have questions about WHAT YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR VOCE will DO?
here are the answers:
Create Harmony: In a world suffering from discord, Voce invites its audiences to share the warmth of its unique sound and to experience the healing power of Harmony. Voce’s mission is to Serve Harmony: we believe that different voices, working together for a common goal, make a difference in people’s lives. You can help Voce share the experience of Harmony with others in concert and through its recordings.
Bring the best choral composers in the world to New England: Voce works with the world’s finest choral composers – including Morten Lauridsen, Ola Gjeilo, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Paul Mealor, Thomas LaVoy, Eric Whitacre, Dan Forrest and Patrick Hawes – thanks to support for Voce’s Composer-in-Residence program.
Open the exciting world of choral music to young musicians: In 2021 Voce partnered with Miles Wilson-Toliver and leaders in Hartford’s neighborhoods to found Voices of Hartford - a choral community for young minority musicians living and working in the Hartford area. By providing young singers with a safe space, mentorship, training, and an experience of choral singing at its highest level, Voices of Hartford’s goal is to empower its singers to realize their goals in the world of music and beyond. Voce’s other educational initiatives – including “Principles of Harmony,” an in-school coaching experience to help young singers prepare for concert; and its Music Educators Festival which brings high school and collegiate choirs together for a day of choral workshops – provide young singers throughout New England with the opportunity to work closely with Artistic Director Mark Singleton and Voce’s singers. Students and youth ages 18 and under regularly attend Voce’s concerts for free or at a greatly reduced price, adding to the diversity of Voce’s audiences – a diversity uncommon in classical music audiences which promises a bright future for the choral arts.
Bring new works of music to life: Voce regularly premieres new works in concert and through its recordings. Even in the face of COVID, choral music is enjoying a renaissance and the new harmonic compositions Voce performs contribute greatly to the health and growth of choral music.
Send Voce’s music to choral music lovers across the world: Voce’s most current album - Blessing: The Music of Paul Mealor - was released by its new label, Signum Classics and has been streamed over well over one million times around the world. Plans for more recordings are already in the works! Voce may be the only Hartford-based classical ensemble with albums reaching thousands of listeners across the globe.
Grow New England’s reputation for excellence in the choral arts: Voce is proud to be part of a vibrant choral arts scene in New England, which includes excellent professional ensembles, chorales, choral education programs and choirs performing sacred works in houses of worship. Voce and its partners in the choral arts are good news for New England!
Voce can only realize these goals with the support of donors like you. Unlike larger not-for-profits, we do not have an endowment and every gift is put straight to work to support our programming. Voce has long been committed to keeping its administrative expenses to an absolute minimum, which means your dollars go straight to the product – be it a concert, a recording, or a student workshop – where they can do the most good.
If you would like to contact Voce directly about making a donation please contact Thomas Cooke, President of the Board, via e-mail at thoscooke2@gmail.com, via telephone at (860) 335-7256 or via regular mail at Voce, c/o Thomas F. Cooke, President, PO Box 584, Mystic, CT 06355.
Prefer to make a gift of stock? Please contact Harold L. Rives III, Treasurer, Voce, Inc. at hrivesiii@gmail.com