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Voce Chamber Singers Receives Grant to Support Local Community
April 25, 2023 — Voce Chamber Singers is proud to announce that we are a recipient of The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia’s grant program.
The Community Foundation has awarded $763,969 in grants to 44 local organizations through its 2023 Community Investment Funds (CIF), Environment Fund, and Ross-Roberts Fund for the Arts, helping support broad-based needs and address complex social issues across the region. This work addresses two of the core pillars of the Community Foundation’s strategic work— to build community resilience and advance social and economic mobility for all of Northern Virginia’s residents.
As the Community Foundation’s core grants program, funds are invested in organizations serving the Northern Virginia community in the areas of Aging, Arts, Child and Youth Development, Education, Environment, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Mental Health, Military Personnel and Families, and Safety Net to Support Basic Needs.
This represents the largest ever discretionary grants cycle in the Community Foundation’s history, and an increase of about $100,000 in awards since 2022.
The growth of this discretionary grants program is possible due to the Permanent Fund for Northern Virginia, a permanent endowment that the Community Foundation is developing to support our region.
Thank you for joining our 2022-23 Season, “A Year of Renewal”!
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Thanks to our experienced team of audio engineers and video editors, our performance videos this year were extremely effective and received more than one thousand views within the very first week of posting. Internationally renowned composer Jake Runestad shared our recording of his composition “Come to the Woods” on Earth Day 2023. This interactive and easily accessible content has expanded Voce’s organizational reach and renewed the enthusiasm of our audiences in between our in-person events.
You, our audiences, volunteers, donors, and supporters, made this season a ringing success. We couldn’t have done it without you!
Read on for highlights from the year:
Praiseworthy Performances
In 2023, Voce was a nominee for “Best DEI Programming” for the Greater Washington Area Choral Excellence Awards. Voce was also recognized this year as a finalist for the American Prize in Choral Performance, among a short list of community choirs across the United States recognized for their outstanding performances during the 2022-2023 season.
Thrilling New Recordings
Outreach Performances
Voce continued our outreach work in our community this year by offering a free President’s Day weekend performance at a senior living center in Fairfax, VA. This annual tradition enables our singers to interact with individuals in memory care or assisted living while making meaningful connections through popular tunes from by-gone eras.
We also continued our tradition of outreach performances at the Willard Hotel in Washington D.C. performing carols and leading sing-alongs with guests visiting the nation’s capital during December.
Our 2023 Youth Choral Festival took place on April 15, 2023 at Centreville High School. Over 150 students from five visiting Northern Virginia High Schools rehearsed and performed alongside our adult ensemble in a one-day, intergenerational choral festival.
Our Festival was offered at no cost to the students and included sheet music, expert clinicians, lunch, and an open performance at the end of the day that was professionally recorded for friends and family. This event was made possible due to a supporting grant from Virginia Commission for the Arts.
Stay Tuned: We’ll be back in October with more innovative programming for the 35th anniversary season of Voce Chambers Singers!
With gratitude,
David Mann, Artistic Director
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