Greater Boston Choral Consortium FY20 Annual Meeting
June 27, 2020, 11:00am EST (via Zoom)
The following meeting materials can be accessed here:
- FY20 Financial Report
- FY21-23 Strategic Plan
- Presentation Slides
- Video Recording of meeting
Board Members / Staff Attending: Alison LaRosa, Nick Adams, Brad Dumont, Eric Perry, Jamie Hillman, Nathan Reiff, Tori Cook, Peter Smith, Lily Dearing
Members Attending / Choruses Represented: Nick Adams, Cantata Singers; Danica Buckley, Choral Art Society of the South Shore; Linda Haring, Cambridge Chamber Singers; Wayne Everett, Commonwealth Chorale; Tori Cook, Tanglewood Festival Chorus; Vincent James,australian online pokies payid Masterworks Chorale; Martin Heller, New England Classical Singers; Alison LaRosa, Night Song, King’s Chapel Choir, and Boston Choral Ensemble; Abby Gilbert, Westford Chorus; Robert Ward, Reading Community Singers; Jamie Hillman, Gordon College Choir, Gordon College Men’s Choir; Peter Smith, Back Bay Chorale; Nathan Reiff, Harvard Choruses/Boston Conservatory Choruses
Voting for new directors in absentia (via online survey): Anne Watson Born, Nashoba Valley Chorale; Peter Ambler, Arlington-Belmont Chorale; Tom Best, Spectrum Singers
Agenda:
- Announcements
- FY20 Year in Review and Financial Report
- Officers and New Director Nominees
- Tori Cook was voted in for a 3-year member-at-large term.
- The FY21 officers (previously voted on by the board) begin their 1-year term today.
- FY21-FY23 Strategic Plan Presentation
- Questions / Feedback
Meeting adjourned at 12:00pm.
Event description: “Tori Cook of Chorus Connection (author of “2020-21 Season Planning Guide for Community Choruses”) and Nick Adams, executive director of Cantata Singers, discuss contingency planning frameworks in the face of a constantly-evolving future for choral singing.”
Video and chat transcript of this event can be accessed here. Notes will be available soon!
Dear GBCC community,
As I prepare to step down from the GBCC Board of Directors at the end of June, I’d like to take a moment to thank you and reflect on the strength of Greater Boston’s choral community. When I joined the GBCC board in 2013 less than two years after moving to Boston, I didn’t know quite what I was stepping into. I was quickly blown away by the diversity of choral music in our region and the talented singers, leaders, volunteers, and patrons who make it happen. When I became GBCC chair in 2017, I was fortunate to benefit from the strong leadership before me of Anne Watson Born and several long-time directors. In collaboration with you, our members, and a stellar group of dedicated, whip-smart directors and staff, we’ve continued to fine-tune our small, but mighty operation in service of more than 5,000 choral musicians.
I’m obviously “preaching to the choir” in noting that people are at the heart of choral music. That we can harness such emotion with simply our bodies is an extraordinary gift! It’s easy these days to think that those coronavirus-shedding bodies are betraying us. But having reconnected with and found inspiration from many of you over Zoom these past few weeks, I am confident that using our indefatigable minds and hearts together we will find creative, moving, and more inclusive ways of sharing choral music in the not-too-distant future.
I hope to virtually see many of you at the annual meeting on June 27, and please join me in welcoming GBCC’s new officers. Until then stay strong, and just keep singing.
Alison LaRosa
Outgoing Chair
Event description: “In the spirit of collaboration that has long defined our Greater Boston choral community, GBCC is offering a second virtual convening where members can process the impact of COVID-19 on their chorus’s members, audiences, and operations and discuss ways we can help each other during this time.”