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About The Chorale
 The Chorale is
the official concert choir of the University of Notre Dame. A concert
ensemble of 55 voices specializing in choral works from the Renaissance to
the present, it performs on campus a fall and spring concert with the Notre Dame Chamber Orchestra in the Leighton Concert Hall of the Marie P. DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts in November and April. In addition, the Chorale performs Handel's Messiah
with the Chamber Orchestra in the Leighton Concert Hall in early December.
Each year's
events include, besides the concerts on campus, a Winter Tour to distant cities in January, an evening concert on Friday of
Commencement Weekend and participation in the Baccalaureate Mass the next day. The Chorale also takes an
international tour every three or four years during the summer, which, in 1997, included cities in Italy (Rome, Orvieto, Spoleto, Assisi, Siena,
Florence, Venice, Padua). In May 2000 the Chorale traveled to southern France (Nice, Arles, Aix-en-Provence), Switzerland (Geneva), southern Germany (Munich, Passau), Austria (Salzburg) and northern Italy (Venice). In May 2005 the Chorale toured New Zealand's South Island, performing in Christchurch, Timaru, Dunedin, and Nelson. In May 2007 the Chorale will return to New Zealand, this time with concerts primarily in the North Island and sight-seeing in the South Island.
About The Director
 Alexander Blachly, the 1992 recipient
of the Noah Greenberg Award given by the American Musicological Society to
stimulate historically aware performances and the study of historical
performing practices, has been active in Early Music as both performer and
scholar for the past 34 years. He earned his post-graduate degrees in
musicology from Columbia University. He is the founder-director of the
internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble Pomerium, which is
recording an on-going series of compact discs of a cappella Renaissance
music. These recordings have appeared on the Glissando, Deutsche Grammophon/Archiv,
Dorian, Classic Masters, and Nonesuch labels. Prior to assuming the post of
Director of Choral Music at the University of Notre Dame in 1993, Mr. Blachly taught early music and directed collegia musica at Columbia
University, Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, Rutgers University
and the University of Pennsylvania, where for eight years he directed the a
cappella ensemble Ancient Voices. Mr. Blachly
directs the University of Notre Dame Chorale and Chamber Orchestra and
the Schola Musicorum (chant choir) of Notre Dame; has taught "Music History I
(Medieval & Renaissance), Music History III (Haydn to Debussy),
Performance Practice, Renaissance Notation, Freshman Fine Arts University
Seminar, sophomore Core, Music 122/222 (Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, Brahms), Music 30123 (Music History III), and Music 50101 (Vocal Sacred Music I—Gregorian Chant); and for eleven years he hosted a three-hour classical-music radio show each Wednesday
morning on the University's classical-music radio station, WSND 88.9 FM.
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