REHEARSALS for the Throckmorton Chorus Fall 2016 Season will be held Mondays from 6:30-8:45pm starting Sept 19 and running through Dec 12, with extra rehearsals scheduled for Wed October 26, Wed November 2nd and Wed December 7th.
ABOUT THROCKMORTON CHORUS
Throckmorton Chorus (TC) was inspired by Bay Area master accompanist, teacher and composer Joe Bloom, was formed in January 2014 to foster and share the art of choral music and offer an educational process that focuses on the pursuit of choral excellence in repertoire and performance. bToday it is composed of 30 singers from all ages and walks of life who share a love of music and a desire to learn and grow in collaboration with others. Each season the repertoire includes a wide variety of styles allowing members to expand and deepen their skills and understanding of this rich music. The quality and artistry of the chorus, under the direction of Richard McKinley, continues to grow each season by leaps and bounds.
Rehearsals are held on Monday nights and each season culminates in a public concert at the theatre. The group is offered other seasonal opportunities to perform and contribute to the thriving artistic environment around us. Membership is by audition and subject to availability in your voice section. Auditions for new members are held in January and September each year. Returning members re-audition each September before the Fall season.
FALL 2016 SEASON
PERFORMANCES This season will premiere TC’s first-ever 3-concert collaboration with the Mill Valley Philharmonic Orchestra on Friday and Saturday November 4th and 5th, as well as Sunday, November 6th, 2016. Our Chorus Winter Concert will be held on Wednesday Dec 14, 2016. Other additional opportunities may be added from time to time – stay informed by subscribing to our newsletter:
UPCOMING CONCERTS
Concert with the Mill Valley Philharmonic Orchestra http://millvalleyphilharmonic.org/
- Location: Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church, 410 Sycamore Avenue, Mill Valley
Dates: Friday Nov 4, 8pm, and Saturday Nov 5, 4pm - Location: Kanbar Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N San Pedro Road, San Rafael
Date: Sunday Nov 6, 2pm Complimentary admission to the Public
Throckmorton Chorus Winter 2016 Concert
- Location: Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley
- Date: Wednesday, Dec 14 8pm Complimentary Admission to the Public
TC DIRECTOR Richard McKinley has been a member of the Throckmorton Chorus since its inception, and became its Director in February 2015. He earned a BA in musical composition from Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA, and sang in the Glee Club for four years. He also sang in several Los Angeles area choruses, including the LA Mens Chorus and the Youth Symphony Chorus under Michael Tilson Thomas. While pursuing a career in finance, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1982 and has sung with many choirs in the Bay Area, including four years with the Festival Singers / Marin Symphony Chorus and four years with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. He has been a cantor and section leader in church choirs for the last 12 years, and he has sung and played bass and percussion in several Bay Area rock and jazz bands, including 8 years with the North Bay cover band Go! Kat! Go! He is an experienced arranger, and the Chorus has sung several of his choral arrangements. He has lived in Marin since 1991 and enjoys reading, genealogy, and the company of his wife Christina and their pets Cleo and Atticus.
TC PIANIST Allegra Chapman has been described as “brilliant” by the San Francisco Classical Voice. She is dedicated to engaging with new audiences as both performer and presenter. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed at Alice Tully Hall, in the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, and at festivals including New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival and Bard Music Festival. Her performances have been broadcast on WQXR New York, WFMT Chicago, and KALW San Francisco. Allegra performs regularly with local San Francisco ensembles and has collaborated with musicians Blair McMillan, Ian Swensen, and members of International Contemporary Ensemble and the Orion String Quartet. In addition to her performing career, Allegra enjoys a thriving teaching studio and has coached chamber music ensembles at many institutions, including San Francisco State University. She recently joined the faculty of the Xi’an International Music Festival in Xi’an, China.
Passionate about performing and promoting the music of today, Allegra has worked with composers Joan Tower and Charles Wuorinen and premiered the works of many young composers, including Dylan Mattingly, Benjamin Pesetsky, and Shen Yiwen. Highlights have included soloing with the New Juilliard Ensemble at Alice Tully Hall, performing in a groundbreaking collaboration between Yamaha RemoteLive Technology and the Juilliard Technology Center, and performing new and twentieth-century works alongside San Francisco Conservatory of Music faculty members at the 2013 San Francisco-Shanghai International Chamber Music Festival. From 2013 to 2014, Allegra co-founded and played with Phonochrome chamber music ensemble. After their commissioning project at the San Francisco Center for New Music, San Francisco Classical Voice’s Jeff Dunn wrote, “…new-music lovers crammed into the concert space. Almost everyone…was apparently under 30. I can now die in peace knowing art music will continue to prosper.” Allegra is a graduate of the Bard Conservatory of Music’s inaugural class, receiving both a Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Arts. She also holds a Masters of Music from The Juilliard School, where she was the recipient of the L. & G. Goldberg, Betty Larson, and Ruth D. Rosenman scholarships. Her teachers have included Jeremy Denk, Seymour Lipkin, Julian Martin, Sharon Mann, John McCarthy, Robert McDonald and Peter Serkin. Allegra has studied chamber music with members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, and Orion String Quartets, and performed in master classes with Richard Goode, Claude Frank, and Leon Fleisher.
