Chandos Singers
Chandos Singers,inaugurated in 2006, is a chamber ensemble of approximately four singers per part selected from the larger Handel Choir. The group often performs in smaller concert venues as an emissary of Handel Choir and in repertoire more suitable for a smaller ensemble.
Chandos Singers have performed several works with period instrument orchestras, including two of Handel's Coronation Anthems, My Heart is Inditing and The King Shall Rejoice; Bach Cantata BWV 12, Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen; Bach's "Jesu, meine Freude" BWV 227 and a cappella works by Tavener, Messiaen, Duruflé and Randall Thompson. In 2010, Chandos Singers sang a staged performance of Handel's Jephtha in a collaboration with American Opera Theater and the Ignoti Dei Orchestra of period instruments.
The name is derived from the Duke of Chandos, an important patron of G.F. Handel when he first moved to London from Germany.
All programs of the Handel Choir of Baltimore are made possible by support from the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, the Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences and the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts.