Community Sing: Fauré’s Requiem
Join us for CCC’s first “Community Sing”: Fauré’s Requiem, featuring organist Charles Sega and baritone/CCC Board President Phillip Dothard. While many requiems are known for their somber nature, Fauré’s unusually gentle mass for the dead stands in stark contrast. Fauré draws on the funeral rite to reimagine a burial service free of fear, trepidation, or judgement; instead full of hope and, in his words, a work "dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest." Throughout the concert, guest artist Dr. Stephan Griffin (organist, conductor, and baritone) will join CCC’s artistic director Christopher Windle and associate conductor Amy Keipert to provide an illuminating exploration of musical movements in Fauré’s Requiem. This series of short, casual but highly intimate discussions will provide a broader musical context while heightening your enjoyment of and engagement with Fauré’s pivotal work. All registered patrons will have the opportunity to rehearse with the CCC choir over Zoom, and sing with our virtual performance of Fauré’s masterpiece. A distinctly hope-filled work, we offer this performance a year from the start of Chicago's lockdown, in memory of those who have died of COVID-19 and to honor the healthcare workers striving to keep us safe.
Join us for CCC’s first “Community Sing”: Fauré’s Requiem, featuring organist Charles Sega and baritone/CCC Board President Phillip Dothard.
While many requiems are known for their somber nature, Fauré’s unusually gentle mass for the dead stands in stark contrast. Fauré draws on the funeral rite to reimagine a burial service free of fear, trepidation, or judgement; instead full of hope and, in his words, a work "dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest."
Throughout the concert, guest artist Dr. Stephan Griffin (organist, conductor, and baritone) will join CCC’s artistic director Christopher Windle and associate conductor Amy Keipert to provide an illuminating exploration of musical movements in Fauré’s Requiem. This series of short, casual but highly intimate discussions will provide a broader musical context while heightening your enjoyment of and engagement with Fauré’s pivotal work.
All registered patrons will have the opportunity to rehearse with the CCC choir over Zoom, and sing with our virtual performance of Fauré’s masterpiece. A distinctly hope-filled work, we offer this performance a year from the start of Chicago's lockdown, in memory of those who have died of COVID-19 and to honor the healthcare workers striving to keep us safe.
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FEATURED ARTISTS
JAMIE PRATHER
Jamie Prather joined CCC in the spring of 2016. She is a graduate of Augustana College, where she studied vocal
performance while completing her B.A. in Computer Science and Business Administration. Jamie’s most memorable
musical experience is touring Scandinavia with the Augustana Choir in the summer of 2015. She is thrilled to be
singing with the Chicago Chamber Choir!
STEPHAN GRIFFIN
Stephan Griffin is the Director of Music at All Saints Episcopal Church in Brookline, Massachusetts and enjoys an
active career as a singer, conductor, and organist. A native of Monkton, Maryland, he began his musical training as
a piano student of Virginia Reinecke and as a chorister in the Maryland State Boychoir. He holds degrees in vocal
performance and organ performance from Boston University (BMus, DMus) where he studied with Susan Ormont and
Peter Sykes, and the University of Texas at Austin (MMus) where he studied with Drs. Gerre and Judith Hancock. While
in Austin, Stephan was on the music faculty at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School and the Chorus Master for Ensemble
Settecento (now Austin Baroque Orchestra). Praised by Early Music America and The Washington Post for his warm
tone, he has performed with various ensembles including Schola Cantorum of Boston, Texas Early Music Project, Long
and Away, Pfunkhaus, and The Brookline Consort. Stephan has served as the Director of Music at Trinity Episcopal
Church in Newport, RI, and as Visiting Lecturer in Music and Director of the University Chorus at Brown University.
He is currently a member of the Liturgy and Music Commission for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts and a
Director-at-Large for the Association of Anglican Musicians.
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