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New Mexico Symphony Orchestra ChorusAuditions for the 2009-2010 season are over. If you'd like information about auditioning for the chorus in 2010, please click here. The 2009/2010 season marks the 37th anniversary of this highly select, all-volunteer chorus. Under Roger Melone's direction since 1983, the chorus has gained a national reputation. In 1999, the chorus received the Albuquerque Arts Alliance Bravo Award
for Excellence in Musical Performance for its 1998 performances of Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. In 2006, Christopher Seaman, music director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, invited the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra Chorus to perform Mozart’s Requiem with his orchestra at the 2006 Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. Accolades from the audience, conductor, and orchestra were overwhelming, leading to return engagements in 2007 and 2008, to perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Carmina Burana with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Additionally, the Vail Festival has requested a return engagement in 2010. In 2002, the NMSO released Land of Song, the first CD containing recordings exclusively of the NMSO Chorus under the baton of Roger Melone. The volunteer members of the chorus are a diverse group. Among the 92 singers, nineteen are professional musicians working in music-related fields, 40 hold degrees in music and seven maintain private teaching studios. All of the singers have studied voice, are currently studying voice or play an instrument. Some travel from Los Lunas, Edgewood, Santa Fe and Socorro to sing in the chorus. Auditions for the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra Chorus are held each August. Singers must be at least college age to audition. For more information call 505-944-2542 or e-mail us with this form. Roger Melone, director
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