral collaboration adds handbells this year
    DESCRIPTION: Despite the weekend's deluge, the seventh annual "Winter's Gifts" holiday program was a sellout Sunday night at Mission Santa Clara. Folks have grown smitten with this inventive musical event, a collaboration of the San Jose Chamber Orchestra and the San Jose-based chorus known as the Choral Project, whose 40 voices caress the ears -- a sonic loving touch.
    SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News
    WRITER(S): Richard Scheinin

    PUBLISH DATE: 7/01/08
    NEWS: Choral Project "Across the Universe"
    DESCRIPTION: The next season of San Jose’s Choral Project is building up to a global-plus event, titled “Across the Universe,” and consists of music made popular in film, television, radio, and theater. No strict classicists, these singers will present favorites by Billy Joel, the Beatles, Imogen Heap, James Taylor, and others. That will be a year from now, at the Montgomery Theater.
    SOURCE: San Francisco Classical Voice
    WRITER(S): Janos Gereben

    PUBLISH DATE: 12/15/07
    NEWS: S.J. Chamber Orchestra, Choral Project bring gift of Light
    DESCRIPTION: Light, guarding against the darkness. That was the theme of the weekend's holiday program by the San Jose Chamber Orchestra and the Choral Project, and, boy, did light ever win out over the cold and the gloom of the season.
    SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News
    WRITER(S): Richard Scheinin

    PUBLISH DATE: 10/02/07
    NEWS: An Eye-opening Show - Choral Project's Willingness To Take Chances Pays Off In Concert
    DESCRIPTION: One mission of the 45-singer Choral Project is to engage audiences, as the South Bay group proved again Friday with its season opener at Christ the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in San Jose. Those who like compelling performances of unfamiliar music could only commend the 18-piece program, which was repeated Saturday. Many of the devoted followers of the group Daniel Hughes founded in 1996 are singers who wish they had the time or talent to be in a group this good.
    SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News
    WRITER(S): Colin Seymour

    PUBLISH DATE: 7/11/07
    NEWS: Congrats
    DESCRIPTION: The Choral Project, the wonderful San Jose-based ensemble led by artistic director Daniel Hughes, took home three awards at the California International Choral Festival & Competition in San Luis Obispo on July 1.
    SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News
    WRITER(S): Sal Pizarro

    PUBLISH DATE: 12/12/06
    NEWS: The Rollercoaster Of War, Peace & Christmas
    DESCRIPTION: The San Jose Chamber Orchestra and a vocal group called The Choral Project combined on “Winter Gifts: Peace,” presumably as a goal to be yearned for. This spotlighted the masterful English cantata “Dona Nobis Pacem” (1937) offering a seminal trans-Atlantic linkage of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams and poet Walt Whitman. The two never met, but still appeared to communicate superbly.
    SOURCE: Arts SF
    WRITER(S): D. Rane Danubian

    PUBLISH DATE: 12/12/06
    NEWS: ‘Songbird’ Oratorio Filled With Power
    DESCRIPTION: Did you hear the one about the soap actor -- the guy who used to be on "General Hospital'' and "Another World'' -- who's starring in a Buddhist oratorio about an eagle and a songbird that save the world? Sounds like a joke, right? It's not. The actor is Jordan Charney and the oratorio (sort of) is ``The Songbird and the Eagle,'' which turns out to be a charming and beautifully scored new work by composer Kim D. Sherman and librettist Rick Davis. It had its world premiere performances over the weekend, courtesy of the San Jose Chamber Orchestra and the Choral Project, and I wish I could see it again.
    SOURCE: San JOse Mercury News
    WRITER(S): Richard Scheinin