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Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble
The Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble (CVAE) is a regionally acclaimed chamber choir dedicated to
excellence in the choral art. Founded in 1992 by Deborah Jenkins Teske, an accomplished
conductor of choral music and opera, CVAE is committed to artistic excellence and community
involvement. » more
A superb ensemble, not afraid of musical challenge, who express astounding professionalism
and courage in performing repertoire from Renaissance to avant-garde.
F. Joseph
Docksey
Director of the University of Denver Lamont School of Music
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Chamber Orchestra of the Springs: ODE TO JOY
with the Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble
Saturday, February 22 AND Sunday, February 23 First United Methodist Church
420 N.
Nevada Ave
Tickets: Adult $20; Seniors $17; Youth (24 & under) $5. Available online at
www.chamberorchestraofthesprings.org
or at the door.Call (719) 633-3649
Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium Mid Winter Songs
Deborah Teske, guest conductor
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, op. 125 "Choral"
Colorado Vocal Arts
Ensemble
Judeth Shay Comstock--soprano
Valerie Nicolosi--mezzo-soprano
Jason Baldwin-tenor
antoine Hodge--bass
Pre-concert Lecture: Michael Grace
New: Labyrinth: Journey Into the Light CD now
available at: CD Baby
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ABOUT
Founded in 1992 by Artistic Director Deborah Jenkins Teske, the Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble
is dedicated to traditional choral works and new, innovative programming. While remaining
primarily an a cappella chamber ensemble, CVAE performs with other organizations on a regular
basis. Past collaborations have included work with the Colorado Springs Children’s Chorale, the
Chamber Orchestra of the Springs, The Denver Brass, Ormao Dance Company, and the
Colorado Youth Ballet.
Dedicated to educational outreach, CVAE has shared the choral art with thousands of community
members. CVAE was honored to serve a year-long appointment as Visiting Ensemble-inResidence at Colorado College for the 2008–2009 academic year. The ensemble returned to the
college again for the months of October and November, 2011, to present a collaborative concert
with the Colorado College Chamber Chorus. Voice, Verse and Vision, a multimedia arts
collaboration involving singers, poets, visual artists, and composers, received Chorus America’s
Education Outreach Award for 2003. This prestigious award brought CVAE national recognition
for a highly effective program at minimal cost. In addition, CVAE’s successful high school
residency program, Gateways, mentors secondary choral programs throughout the area.
CVAE was the recipient of the Pikes Peak Arts Council’s Arts/Business/Education award for
2003, the Arts Council’s award for Best Concert by a Small Ensemble, first in 2005 for
Wintersong, in 2010 for The Color of Grace, a Taylor Memorial Series concert, and most recently
for Voices of Light in 2011 with the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs.
In addition to regular concert performances, CVAE has established a wide range of community
outreach programs, including their popular The Mysterious Musical Machine, and the awardwinning Voice, Verse, and Vision, a multimedia arts collaboration involving student poets, and
professional artists and composers. A new high school residency program, The Art of Chamber
Singing, allows CVAE members to serve as mentors to outstanding high school choirs in the
Colorado Springs area.
Deborah Jenkins Teske
Artistic Director
is founder and artistic director of the Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble, a chamber choir of 26–30
auditioned voices with a national reputation for excellence in performance and educational
outreach. She is Director of Choirs at Colorado College, where she conducts the Colorado
College Choir and Chamber Chorus and teaches conducting. Ms. Teske has served as guest
conductor and clinician for high school level honor choirs, and also as an adjudicator with the
Heritage Music Festivals. Her opera and musical theater credits include guest conductor with the
Colorado Opera Festival for productions of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Mozart’s The Magic Flute,
Britten’s The Turn of the Screw and Handel’s Semele. She serves regularly as Chorus Master for
Opera Theatre of the Rockies. Ms. Teske holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Music from Pomona
College and a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
BOARD PAGE:
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Brooke Graves – Secretary
brooke@cvae.org
Judy Gudvangen – President
judy@cvae.org
John LeFevre
john@cvae.org
Wendy Mike
wendy@cvae.org
Polly Ogden – Treasurer
Geoffrey@cvae.org
Jeffery Payne – Vice President
Jeffrey@cvae.org
Deborah Test – Director
Deborah@cvae.org
2013-2014 Concert Schedule
Northern Horizons
CVAE's 21st season opens with this bold program featuring choral music from Scandinavia and the Baltics. Ope
music by Edvard Grieg, the program then ventures into new and unexplored territory with works by Valts Puce,
others.
Sunday, October 13, 2013 - 3:00 p.m.
Grace and St. Stephens Episcopal Church
631 N. Tejon, Colorado Spr
gratefully accepted
Wintersong: A Celebration of the Season
Combining music and spoken word in the splendor of Shove Chapel by candlelight, this award-winning event h
tradition.
Friday, December 20, 2013 - 7:30 p.m.
AND
Sunday, December 22, 2013 - 4:30 p.m.
Shove Memorial Chap
Nevada, Colorado Springs
Admission is free, donations gratefully accepted
Ode to Joy!
Guest appearance with the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs
Thomas Wilson, conductor
Morten Lauridsen O
Lauridsen Mid-Winter Songs
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, op. 125 “Choral”
Saturday, February 22, 2014 - 7:00 p.m.
AND
Sunday, February 23, 2014 - 2:30 p.m.
First United Methodist
and information, please visit www.chamberorchestraofthesprings.org
Reincarnations
Presented by the Taylor Memorial Concert Series of Grace and St. Stephens Episcopal Church
Sunday, May 4, 2014 - 3:00 p.m.
Grace and St. Stephens Episcopal Church
631 N. Tejon, Colorado Springs
gratefully accepted
Contact Us
For more information about the Colorado Vocal Arts Ensemble, contact us at:
E-mail: cvaeorg@gmail.com
Phone: 719.577.4192
Mailing: CVAE
PO Box 1610
Monument, CO 80132
Board of Directors:
Brooke Graves - Secretary brooke@cvae.org
Judy Gudvangen - President
judy@cvae.org
John LeFevre john@cvae.org
Wendy Mike wendy@cvae.org
Polly Ogden - Treasurer
geoffrey@cvae.org
Jeffery Payne - Vice-President jeffery@cvae.org
Deborah Teske - Director deborah@cvae.org
Repertoire Page:
Repertoire
1992 - 2008
Lydia Adams
Miq’mak Honour Song
Gregorio Allegri
Miserere
Morten Lauridsen
Dominic Argento
Peter Quince at the
Clavier
Sonnet No.LXIV
O magnum mysterium
William Averitt
Afro-American
Poems
J.S. Bach
Komm, Jesu, Komm
Jesu, meine Freude
Lobet den Herren
Samuel Barber
Adagio
Six “Fire Songs” on Italian Renaissance
Ubi Caritas
Leevi Madetoja
De profundis
Frank Martin
Bela Bartok
Four Slovak Folksongs
Songs of Ariel
Herbert Beattie
Three Elizabethan Madrigals,
sets I and II
Mass for Double Choir
Nativitie
Odd Animals
Jean Belmont
Electa
Richard Rodney Bennett
Out of your sleep
Susanni
Jean Berger
Who’s Who in the Zoo
Leonard Bernstein
Chichester Psalms
William Billings
The Rose of Sharon
David’s Lamentation
The Bird
Bethlehem
Shiloh
Johannes Brahms
Nanie
Rhapsodie
Michael McGlynn
Incantations
Christus 2000
Dulaman
Felix Mendelssohn
Weihnachten
EJ Moeran
Songs of Spring Time
Claudio Monteverdi
Ballo
Confitebor tibi, Domino
Donna Nunez
Waves
Gyorgy Orban
Ave Regina
Daemon irrepit callidus
Lauda Sion
Daniel Pederson
Sweet and Twenty
Ildebrando Pizzetti
Messa di Requiem
Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op.52
O Heiland reiss die Himmel auf
Wo ist ein so herrlich Volk
Benjamim Britten
Francis Poulenc
Un soir de Neige
Quatre chansons pour le temp du Noel
Hymn to St. Cecilia
Quatre chansons pour le temps du
penitence
A Ceremony of Carols
Quatre petit priers de Saint Francois d’Assise
Five Flower Songs
Salve Regina
A Hymn to the Virgin
Sergei Rachmaninoff
A Boy Was Born (excerpts)
Vespers, Op. 37 (excerpts)
William Byrd
Maurice Ravel
Mass for four voices
Trois Chansons
Mass for five voices
John Rutter
Ryan Capp
When Icicles Hang (excerpts)
Leviathan
Rob Ryder
Reflections
If You Fall Down
My Pretty Dandelion
Two Haiku
Giacomo Carissimi
Camille Saint-Saens
Jephthah
Two songs, op. 62
Pablo Casals
Steven Sametz
O vos omnes
Gaudete
John Chorbajian
Peter Schikele
Bitter for Sweet
Jonah’s Song
Aaron Copland
William Schuman
In the Beginning
The Last Invocation
Claude Debussy
Heinrich Schutz
Trois Chansons
Selig sind die Toten
Josquin des Prez
Die mit Tranen Saen
Missa Pange Lingua
Deutsches Magnificat
Ave Maria
Cantate Domino
Praeter rerum seriem
Jauchzet dem Herrn
Gabriel Faure
The Christmas Story
Madrigal
John Tavener
Irving Fine
Today the Virgin
Have You Seen the White Lily Grow?
Little Lamb
Ross Lee Finney
Randall Thompson
Spherical Madrigals
Frostiana (excerpts)
Tom Flaherty
The Last Invocation
A Timbered Choir
David Tovey
The Peace of Wild Things
In The Flowr
Orlando Gibbons
What is our life
Eric Whitacre
Alberto Ginastera
Leonardo Dreams of his flying Machine
Lamentaciones de Jeremias Propheta
Lux Arumque
Louis Grams
Sleep
Snow
Water Night
George Frideric Handel
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Dixit Dominus
Come Away, Death
Let thy hand be strengthened
The Willow Song
Chandos Anthem No. 9
Wassail Song
Franz Josef Haydn
The Turtle Dove
Mass in Time of War
Loch Lomond
Charles Ives
Tomas Luis de Victoria
Psalm 69
Missa O Magnum Mysterium
Clement Janequin
Peter Warlock
Le Chant des Oiseuix
Bethlehem Down
Kenneth Jennings
Motets by:
Two Dylan Thomas Laments
William Byrd
Craig Hella Johnson
G.P. Palestrina
Hard times Come Again No More
Orlando Gibbons
Judith Kramer
Thomas Tallis
Bahyooshkie Bahyoo
Tomas Luis de Victoria
Phoenix Fire
Hans Leo Hassler
Orlando di Lasso
J. P. Sweelinck
Josquin des Prez
Paplo Casals
Carlo Gesualdo
Madrigals by:
John Farmer
Henry Purcell
Thomas Morley
Cipriano da Rore
Robert Ramsey
Thomas Weelkes
John Wilbye
Claudio Monteverdi
Spirituals, Traditional Hymns, Folk Songs and
Christmas Carols from America, Finland,
France, England, Holland, Ireland, Australia,
Germany, Scotland, Russia, Czechoslovakia
and China