Coro Allegro: Highlights from Over 25 Years
1991
- David Cutler founds Ars Nova, a classical chorus for gays, lesbians, and their friends.
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- Thomas Kim, Conductor
- Karen Harvey, Accompanist
1992
- Ars Nova becomes Coro Allegro, Boston’s classical chorus for members & friends of the LGB community.
- Jane Ring Frank, Conductor
- September
- David Hodgkins becomes Artistic Director.
- November
- First concert with Kristina Nilsson, concertmaster
- First concert at the Church of the Covenant
1993
- June
- Coro Allegro sings at our first Boston Pride Interfaith Service.
- September
- Darryl Hollister becomes Accompanist.
1994
- Boston premiere: Salmo 51 by Marianne Martines
1995
- World premiere: In the Clearing by Kenneth Fuchs
- Coro Allegro’s first commission
1996
- May
- World premiere: Daniel Pinkham, The White Raven
- Commissioned by Coro Allegro
- World premiere: Daniel Pinkham, The White Raven
- July
- Coro Allegro attends GALA Chorus Festival V, Tampa
- November
- Boston premiere: Arvo Pärt’s Te Deum
1997
- February
- World premiere: Requiem by Ruth Lomon
- March
- VOICES of FREEDOM with NE GALA choruses
- Coro Allegro’s first commercial CD In the Clearing is released.
- December
- First Night, Boston in Trinity Church
1998
- March
- Collaboration: Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra
- November
- The Voice of the Tenth Muse by Patricia Van Ness
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- World premiere, commission, Artist in Residency
1999
- And They Lynched Him on a Tree by William Grant Still
- Boston premiere, with the New Haven Heritage Chorale
2000
- July
- GALA Choruses Festival VI in San Jose, CA
- October
- Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Symphony Hall
- Christopher Hogwood conducts Handel & Haydn, Coro Allegro, and Boston Cecilia.
- Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Symphony Hall
2001
- Coro Allegro affirms Transgender inclusion (LGBT).
- May
- World premiere: Casey: Play Ball! by Robert Kapilow
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- Boston Celebrity Series, with Boston Musica Viva in the Cyclorama
2001-2002 Season
- Coro Allegro celebrates our 10th Anniversary.
2002
- Spring
- Commercial CD release: somewhere i have never traveled
- November
- Boston premiere: James MacMillan’s Cantos Sagrados
2003
- March
- Collaboration: Coro Allegro & Boston Cecilia
- Donald Teeters conducting Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, Jordan Hall
- Collaboration: Coro Allegro & Boston Cecilia
- April
- Collaboration: Boston Landmarks Ensemble
- May
- World premiere: Infinite Fraternity by Charles Fussell
- Commissioned by Coro Allegro
- World premiere: Infinite Fraternity by Charles Fussell
- November
- American premiere of 3 songs by Rebecca Clarke
2004
- February
- MacMillan’s Cantos Sagrados at Eastern ACDA
- March
- Collaboration: Coro Allegro & Boston Cecilia
- David Hodgkins conducting 20th-century masters, Jordan Hall
- Collaboration: Coro Allegro & Boston Cecilia
- May
- Collaboration: Horace Clarence Boyer, Boston City Singers
- July
- GALA Festival VII in Montreal
- October
- World premiere: Requiem by Patricia Van Ness
- Commissioned by Coro Allegro
- World premiere: Requiem by Patricia Van Ness
2006
- May
- World Premiere: Joseph Fear, St. Francis Prayer for Peace
- World Premiere: Joseph Marcello, Three spirituals
- November
- World premiere: Shofar by Robert Stern
- December
- A Tribute to Congressman Gerry E. Studds
2008
- February
- Coro Allegro establishes the Daniel Pinkham Award.
- First Pinkham Award recipient: Sanford Sylvan
- July
- GALA Festival VIII in Miami
2009
- 2nd Daniel Pinkham Award to Bishop Gene Robinson
2010
- 3rd Daniel Pinkham Award to Fenwick Smith
2011
- March
- 4th Daniel Pinkham Award to Patricia Van Ness
- May
- World premiere: The Son of Man! by Kareem Roustom
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- Collaboration with United Parish Chancel Choir, Susan DeSelms, Director
2012
- March
- 5th Daniel Pinkham Award to Donald Teeters
- May
- Coro Allegro wins the Chorus America/ASCAP Alice Parker Award
- July
- GALA IX Festival in Denver
- Coro Allegro’s first two albums on the Navona label are released:
- In Paradisum, Requiem and Voice of the Tenth Muse by Patricia Van Ness;
- Awakenings: Why I Wake Early by Ronald Perera; Shofar by Robert Stern.
2013
- March
- Coro Allegro in Veterans for Peace St. Patrick’s Peace Parade
- April
- Boston premiere: Last Letter Home by Lee Hoiby
- Coro Allegro & area choruses: “A Song for Peace,” Trinity Church
- After the Boston Marathon bombings
- June
- Coro celebrates 20 Years with David Hodgkins.
- World Premiere: The Orchard: Songs of Fruit and Love by Greg Bullen
- Presentation of the 6th Daniel Pinkham Award to David Hodgkins
2014
- June
- Collaboration: La Donna Musicale and RUMBARROCO
- Presentation of the 7th Daniel Pinkham Award to Laury Gutiérrez
- July
- Whitbourn’s Annelies with Chorus Pro Musica, Massachusetts ACDA
- November
- Songs for a Waxing Moon by Alexander deVaron
- World premiere at Jordon Hall
- 8th Daniel Pinkham Award to Lorna Cooke deVaron
- Songs for a Waxing Moon by Alexander deVaron
2015
- June
- Te Deum by Arvo Pärt at Chorus America Conference
- October
- Terezin Music Festival GALA in Boston Symphony Hall
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- 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Nazi Camps
- World premiere: Pablo Ortiz, Leaving Limerick, text by Richard Blanco
- Commissioned for Coro Allegro by the Terezin Music Foundation
- November
- A Concert for Marriage Equality
2016
- March
- World premiere: Howard Frazin’s The Voice of Isaac
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- Expanded version, with Boston City Singers & Toronto Children’s Chorus
- May
- Aluta Continua: The passion of David Kato Kisule by Eric Banks
- World premiere/commissioned by Coro Allegro tenor Tom Regan;
- Benefit for LGBTI refugees in Kenya w/Spectrum Uganda/Refuge Point
- Presentation of the 9th Daniel Pinkham Award to Janson Wu
- Aluta Continua: The passion of David Kato Kisule by Eric Banks
- July
- GALA X Festival in Denver
- November
- Kristina Nilsson, concertmaster, solo performance
- In recognition of 25 years of contributions by orchestral musicians
- Kristina Nilsson, concertmaster, solo performance
- December
- World AIDS Day Service Church of the Covenant
- Benefit performance of the Fauré Requiem for the Boston Living Center
- World AIDS Day Service Church of the Covenant
2017
- March
- Caprice for Piano & Orchestra by Fred Onovwerosuoke
- World premiere commissioned in honor of Darryl Hollister
- 10th Daniel Pinkham Award to Catherine Peterson
- Caprice for Piano & Orchestra by Fred Onovwerosuoke
- May
- Alleluia! A Celebration of 25 Years
- World premiere commissions: To be nobody by Peter Eldridge; Psalm 116 (Alleluia) by Patricia Van Ness.
- Alleluia! A Celebration of 25 Years
- September
- Coro Allegro becomes Boston's LGBTQ+ and allied classical chorus, affirming inclusion of all sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.
- In celebration and to launch our next quarter century, we present a new logo.
- November
- David Hodgkins' 25th Season as Artistic Director kicks off with a performance of Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor, K. 427
2018
- March
- World premiere: Rage Against the tyrant(s) by Kareem Roustom
- Commissioned by Coro Allegro members T. Jefferson Kline, Julie Anderson, and Tom Regan
- World premiere of expanded version of Shawn Kirchner's Songs of Ascent
- 11th Daniel Pinkham Award to Robin Godfrey
- World premiere: Rage Against the tyrant(s) by Kareem Roustom
2019
- March
- Collaboration: The Heritage Chorale of New Haven
- World premiere, A Triptych of American Composers: A Cantata of the People by Fred Onovwerosuoke
- Commissioned by Coro Allegro tenor Willis Emmons and his husband Zach Durant-Emmons
- 12th Daniel Pinkham Award to Darryl Hollister.
- June
- Coro Allegro named recipient of the 2019 Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming.
- July
- Collaboration: The Boston Landmarks Orchestra and the One City Choir