Choral ensembles at TCNJ include Chorale, College Choir, and Collegium Musicum, and Lyric Theatre. Each ensemble is comprised of students from across all schools and majors at The College — you don’t need to be a music major to participate in TCNJ ensembles! TCNJ ensembles provide students with opportunities to nurture and develop their love of music, continue to pursue interests from high school, earn College Core credit towards their degree programs, meet students from all majors across campus, and perform in TCNJ’s beautiful concert halls.
Chorale
TCNJ Chorale, the premier choral ensemble at the College, represents TCNJ at events on and off campus and has toured throughout the United States, eastern Canada and England. This auditioned ensemble, composed of undergraduate students from both music and other majors across the campus, was praised in 2012 by Harry Rolnick of ConcertoNet.com as “excellent” with “superlative voices,” and “entirely in control” by Michael Miller of New York Arts. In addition to its regular concerts on campus and in New Jersey, the Chorale has performed twice on the Great Music at St. Bart’s concert series at St. Bartholomew’s, New York, and multiple times at Lincoln Center.
TCNJ Chorale performs in Mayo Concert Hall.
In 2012, the Chorale commissioned its first work, Poet of the Body and The Soul by Andrea Clearfield for mixed chorus and piano. It has recorded new works by New Jersey composer Robert S. Cohen that can be found on Santa Barbara Press, and has also performed with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Magnificat, Argento Ensemble, the Philharmonia Orchestra of New York (formerly the New York City Opera Orchestra), and Peter Schickele (PDQ Bach).
Course Details
Course: MUS 135 (music majors) / MUS 175 (non-music majors)
Rehearsals: Mondays and Thursdays from 3:30–5:20 p.m.
The College Choir is open to music majors and non-music majors through approval by the Director, and maintains a rigorous performance schedule during the academic year. This ensemble performs both on and off campus with repertoire that spans from the Renaissance to contemporary works, including accompanied and unaccompanied, sacred and secular choral literature.
TCNJ Choirs perform in Mayo Concert Hall
Course Details
Course: MUS 130 (music majors) / MUS 170 (non-music majors)
Rehearsals: Mondays and Thursdays from 12:30–1:50 p.m.
The Collegium is a vocal chamber ensemble composed of undergraduate students from both music and other majors across the campus. The ensemble focuses on unaccompanied chamber vocal works from the Renaissance to the present day.
Lyric Theatre is an academic program in which students study the work of a musical theatre composer, take a master class with the composer, and perform a revue of the composer’s greatest works with a Broadway performer. Lyric Theatre has collaborated with legends including Andrew Lippa, Jeanine Tesori, Jason Robert Brown, Kate Baldwin, and Joshua Henry! Contact Professor Nathan Brewer to audition at any time:
Course Details
Course: MUS 229-02
Rehearsals: Mondays and Thursdays from 12:30–1:50 p.m.
