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About the Choir
Anne,
Toby and Marion at the annual Madrigal
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When Anne Boyer Cotten invited a handful of people into her dining room to sing a cappella tunes in 1978, she never dreamed it would become the dynamic, well-respected ensemble it is today.
"It was totally grass roots," says the founder and director of The Madrigal Choir of Binghamton. "After about two years, we started seeing this was serious stuff--we were good performers."
Now, twenty-six years later, with a tightly woven, intimate ensemble of 40-or-so members singing in any given concert, TMCB is better than good. Under the leadership of founding director Anne Boyer Cotten, the not-for-profit choir performs sacred and secular a cappella works in concerts throughout upstate New York. TMCB was one of four performance ensembles invited to appear for the Showcase for the Statewide Arts Conference of the Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations held in Ithaca in October 2000. In June of 2001 they were the featured choral ensemble at the Region II convention of the American Guild of Organists where they premiered a new work by Alice Parker.
Interested in becoming a part of it? Singers are chosen by audition for their ability to blend into exquisite ensemble sound. Any experienced choral singer with sight reading ability may audition for TMCB by calling director Anne Boyer Cotten at 607-723-1227.
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