Auditions for the 2024-2025 season have concluded. We anticipate holding auditions for the 2025-2026 season in Mid-2025. Stay tuned for more details!
Who are our general membership singers? What are we looking for?
We are looking for singers who are 18 years of age or older who can contribute to rehearsals and performances in a positive way. We seek singers who understand that performing in a chorus means giving themselves over to the ensemble. Please note that we will not be able to accept everyone who auditions for our general membership. However, we are happy to provide feedback to everyone who auditions.
Requirements for a General Membership Audition
You will notice that this is not your standard type of audition. We do not want to only hear you sing a solo, rather we want to hear all that you would bring to a choral ensemble. A successful chorus is a wonderful mix of strengths, sounds, and spirits, and we want you to be able to share yours with us.
Expect your audition to last about 10 minutes. Music Director Dr. Adam Luebke and an accompanist will be present to guide you through the audition requirements:
- My Country Tis of Thee - You will be asked to sing the melody using music that we'll provide at the audition. The panel is listening for vocal color, diction, intonation, and expressive singing. This does not need to be memorized.
- Vocalizing - The panel will guide you through warm-ups to listen to your range, vocal color and intonation.
- Rhythm Reading - You will receive a 4 measure rhythm upon arrival at the audition space and be asked to perform it for the panel.
- Ear Training - The panel will play 4 melodies of 4 to 5 notes and ask you to sing them back.
- Sing Bach - Before the audition, learn your part to a Bach chorale in English (score is available here) and sing it. Our pianist will play with you. The panel is listening for vocal color, diction, intonation, and expressive singing. If you have not prepared the Bach Chorale, you will be excused.
Why Audition for the BPC?
"This group is welcoming, hard working, and a lovely group of musicians with a wide variety of backgrounds. Sure, we are a Grammy-award winning choir, performing across borders, but more than that, we are a community with one common goal: to make music for others and for ourselves."
"We get to sing choral masterpieces with a world-class orchestra in a world-class building, and we have won a Grammy doing it. It is something that touches people's lives, something you can be immensely proud of, and something you can do over much of your lifetime."
"If you love singing, BPC is a place to work hard as a group towards something excellent."
"The simple answer is the joy that comes from creating something beautiful as part of a whole, but you have to include the people you will meet from all walks of life, the friendships you will form, the inspiration from the talent of the people you will sit next to, the development of your own ability, the opportunity for involvement with the governance of a cultural non-profit, the reward of singing with world-class orchestras, the thrill of knowing you are with a Grammy-winning ensemble."
"Because of the camaraderie, the music, the people and the opportunity to perform with some of the best singers and musicians in our nation."
Interested in Auditioning?
Click the link HERE to submit an audition form!