About this Artist
The Crossing is a professional chamber choir conducted by Donald Nally and dedicated to new music. It is committed to working with creative teams to make and record new, substantial works for choir that explore and expand ways of writing for choir, singing in choir, and listening to music for choir. Many of its more-than-70 commissioned premieres address social, environmental, and political issues.
Highly sought after for collaborative projects, The Crossing’s first such partnership was as the resident choir of the Italian Spoleto Festival in 2007. Since then, collaborators include the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), American Composers Orchestra, Network for New Music, Lyric Fest, PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Beth Morrison Projects, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Mostly Mozart Festival, National Gallery of Art, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum, Institute for Advanced Study, Carnegie Hall, National Sawdust, and Northwestern University. The Crossing holds an annual residency at the Warren Miller Performing Arts Center in Big Sky, Montana.
With a commitment to recording its commissions, The Crossing has issued 15 releases, receiving two Grammy Awards for Best Choral Performance (2018, 2019), and three Grammy nominations in as many years. The Crossing, with Donald Nally, is the American Composers Forum’s 2017 Champion of New Music. They are the recipients of the 2015 Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence, three ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming, and the Dale Warland Singers Commission Award from Chorus America.
The Crossing Roster:
Katy Avery
Nathaniel Barnett
Julie Bishop
Kelly Ann Bixby
Karen Blanchard
Steven Bradshaw
Colin Dill
Micah Dingler
Robert Eisentrout
Joanna Gates
Dimitri German
Maren Montalbano
Rebecca Myers
Steven Hyder
Michael Jones
Heidi Kurtz
Daniel O'Dea
Rebecca Oehlers
James Reese
Daniel Schwartz
Rebecca Siler
Daniel Spratlan
Elisa Sutherland
Shari Wilson
Donald Nally, conductor
Kevin Vondrak, assistant conductor
John Grecia, keyboards
Adrianne Pope, violin
Michael Kaufman, cello
Michael Yoshimi, clarinets
Percussion
Lara Somogyi, harp