Featured Ensemble in Carnegie Hall - 2025

Featured Ensemble in Carnegie Hall

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Featured Ensemble in

Carnegie Hall

NYC + Carnegie Hall's

Stern Auditorium

Concert Performance

Date Options:

Friday, March 28, 2025 (SOLD OUT - Waitlist Started)
Friday, April 4, 2025 (SOLD OUT - Waitlist Started)
Saturday, June 21, 2025

Choirs of America produces a number of massed choir concerts every year in world-famous Carnegie Hall. As part of these concerts, we area able to offer a concert performance slot to one Featured Ensemble comprised of a concert band, orchestra, choir, or any combination thereof, to open the concert in Carnegie Hall.

As such, we are pleased to offer one 20-minute concert performance slot per concert date (see above) to an interested group to perform the repertoire of their choice (subject to prior approval from our Artistic Director, of course) to open the concert. This coveted Featured Ensemble opportunity is awarded on a "first come, first served" basis. So, if you and your ensemble(s) are interested, please let us know as soon as possible!

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Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall

Program Inclusions...

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Pre-Trip Preparation

Rehearsal Notes from our staff detailing concert logistics and expectations

Concert advertising and audience development

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Pre-Concert Preparation

Rehearsal venue in Manhattan with traditional percussion instrumentation provided

Soundcheck at Carnegie Hall

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Concert Performance

Professional production team for the performance

Featured Ensemble performance of up to 20 minutes of your selected repertoire to open the concert in Carnegie Hall (with traditional percussion instrumentation provided)

Assigned house seats for the remainder of the performance

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Additional Inclusions

PlayBill concert program with ensemble bio and performer names

Official concert photographer with option to purchase concert photos

Archival video recording of your performance

Commemorative Concert Poster with name of the ensemble

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Sample Tour Itinerary

Day One

Travel Day to NYC
Meet your Dedicated Harmony Tours Guide
Check into Hotel
Inclusive Group Welcome Dinner

Day Three

Inclusive Group Breakfast
Rehearsal for Featured Ensemble Concert Opener
Explore Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty
Inclusive Group Dinner in Times Square
Attend Broadway Musical

Day Five

Inclusive Group Breakfast
Free time to explore Central Park or visit Metropolitan Museum of Art
Travel Home

Day Two

Inclusive Group Breakfast
Visit 9/11 Memorial and One World Trade Center Observation Deck
Discover 5th Avenue and Times Square
Inclusive Group Dinner in Times Square

Day Four

Inclusive Group Breakfast
Narrated walking tour of Chinatown or Little Italy
Sound Check for Featured Ensemble Concert Opener
Early Group Dinner
Perform your repertoire to open COA's Concert in Carnegie Hall

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