Accompagnato, bass: For behold, darkness shall cover the earth

Dr. Kent Hatteberg, Artistic Director

The Louisville Chamber Choir was formed in the fall of 2013 by Artistic Director Kent Hatteberg with a mission to present exceptional musical experiences that nurture community appreciation of choral singing through quality performances, recordings, and collaborations. The Louisville Chamber Choir, comprised of musicians drawn from the Louisville Metropolitan Area and beyond, is dedicated to the highest levels of ensemble performance.

The Chamber Choir performs regularly with the Louisville Orchestra to present diverse and exciting works. Recent partnerships include Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms (2013), Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana (2014), Bernstein's Mass (2015), Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (2016), War and Peace, with works by Vaughan Williams, Ives, Schönberg, Monteverdi, and Sebastian Chang (2018), Mozart’s Requiem and Monteverdi’s Vespers (2018), Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (2019), R. Nathaniel Dett’s The Ordering of Moses (2022), and annual performances of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah (2015 – 2019, 2021). They will perform Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3 (Kaddish) with the Louisville Orchestra in March 2023.

The Louisville Chamber Choir's solo performances encompass a wide range of composers from Gabrieli and Byrd to Ēriks Ešenvalds and Eric Whitacre. The Choir presents concerts that engage audiences through technical expertise and emotional expression. Each singer brings his or her musicality and merges it with the other singers to create a synergy between choir, conductor, and audience. Highlights of past performances include many of the great a cappella works, including Poulenc’s Mass in G, Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir, Herbert Howells’s Requiem, Ildebrando Pizzeti’s Messa di Requiem, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G Minor, and Tomas Luis de Victoria’ Missa pro Defunctis, among others. Every December the Singers present a holiday concert. This year’s performance will be Saturday evening, December 17, at 7:30PM at St. James Catholic Church.

The Chamber Choir was selected to perform at the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Southern Division Convention in Raleigh, NC in February 2022. Recently, the Choir partnered with WUOL to record Thomas Tallis’s 40-voice Spem in alium in 360 video and audio, creating a virtual reality experience that married classical choral music with cutting edge technology.

The Louisville Chamber Choir released a Christmas recording in 2017 that has met with widespread acclaim. The recording contains a mixture of familiar seasonal songs with new carols. The Choir will release a recording of sacred music by Thomas Tallis, Felix Mendelssohn, Anton Bruckner, Maurice Duruflé, Wolfram Buchenberg, Michael Waldenby, Nikolai Golovanov, and Kentucky composer Blake Wilson in December 2022.

SOPRANO Won Joo Ahn Brittany Carwile Megan Easton Danielle Firkins Isabella Henley-King Abby Mires Emma Pinkley Erin Shina HANDEL'S MESSIAH PERSONNEL

ALTO Claire Bridges Amy Parker Cuenca Kate Trigger Duffert Jill Felkins Youngeun Kim Carlie Perry Amy Powell Rachel Turnbill

TENOR Judd Burns Tyler Carnes Ricky Lynn Case II Seon Hwan Chu Brytner Evangelista James Layton Ethan Murphey Cory Spalding

BASS Bennett Alldredge Riley Ano Austin Echols Matthew Houston Siwon Kim John W. Mathre Phillip Morgan Benjamin Powell Troy Sleeman Barry Smith