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Ember Choral Arts is a 501c3 founded in 1995 by Dr. Deborah Simpkin King under the name Schola Cantorum on Hudson.
Based in Manhattan it performs its full season in NYC & NJ, is the home of PROJECT : ENCORE, and sponsors the Ember Ablaze Composer Lab. Ember is the performance ensemble of Ember Choral Arts -- a critically acclaimed choral arts organization, embracing a mission of global cultural impact, and dedicated to engagement in choral art education, evocative-theme-based choral performance, and advocacy of new choral works by living composers.
06/19/2026
Our sincerest thanks to our beloved audiences who came out and supported Ember this past season! The joy of singing for you is truly ours.
This summer, keep an eye out for exclusive video excerpts of last season's Ember performances. Most recently released, as announced a couple of weeks ago: "Nothing was Wrong with Sarah Ray," by the wonderful Mike Rowan, a new endorsement in the PROJECT : ENCORE catalog! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnunJuGhZkM&list=RDCnunJuGhZkM&start_radio=1
06/13/2026
What our Artistic Director is also up to! This weekend -
Please join me tomorrow at 2 pm on WWFM.org - The Classical Network, where I’ll host the award-winning radio show Sounds Choral on composers and where they find their creative inspiration with a focus on Raphael Fusco and his work "An American Requiem." Looking forward to it!!
06/03/2026
So excited to announce one of this quarter’s new endorsements for the PROJECT : ENCORE catalog, Mike Rowan’s “Nothing was Wrong with Sarah Ray.” Ember performed this marvelous piece in March. Take a listen, and enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnunJuGhZkM&list=RDCnunJuGhZkM&start_radio=1
PROJECT : ENCORE is sponsored by Ember and is central to our composer advocacy initiative.
Look for Mike, who runs the Composer Showcase, and myself, on behalf of P:E, this week at the Chorus America conference!
Mike Rowan: Nothing Was Wrong with Sarah Ray Jenna Takach: Alto, Julian Whitley: BassPerformed at St. Malachi's...
05/17/2026
Tonight is the final night to be transported by The New Frontier. 🚀 Takeoff with us at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown, NJ, at 5 pm - four hours and counting!
See you soon!
📅 Sunday, May 17, 2026, 5 pm - St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Morristown, NJ
FREE. Registration required at emberarts.org
It’s here! Ember’s The New Frontier is tonight and Sunday. 💫 On Wednesday, composer Alex Eddington joined rehearsals remotely from Toronto to talk about his piece “A Present from a Small Distant World,” a setting of the text President Jimmy Carter sent to outer space in the Voyager Golden Record along with sounds of nature, musical clips, greetings in 55 languages, and other ephemera selected by a committee headed by Carl Sagan.
What Alex said about his inspiration behind the piece struck a chord in us: “There’s some civilization that might someday find it. I don’t know what the chances of that are, but the hoping that this message will be uncovered in a billion years is what I find so beautiful.”
What is music but a message of something otherwise unsayable, made with the hope that someone will find it? Come hear Alex’s piece and so much more! We can’t wait to see you!
📅 Friday, May 15, 2026, 7:30 pm - St. John’s in the Village, Manhattan
📅 Sunday, May 17, 2026, 5 pm - St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Morristown, NJ
FREE. Registration required at emberarts.org
Ember’s season-ending concerts are May 15, at 7:30 pm in the West Village and May 17, at 5 pm in Morristown - both free! This journey’s on us. 🪐 Register at emberarts.org. Ember Billy Shaw St John's In The Village St. Peter's, Morristown
05/14/2026
Having composers in the room during rehearsals is not something most choirs do - unless that choir is Ember! Crucial to the Ember experience, firsthand communion with the composer reminds us of both the work and serendipity behind every song we sing. Last night Michael Markowski joined us at our rehearsal of his piece “Where the Two Road Cross.”
Written in homage to the 2003 Columbia disaster, when seven astronauts perished during their return to Earth, Markowski’s piece also includes a Bach quote as well as a nod to the 1986 Challenger tragedy, specifically to astronaut Ronald McNair, who’d brought his soprano saxophone along for the ill-fated ride.
Tonight Ember will be joined by Alex Eddington for rehearsal of “A Present from a Small Distant World,” about the time capsule sent to space on the Voyager back in 1977 - and that is still out there, somewhere.
More inspiration to come! Hear it all live this weekend:
📅 Friday, May 15, 2026, 7:30 pm - St. John’s in the Village, Manhattan
📅 Sunday, May 17, 2026, 5 pm - St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Morristown, NJ
🎟️ FREE! Donations always welcome, and registration required at emberarts.org
05/12/2026
Ember’s The New Frontier takes flight THIS Friday with:
✨ “At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners” by Willametta Spencer
✨ “Where the Two Roads Cross” by Michael Markowski
✨ “Da Pacem” by Arvo Pärt
✨ “Stars” by Ēriks Ešenvalds
✨ “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” from Wizard of Oz
and more...
📅 Friday, May 15, 2026, 7:30 pm - St. John’s in the Village, Manhattan
📅 Sunday, May 17, 2026, 5 pm - St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Morristown, NJ
FREE. Registration required at emberarts.org
The countdown to Ember’s final two concerts of the season has begun! 🚀 Join us May 15 at 7:30 in NYC’s West Village and May 17 at 5 in Morristown, NJ. FREE! Register at emberarts.org. Ember St John's In The VillageSt. Peter's, Morristown
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