Welcome

The Orpheus Singers is a Boston based chamber choir of skilled amateur and paid professional singers. We have a 3 week rehearsal period (Tu and Th evenings) followed by a concert, Fall and Spring, followed by a fallow period. Our repertory includes music from the 15th century to the present, contrapuntal to non-triadic. We sing both a cappella or with continuo instruments.

Auditions
We are constantly searching for new members. If you would like to audition please contact the music director, James Olesen, at (617) 666-4617 or olesen@brandeis.edu.
The audition includes a prepared solo selection, scales, intervals and sight-reading both tonal and atonal.

Our name is taken from the Greek hero, Orpheus, first poet and musician, who could charm nature, make the oaks dance and the rocks listen, who could bend the will of gods. While it isn’t possible for any mere mortals to attain this standard, it is possible to hold it as an ideal.