Musiksommer: Chanticleer

"Our American Journey"

The Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer is known worldwide for its homogeneous sound, versatile repertoire, and stunning virtuosity, and has been called by the New Yorker "the world's leading male choir."

Vocal; World Music

Tavian Cox: Countertenor
Luke Elmer: Countertenor
Cortez Mitchell: Countertenor
Bradley Sharp: Countertenor
Logan Shields: Countertenor
Adam Brett Ward: Countertenor
Vineel Garisa Mahal: Tenor
Matthew Mazzola: Tenor
Andrew Van Allsburg: Tenor
Andy Berry: Baritone & Bass
Jared Graveley: Baritone & Bass
Matthew Knickman: Baritone & Bass
Tim Keeler: Musical Director

Admission: € 44.00 - Half-price pass not valid!
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Chanticleer
Known worldwide for its versatile repertoire and virtuosity, the Grammy-award winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer – under the direction of Music Director Tim Keeler – captivates audiences with extraordinary vocal precision, tonal purity, and stylistic expressiveness. The Boston Globe praised Chanticleer as "breathtaking in intonation, sound balance, richness of colors, and stylistic sovereignty." Founded in 1978 in San Francisco by singer and musicologist Louis Botto, Chanticleer quickly established itself as one of the world's most productive touring and recording ensembles. As an "orchestra of voices," the ensemble has performed thousands of live concerts and sold over a million recordings.

Chanticleer's roots are in Renaissance music, but its repertoire today also includes classical works, gospel, jazz, and popular music. A special highlight is the program A Chanticleer Christmas, with which the ensemble tours every December. In autumn 2025, the new Christmas album Joy to the World will be released. With a strong commitment to new compositions and arrangements, Chanticleer regularly places American repertoire and a distinctly American sound at the forefront – a reflection of the ensemble's stylistic and personnel diversity. Many of its numerous recordings document these commissioned works and have been awarded prestigious prizes – including two Grammy Awards for Sir John Tavener’s Lamentations & Praises and the collection Colors of Love. The album Our American Journey was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2025. Chanticleer has been awarded the Dale Warland Commission Award and the Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming. Joseph H. Jennings, long-time singer and music director of the ensemble, received the Brazeal Wayne Dennard Award for his outstanding work in the African American choral heritage.

Named after the "clear-singing" rooster from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer was named Ensemble of the Year by Musical America in 2008 and inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame. The ensemble’s award-winning education programs – honored with the Chorus America Education Outreach Award – have reached tens of thousands of students since their inception.

Our American Journey
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence, Chanticleer honors the diverse voices, melodies, harmonies, and rhythms of the shared musical heritage. The ensemble explores how these musical traditions have influenced each other and what significance and impact they hold to this day. The centerpiece of the program is a specially commissioned work by composer Trevor Weston, which highlights the connection between traditional American hymn music and African American spirituals.

The further repertoire traces the development of American choral music, from black gospel quartets and shape-note singing to barbershop quartets and vocal jazz. It is complemented by arrangements of traditional bluegrass melodies and popular folk songs such as "Calling My Children Home" and "Shenandoah," as well as arrangements of modern classics of American music such as "Somebody to Love" by Queen and "Home" from The Wiz.

"The applause after each song reached some tsunami waves [...]. For every single one of the twelve (one) jurors, vocally operates as a soloist and as part of an ensemble, like a part of a clockwork. The intonation is perfect, free of impurities, the dynamic range, the palette of emotional expression seems endless and varies anew in its nuances." — Die Rheinpfalz

"They can do everything, these "roosters" after which Chanticleer is named. But they do not crow like vain roosters, but are proud singing roosters with special vocal virtues: a cultivated and balanced overall sound, precise, unmatched in its homogeneity across all vocal ranges, transparent in leading the voices and extraordinary in gradations of dynamics." — Markgräfler Tagblatt

General Info
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* Admission starts about 45 minutes before the beginning.
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Opening Hours
Monday - Friday: 9:00 - 17:00
Saturday: 9:00 - 12:00
(except holidays)

Discounts
Half-price pass
Especially for regular audience from the region, valid all year round. For only € 35.00 you can purchase your personal half-price pass for 2026, which is valid for many events! Events with agency participation as well as concerts that would not otherwise be economically viable are excluded.

OÖN-Card
15% discount

OÖ Senior Citizens' Association and OÖ Pensioners' Association
€ 2.00 discount on many events.

Guest Card
50% discount on presale only with personal registration at the Bad Schallerbach Tourist Office.

Ö1 Club
10% discount

Others
50% discount for children, youth, students, and people with disabilities.

For students of the Oö. State Music Schools under 18 years, a flat rate of € 5.00 applies when naming the music school and teacher.