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JOIN HARMONIUM FOR AN EXCITING SEASON
For immediate release

Anne Matlack, Artistic Director of Harmonium Choral Society, is holding auditions now through September 10, 2005 for experienced choral singers - particularly tenors. There is an extremely limited number of openings in the other voice parts for excellent singers with good sight reading skills.

In the 2005-2006 season Harmonium presents subscription concerts in December, March and June and will participate in Grace Community Music's Halloween Concert and First Night Morris. Harmonium has also been invited to sing the world premiere of Alan Seidler's The Mystic Trumpeter on Whitman's text in January at New York City's Merkin Concert Hall; and Mozart's Requiem with the Colonial Symphony in Morristown in May.

Rehearsals are Sunday evenings, from the first Sunday after Labor Day through the following May at Grace Lutheran Church, 65 East Main Street in Mendham.

Auditions are held at Grace Episcopal Church, Madison Avenue at Kings Road in Madison, New Jersey. Call 973-765-9028 for an appointment. Visit the Harmonium Choral Society website www.harmonium.org for further information about the chorus and for driving directions.

Dr. Matlack's programming provides ample opportunity for the professional, as well as the serious amateur. For music educators seeking continuing education credits, Harmonium Choral Society is a Registered New Jersey Professional Development Provider. Member singers looking for individual or small group experience may audition for solos within the programmed works or audition to join the select 16-voice Harmonium Chamber Singers. Other members who are available during the school day, evenings, or weekends, may volunteer to sing in the Harmonium Outreach Chorus, which performs assemblies in elementary and middle schools, libraries, retirement homes, etc.

Willa Conrad, classical music critic of The Star-Ledger, wrote that "Harmonium is among the most creative and technically advanced amateur choirs in the state; certainly its programming is imaginative and daring. Behind that programming lies the mind of music director Anne Matlack, and what a fascinating musical mind it is..." The Arts Council of the Morris Area concurred, naming her 2003 Outstanding Arts Professional. Under her direction, Harmonium performs a diverse, largely a cappella, repertoire at a high artistic level, increasing community appreciation of choral music through concerts, education, and outreach. Funding is made possible in part by the Arts Council of Morris Area through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State Block Grant Program, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. The annual Student Choral Composition Contest is generously funded by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.