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Chanticleer Called the worlds reigning male chorus, by the New Yorker magazine, and named 2008 Ensemble of the Year by Musical America, Chanticleer will perform more than 100 concerts in 2008-09.

Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle, Chanticleer will tour to 27 states across the United States this season. In July 2008, the ensemble performed at prestigious festivals in France, Germany, Poland and Latvia, and will make its debut in the Peoples Republic of China in May, 2009.

Highlights of fall 2008 are the release of The Mission Road a CD and DVD set featuring music from Californias exciting mission period, and Chanticleers induction into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame in Cincinnati.

Chanticleer - based in San Francisco - has developed a remarkable reputation for its vivid interpretations of vocal literature, from Renaissance to jazz, and from gospel to audacious new music. With its seamless blend of twelve male voices, the ensemble has earned international renown as an orchestra of voices.

Chanticleers 28-concert Bay Area Season opened in September with an appreciation of the 250th anniversary of the first American song, Wondrous Free . The program includes the premiere of David Contes The Homecoming about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, and the premiere of Eric Whitacres choral arrangement of his Sleep My Child.

Throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, new compositions commissioned from three prodigious young composers - Mason Bates, Shawn Crouch and Tarik ORegan - will be premiered in March. And the season will be completed by an all-Orlando di Lasso concert.

Since 1994, Chanticleers recordings have been made available worldwide by Warner Classics. Most recently Let it Snow, a new collection of Christmas music, was on the BillBoard charts for twelve weeks. Colors of Love won the GRAMMY Award in 2000 for Best Small Ensemble Performance and the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award for Best Classical Album.

The world-premiere recording of Sir John Taveners Lamentations and Praises was released in January 2002 to critical acclaim and garnered two GRAMMY awards for Classical Best Small Ensemble Performance and for Best Classical Contemporary Composition.

The group brings the gift of singing to young people by conducting an extensive education program including in-school clinics and workshops, Chanticleer Youth Choral Festivals? in the Bay Area and around the country, master classes for university students nationwide, and the Chanticleer in Sonoma summer workshop for adult choral singers with the help of individual contributions and foundation and corporate support. 2008 saw the release of The Singing Life- a documentary about Chanticleers 2007 Youth Choral Festival.

Chanticleers long-standing commitment to commissioning and performing new works was recognized in 2008 by the inaugural Dale Warland Commissioning Award and the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming for the 2006-07 Season in which the group premiered ten new works.

Named for the clear-singing rooster in Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer was founded in 1978 by tenor Louis Botto, who sang with the group until 1989 and served as Artistic Director until his death in 1997. In 1999, Christine Bullin joined Chanticleer as President & General Director.

Artistic Advisor Joseph Jennings joined the ensemble as a countertenor in 1983, and shortly thereafter assumed the title of Music Director which he held until 2008. In 2008, tenor Matthew Oltman was named Music Director.

Chanticleer is the recipient of major grants from The Alexander Gerbode Foundation, The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, The Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, The Walter and Elise Haas Fund, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, Meet the Composer, the E. Nakamichi Foundation.

The Bernard Osher Foundation, Wells Fargo Bank, Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, and The National Endowment for the Arts. Chanticleers activities as a not-for-profit corporation are supported by its administrative staff and Board of Trustees.