The Canby Singers
Chorus
Founded in 1957 by eminent musicologist Edward Tatnall Canby, The Canby Singers has championed a vast range of lesser-known choral music, from medieval song through new commissions by contemporary composers. Now led by renowned soprano and music scholar Dr. Sheila Schonbrun, The Canby Singers perform several concerts a year at their Greenwich Village musical home,St. John’s in the Village, and at other concert venues in Brooklyn and the greater NYC area.
Known commonly as the Christmas Concerto, this work was commissioned by Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni and published posthumously in 1714. Read more →
Still writing under the influence of classically-oriented German masters like Mendelssohn and Brahms, scored the Serenade for a wind ensemble very similar to that of Mozart’s great Serenade for Thirteen Winds. Read more →
A New York City premiere! Heralded as a “promising new compositional voice” by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Kansas City native Stephanie Berg’s music has been met with enthusiasm, and has been described as fun, creative, vivid and unabashedly cinematic. Read more →
The piece established Rachmaninoff's fame as a concerto composer and is one of his most enduringly popular pieces. Read more →
Nico Giacalone has recently won second prize in the International Mozart Competition in Vienna. He also graduated this past year with a Master’s Degree from the Mannes Conservatory and was awarded the Steinway Award for outstanding work as a performer and supportive classmate. Read more →
I was a Canby Singer in the 70’s when I lived in NYC. We sang wonderful music! Ed Canby was and incredibly smart, entertaining man. My time with them was one of the highlights of my life.
My uncle, William J. Rider, Jr. (Bill Rider) was a member of the Canby Singers in the 1960s, I believe…. he died in 2008 in Danbury, where he was born, grew up, and remained active in the Danbury Music Society all his life, even though he lived in Manhattan for the last four decades of his life. Do you have any OLD pictures of the Canby Singers you could email me so I could see if I can pick my uncle out? I am an attorney in Dutchess County, and an Associate Professor of Management at Marist College in Poughkeepsie. I hope to hear from you! Sincerely, Caroline Rider