Chamber Singers win national award

The ECU Chamber Singers

The East Carolina University Chamber Singers, conducted by Andrew Crane in the School of Music, has been awarded the American Prize in Choral Performance, College/University Division.

The American Prize provides recognition for best recorded performances of music in the United States. Awarded annually, the prize was founded in 2009 and is administered by Hat City Music Theatre in Danbury, Conn.

The Chamber Singers at ECU includes 34 – 40 auditioned singers, many of them voice majors. The group tours annually and has performed by invitation at regional and national conferences of the American Choral Directors Association and the National Association for Music Education.

The second and third place winners in the division were, respectively, Saint Mary’s College Women’s Choir of Notre Dame and the University of Washington Chorale.

For additional information, visit http://theamericanprize.org/.