Spring 2023 Concert: Singing Our Superpowers

Sunday, April 23, 4:00 pm

Grace United Methodist Church

300 E. Gartner Road, Naperville

This program explored themes of love, faith, wonder, imagination, and hope through vocal works from five centuries by composers including Purcell, Dowland, Massenet, Stroope, Carly Simon, and Dolly Parton. Missa Brevis: Songs of the Enslaved, by Founding Conductor/Artistic Director Philip Spencer, also had its Naperville premiere. The 35-voice auditioned choir, composed of professional and volunteer singers from twenty Chicago-area communities, was accompanied by Collaborative Percussionist Shelley May Hutchison, Collaborative Pianist Valerie Lorimer, and featured College Student Conducting Intern Jean Garcera and High School Student Instrumental Intern clarinetist Cameron Hejny. 

Proceeds benefitted the local charitable nonprofit Kids Above All, building better lives for kids through therapeutic programs, housing support, and education.

Inaugural 2022 Concert: Gather in Gratitude

Sunday, November 20, 3:00 pm

Grace United Methodist Church

300 E. Gartner Road, Naperville

This nearly sold-out performance included a variety of choral music selected with the theme of “gratitude”: for home, for love, for the gift of song, for moments in time. The thirty-five auditioned members of NaperVoice sang music from genres including classical, gospel, musical theater, and vocal jazz, by Brahms, Whitacre, Rutter, Runestad, Powell, and other significant composers. A professional percussionist, an award-winning pianist, and a gifted high school violinist accompanied the choir, with kids in the audience invited to learn and play a typical Cuban rhythm on small instruments for one selection. Our talented College/University Student Conductor Intern, Nazarii Mykhailenko, also conducted the choir on one work.

Proceeds benefited this concert’s designated local charitable organization, Feed My Starving Children.