Conspirare's Quarantine Madrigals Creates a Choir of One

This new song cycle gives isolated singers music to build a choir with – a choir of just themselves

"...If the member of a choir sings when no one is around, is there a..."

March 12, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

At Last, a Grammy for Conspirare

CD of Russian music earns Austin choral ensemble its first win

"...For a decade, they've been the Grammy-nominated choral ensemble Conspirare. Now, Craig Hella Johnson's company of voices can finally..."

Feb. 10, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Conspirare Goes to the Barber

The Grammy nominee's new CD of music by Samuel Barber is out

"...Last September, Conspirare presented a concert of vocal music by Samuel Barber..."

Sept. 12, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Conspirare Sings at Matthew Shepard Interment

Austin choral ensemble performed at National Cathedral service

"...Conspirare has garnered many honors through the years, but the..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Conspirare

A PBS special puts you right in the midst of this celebrated choral ensemble

"...is the broadcast premiere of A Company of Voices: Conspirare in Concert on KLRU. If you are already a..."

March 6, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Conspirare Children's Choir: Birdsong for the holidays

Musical Director Nina Revering explains how a trip to the Holocaust Memorial Museum helped connect birdsong with this festive time of year

"...On Dec. 1, the award-winning, 70-member Conspirare Children's Choir will present, for one performance only, its..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

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The Grammy-nominated choir leads off its Legacy of Sound campaign with a seven-figure gift

"...That chorus of hallelujahs you heard last week? Just Conspirare reacting to the news that it was receiving $1..."

April 20, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Conspirare: My favorite year

In a banner year, Conspirare signs with the prestigious Harmonia Mundi label and plans a powerful Long Center debut with the Verdi Requiem

"...shaping up to be a banner year for Austin's choir supreme Conspirare. But the times just keep getting better..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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The Austin choral ensemble's new CD of Tarik O'Regan music is set to captivate the world

"...At the start of the 2007 season, Conspirare captivated audiences in Austin and Houston with a concert..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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As Conspirare's choirs all come together in song, its executive director departs

"...The end of Conspirare's 2008-2009 season had already involved one major change for..."

June 5, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

This Is Who We Are #3: A New Year's Conspirare Classic

A daily affirmation of Austin's creativity from the Chronicle archive

"...A New Year's Conspirare Classic St. Martin's Lutheran Church Jan. 8..."

May 6, 2020 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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Another Grammy nod for Austin's powerhouse choral ensemble

"...times nominated for Grammys. That's the current record for Conspirare, Austin's acclaimed professional choir, with the news that its..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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Tarik O'Regan writes just the kind of lush choral music Conspirare loves to sing

"...If you're questioning why Conspirare would devote the whole of its first concert of..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Conspirare's Hope of Loving

This concert of works by Jake Runestad conveyed a sense of love as a force that soothes, enlightens, and heals

"...To say love was everywhere in Conspirare's first concert of 2019, that it was as pervasive..."

Jan. 25, 2019 Arts Review by Robert Faires

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The esteemed choir scores a Dutch Grammy and support for a new commission

"...month brings a new honor for local choral wonder Conspirare. In May, it was an award from service organization..."

June 4, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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Conspirare has just been awarded $75,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts to explore the question: What in American music makes it American?

"...in American music makes it American? Austin choral ensemble Conspirare has just been awarded $75,000 from the National Endowment..."

May 19, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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Austin's Grammy-nominated choral ensemble releases a new CD of spirituals

"...When Conspirare releases a new CD, you'd best pay attention. The..."

Aug. 26, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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For Austin's sterling choral ensemble Conspirare, the first few months of 2006 has seen concerts here and far away and the release of a new and most comforting CD

"...For Austin's sterling choral ensemble Conspirare, the first few months of 2006 have been not..."

April 28, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

African Children's Choir with Sara Hickman

"...The African Children’s Choir performed in Austin on Sunday, Dec. 7 at Saint..."

Dec. 8, 2014 Photo Gallery

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Austin's celebrated choral ensemble is taping a concert for broadcast on PBS

"...The Conspirare juggernaut rolls on. After racking up two Grammy nominations,..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

They Hear America Singing!

Grammy-nominated Conspirare brings together 600 voices in search of our national sound

"...Africa or Spain? What is the state of the choir in America today?..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Sopranos

New Texas Music Works closed the 2002 New Texas Festival with some tremendously talented ladies -- sopranos from the Conspirare Choir -- singing a variety of material, but for all its warmth, the concert lacked the sustained intensity and interest that is the hallmark of the choir's best work.

"...talented ladies -- sopranos who have sung with the Conspirare Choir over the years -- singing a wide variety..."

June 14, 2002 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Palestrina and Pärt

The penultimate night of the 2001 New Texas Festival saw a reduced Conspirare Choir of 12 singers under the direction of Craig Hella Johnson compare and contrast selections by 16th-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina and 20th-century composer Arvo Pärt in an evening that displayed just how exquisite Johnson's choir is.

"...of this season's New Texas Festival saw a reduced Conspirare Choir of 12 singers under the direction of Craig..."

June 8, 2001 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

What You See Is What You Hear

The joy that Conspirare takes in singing is visible in the choir's PBS special

"...is the broadcast premiere of A Company of Voices: Conspirare in Concert on KLRU. If you are already a..."

Feb. 27, 2009 Arts Post by Robert Faires

How Little, So Big

Composer Nico Muhly's How Little You Are evokes the vastness of the West with a choir and 12 guitars

"...With a dozen guitars and the vocal virtuosity of Conspirare's company of voices, the work will conjure the monumental..."

April 17, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Considering Matthew Shepard Continues Its Message Eight Years On

Conspirare returns to Austin for a homecoming performance of their musical tribute

"...by Craig Hella Johnson and first performed by Austin-based choir Conspirare in 2016, it now returns to Austin for..."

Sept. 27, 2024 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Art Fun in the Summertime

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"...476-5775.New Texas Festival: Songs of Garcia Lorca The Festival's Conspirare Choir performs Lorca's "Poema de la Ciguiriya Gitana" as..."

May 21, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

For Russia, With Love

CD of Russian sacred music earns Conspirare Grammy nom no. 6

"...Christmas came a little early for Conspirare this year. On Friday, the Austin-based professional vocal ensemble..."

Dec. 8, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

comPassion

In its latest festival, Conspirare finds passions thriving in 21st century music

"...voices are written to this day, a fact that Conspirare is making the focus of a festival of music..."

June 6, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

One / the body's grace / Carmina Burana

Ballet Austin's bill of 'One / the body's grace' and 'Carmina Burana' provided a living spectacle of sound and motion that evoked the pleasure in what it means to be human

"...Ballet Austin in magnificent collaboration with Craig Hella Johnson's Conspirare choir and the Austin Symphony Orchestra under the direction..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

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