Choral Chameleon was founded in 2008 in NYC by Artistic Director Vince Peterson. We’re a 12-voice professional vocal ensemble and a 50-voice semi-professional chorus. We also run annual Institutes for composers and conductors, so we are also major music nerds.
This is our thirteenth Season and the timing couldn’t be more poetic.

We like to live up to our name, and our belief remains undaunted in the transformative power of music made by humans using their bodies as the instrument, speaking to shared human themes. We invite you to hitch a ride through the uncertainty ahead with us.

'LUCKY THIRTEEN' Season features two new season-long musical series 'TASTE2' and 'WOVEN' speaking to the parallel experience of wanting to enhance our home life while having to stay socially-distant, as well as our societal need for inter-connectedness.

They combine both physical and digital elements, to ground the experience in the real world while our performances must be delivered digitally. Music vignettes will be released every month from 8 recording sessions, so our patrons are directly funding the recording/release cycle.

Our mission remains to reinvent the art of choral music from every perspective and one of the ways we love to do this is through collaboration. Our collaborators and hosts for the Season are ‘The Taste Curators’.

YOUR SUPPORT

All patrons participating any ANY level will enable us to physically and safely record all of the music in person in a professional studio and to present content from our collaborators through the medium of video. We are conducting studio recording sessions with 4 singers at a time, every month, for 8 months.It is a true season-long journey, and your ongoing patronage will make this possible. You will also be supporting the development of these projects and the livelihoods of our professional musicians, conductors, videographers, collaborators and administrator.

ABOUT OUR SERIES:

TASTE2 / Chef Lish Steiling / The Ensemble

We are thrilled to be working again with Lish to create a new edition of our most-requested program for revival: 'TASTE', originally presented in 2014, which paired bespoke and complex 'bites' that evoked specific textures and flavors of the music.
In TASTE2 - the audience is the chef - each musical episode will pair with a single course. Across the season, we're inviting our patrons to prepare an entire meal designed by Lish and to consume it simultaneously with our musical vignettes.
Lish is an expert when it comes to creating recipes for TV, from the Today Show to Giada di Laurentiis, and is the perfect host to guide us through the creation and presentation of each course!
Music plans we can share so far:
- October 23rd: Cocktail & Appetizer // 'Three by Langston' by Ricky Ian Gordon
- December 5th: Entrée // complete choral dances from 'Gloriana' by Benjamin Britten

WOVEN / Trend Forecaster Abbey Cook / The Chorus

Abbey is partnering with us for each vignette release to explore the elements of weaving: color, artisanship, pattern and texture.
Having travelled to over 50 countries scouting design inspiration for several fashion designers and companies, Abbey has also tapped into her global network to source a completely custom woven keepsake for Choral Chameleon, which will be made by hand in Colombia for our 'Close to You' and 'BFF' patrons to receive at Season end. [Our 'Close to You' tier essentially covers the cost of manufacture, handling and mainland US shipping of our keepsake items. Additional cost of overseas shipping and to Alaska/Hawaii will be processed separately].
All of the music in the highly diverse program for the woven series speaks to our shared experience as humans – for the planet, our communities and our relationships.
Music plans we can share so far:
- November 19th: Color
  - 'Earthsong' by Frank Ticheli
  - 'It Takes a Village' by Joan Szymko
  - 'Look to This Day' by Doug McConnell
- January 28th: Pattern
  - 'Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun: Take Me Away' by Michael Hennagin
  - 'Fragile' by Sting - world premiere arrangement by Vince Peterson
  - 'No One is Alone' from 'Into the Woods' by Stephen Sondheim