UPCOMING EVENTS

8TH ANNUAL REDWOOD EMPIRE COMMUNITY CHORAL FESTIVAL -
Enjoy the choral music of many of our best community groups.  A partial list of participants:  SRJC Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, Cantiamo Sonoma, Santa Rosa Symphonic Chorus, Sonoma County Chamber Singers, California Redwood Chorale, Occidental Community Choir, the Tangents, and more.
March 8, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Santa Rosa Bible Church, Badger at Brush Creek Rd, Santa Rosa
Tickets for this concert are FREE

“ETERNAL LIGHT” – joint concert
The Santa Rosa Symphonic Chorus will sing Morten Lauridsen’s “Lux Aeterna”, with chamber orchestra (no orchestra at Jacuzzi Family Vineyards).  They will be joined by the  California Redwood Chorale in singing Lauridsen’s “Sure on this Shining Night”.  Both choruses will sing other pieces as well.
April 25, 2014 at 8:00 pm, St. Vincent’s Church, Petaluma
April 26, 2014 at 8:00 pm, Glaser Center, Santa Rosa
April 27, 2014 at 3:00 pm, Glaser Center, Santa Rosa
May 4, 2014 at 3:00 pm, Jacuzzi Family Vineyards, Sonoma

Tickets are $15.

Some highlights from San Juan, Puerto Rico January 2014. (keep clicking on individual photos to see them large)

Gerry holds poster

CRC sings with ARS VOCALIS at the Conservatory of Music in San Juan, Puerto Rico in Jan. 2014, conducted by Robert Hazelrigg with John Hazelrigg at the piano.

Students react to our performance at the Puerto Rican Museum of Art.

Dinner with Ars Vocalis in San Juan, Puerto Rico resulted in spontaneous singing!

Bonnie Brooks sings recital accompanied by Robert Hazelrigg at El Convento Hotel atruim

Bonnie Brooks prepares for her recital at El Convento Hotel atruim

Welcome dinner

Robert and Martha Hazelrigg at breakfast

CRC sang in this spot at the Museum of Art

Gorgeous Conservatory of Music where we performed with Ars Vocalis.

Gerry at El Yunque Rainforest visitor center.

Gerry in “special” bar seat at Senor Frog’s in Old San Juan.

Robert looks fetching at our Cooking Class location.

Our gang joins others in taking a dip at El Yunque Rainforest.

Robert Hazelrigg makes mofongo at cooking class

Chef teaching us at our cooking class at his restaurant in Dorado, Puerto Rico.

Poster art museum in Dorado, Puerto Rico.

At our music workshop at the Conservatory of Music in San Juan.

We sang in here!

Mofongo….national dish made of cooked plantains..taken at our cooking class.

Happy folks!

At the Museum of Puerto Rican Art

CRC sings at the Conservatory of Music in San Juan.

From El Morro fort in Old San Juan.

Delicious mojito at Bacardi Rum Factory.

We loved our week in Puerto Rico.

The Conservatory of Music in San Juan, Puerto Rico is an elegant and new state-or-the-art music school. We had a music workshop in the morning from the reknowned Willie Rivera, who serves on the faculty and also directs a very accomplished choir called Ars Vocalis. That evening, we gave a joint concert with Ars Vocalis in the the Conservatory concert hall. Both choirs celebrated by having a delicious dinner together after the concert. More spontaneous singing after dinner!!

Conservatory of Music of San Juan. Puerto Rico

Dinner with Ars Vocalis in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Pizza in the Piazza + Concert at Jacuzzi Family Vineyards on October 27, 2013

GOING TO PUERTO RICO JANUARY 2014. JOIN US! crc@californiaredwoodchorale.org for information

Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

If  you are interested in singing with us in Puerto Rico, or…if you are interested in traveling there with us, please contact Gerry Schultz at gerryschultz3@gmail.com.

Auditions for interested singers are being held this summer. Rehearsals will begin in September.

The trip will be Jan. 21 – 27.

HISTORICAL BUILDINGS FOR MAY and JUNE, 2013 “LANDMARKS” CONCERTS (click on postcard)(click on recording of “The Gift of Music” under postcard)

Gift of Music by John Rutter, featuring tenor, Michael Fontaine

LANDMARKS CONCERTS

The CALIFORNIA REDWOOD CHORALE will be performing a unique concert series called, “CALIFORNIA REDWOOD CHORALE sings in LANDMARKS…with love”. Director Robert Hazelrigg will guide the singers through a program of music about love…love of each other, love of home, and love of music. Accompanied by pianist, John Hazelrigg, you will hear beautiful music by John Rutter, David Dickau, James Muholland, and even Freddy Mercury!

Our three concerts will be performed in landmark buildings well over 100 years old.  The venues will include the Petaluma Historical Museum, the gleaming white DeTurk Round Barn and the charming Church Built of One Tree. This is the perfect opportunity for you to see the inside of these landmark

buildings. The LANDMARK buildings are owned by the City of Petaluma and the City of Santa Rosa.

The Petaluma concert will be at the Petaluma Historical Museum on Friday evening, May 31 at 8pm. The concerts in Santa Rosa will be on  Sunday afternoons. June 2 at 3pm will be at The Church of One Tree and June 16 at 3pm will be at the DeTurk Round Barn, both in the west Santa Rosa area. You may get your tickets in advance by searching “California Redwood Chorale” on brownpapertickets.com

“AN AMERICAN RAINBOW music and lyrics of North America” – keep clicking on image to see it in various sizes on your screen

13 Track 13 AVE MARIA  Click to listen

The California Redwood Chorale will be performing 4 Fall concerts in 2012. Guests artists are MICHAEL BOLIVAR, saxophone and BONNIE BROOKS, vocalist, who will thrill you with their artistry. This sensational program will delight you with all American music from classical to contemporary, from jazz to gospel, and from American film and stage. Robert Hazelrigg, our director and John Hazelrigg, our accompanist, will put their mighty talents together at the keyboard in this program. We look forward to seeing you there!
Be sure to get tickets early at Brown Paper Tickets by searching California Redwood Chorale.

AUDITIONS FOR SINGERS

We are always eager to hear interested singers.

If you can read music and have a clear, strong voice..we want to hear you!

Please contact us at crc@californiaredwoodchorale.org

Bella Italia! CRC loved singing in Italy! (double click on photo)

Photo by our soprano, Debra Kahn-Wand www.AbracaDebraWandPhotography.com

Our trip to Italy in April 2012, was exciting and fun. We sang in Verona for the choral competition and also gave concerts there. Our hotel was at the edge of beautiful Lake Garda. During the second week of our trip, we traveled to Florence and gave a big concert that was sung with perfection.

Robert loves this Italian cat!

HERE WE COME VERONA, ITALY!

CRC  flies to Italy April 9, 2012 to compete in the Verona International Choral Festival. This will be our first competition. We will perform 4 American pieces in the competition: “Smile”, “That Lonesome Road” “Prayer of the Children” and “Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel”.  All other concerts during our stay in Verona and Florence will be a mix of American and Italian repertoire. Scroll down and click on selections from this repertoire.