Making musical history ~
performing today's music now!
The Adesso Choral Society is a select chamber chorus that places special emphasis on performing new music by living composers.
Founded in 2001 by director
Margaret Collins Stoop, Adesso has performed music of many eras and genres at concerts throughout the Fairfield County, CT area. Programs have included new works from local composers including Allen Brings, Michael La Barre, Robert Baksa,
Evelyn Avoglia and Margaret Collins Stoop, as well as newly arranged folks songs from South Africa, Korea, England, Appalachia, Finland and North Argentina. Seminal works by Kodaly, Mozart, Bach, Thompson and Faure have also been performed.
Looking forward
to next season
Adesso will be in Ballard Park on
October 2 for Ridgefield's Cultural Art Festival. This will be a great day in the park where Ridgefield's fine arts organizations showcase their talents.
In January 2011 Adesso will be appearing once again in the resonant Jesse Lee Church to present a concert of works for women's voices, including works by composers Ronald Perera, Meg Stoop, and Pablo Casals.
On May 1, 2011 composers from Long Island and Connecticut will find common ground in Manhattan as Adesso presents a special collaboration between members of Long Island Composers Alliance and Connecticut Composers, Inc. The concert will feature all new works written for Adesso by composers from both organizations, setting the words of American women writers. This concert will be May 1, 2011 at Park Avenue Methodist Church, 86th St and Park Ave., NYC.
On May 28, 2011 Adesso will sing in Carnegie Hall as part of a massed choir. Conductor/composer Jenni Brandon will lead the singers in a premiere performance of one of her own compositions as well as
Randall Thompson's Testament of Freedom.
Visit the Contact Page to read a
special appeal from Adesso's director
