Cincinnati Boychoir to Become Resident Company
of the Aronoff Center
Aronoff Center will be only the second permanent home of the Boychoir in 50 years
Cincinnati Boychoir celebrates 50th Anniversary Season in 2014-2015
More than 250 boys from around the region will participate in 2014-2015
Cincinnati, OH – The Cincinnati Boychoir and the Cincinnati Arts Association are pleased to announce that the Boychoir will be moving to the Aronoff Center in August 2014, in time for the start of its 2014-2015 Season.
Due to an extensive amount of growth over the past several years, the Boychoir has been seeking a new home for the more than 150 boys that regularly attend rehearsals, classes, and festivals. The Aronoff Center is home to several sizeable rehearsal and performance spaces, and provides compatible facilities and atmosphere for the Boychoir’s music education and performance programs.
Boychoir Artistic Director Christopher Eanes said of the move, “We are absolutely thrilled to be able to take advantage of the amazing facilities at the Aronoff Center and to partner with the Cincinnati Arts Association, which already brings so much artistic vitality to the downtown area. There could not be a better way for us to continue our mission of reaching boys from all walks of life through musical education and professional performances.”
Entering its fiftieth season in 2015, the Boychoir has served the community as a musical education and professional performance venue for boys since its founding in 1965 as a part of the Cincinnati Public Schools. Recently, the choir has reached back into the public schools, providing free after-school choral classes through its Cincinnati Sings! program. Each year, more than 250 of these students come together at the All-City Boychoir Festival in February for a day of singing, music games, and camaraderie. In addition to providing the Boychoir with rehearsal and performance space, CAA will assist the Boychoir with ticketing, marketing, and back-of-house operations. “We could not take this step forward without the incredible resources and the professional staff of the Cincinnati Arts Association and the Aronoff Center,” said Eanes.
“We are delighted to welcome the Cincinnati Boychoir to the Aronoff Center as our newest resident company,” said Steve Loftin, President and Executive Director of the Cincinnati Arts Association. “The remarkable work of the Boychoir aligns perfectly with our ongoing mission of providing a variety of arts experiences for Tri-state area youth. We hope that the location and quality of our facilities will help the Boychoir expand the opportunities for boys from all neighborhoods and socio-economic backgrounds to participate in the Boychoir’s exemplary programs.”
CINCINNATI BOYCHOIR
Each year, the Cincinnati Boychoir presents approximately forty performances in a wide variety of venues. The Boychoir has performed concerts and completed residencies both at home and abroad, and, in June 2013, the Boychoir undertook three three-day residencies with boychoirs in London, Leicester, and Canterbury. As an organization that values collaboration, the Boychoir has built artistic partnerships with Cincinnati’s Vocal Arts Ensemble, Cincinnati Opera, May Festival, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, the musicians of Christ Church Cathedral, Collegium Cincinnati, Taft Museum of Art, and Elementz, as well as many other choirs that together make Cincinnati ‘The City That Sings’. In 2013, the Cincinnati Boychoir was the subject of a thirty-minute special on WCET (Cincinnati’s public television station) entitled A Treasure of Youth and Song.
The Boychoir’s 50th Anniversary Season will include performances of Handel’s Messiah, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, and the world premiere of A Horizon Symphony by composer Dominick DiOrio. The choir will tour to Sydney, Australia in July, 2015.
CINCINNATI BOYCHOIR SPONSORS: ArtsWave, Charles H. Dater Foundation, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Ohio Arts Council
For more information, visit www.cincinnatiboychoir.org.
CINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION
Founded in 1992, the Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA) is a not-for-profit organization that oversees the programming and management of the Tri-state’s finest performing arts venues – the Aronoff Center for the Arts and Music Hall – and is dedicated to supporting performing and visual arts. Each year, CAA presents a diverse schedule of events; serves more than of 600,000 people in its venues; features the work of talented local, regional, and national artists in the Weston Art Gallery (located in the Aronoff Center); and supports the work of more than one dozen resident companies. Since the inception of its acclaimed arts education programs in 1995, CAA has reached more than 1.3 million students.
CINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATON SEASON SPONSORS: Ameritas (Founding Season Sponsor), Fifth Third Bank (Lifetime Endowment Partner), Furniture Fair, Local 12 WKRC, The P&G Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
For more information, visit www.CincinnatiArts.org.
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