Company Profile
The Crossing
Company Overview
The Crossing is a premier, internationally recognized choral ensemble known not only for its presentation of contemporary choral music, but also for commissioning and inspiring substantial new works for choirs in the U.S. Founded in 2005 by a group of friends, under its acclaimed artistic director and conductor, Donald Nally, the ensemble works with composers to create new ways for those composers to write, new ways for singers to perform, and new ways for audiences to experience that music. The ensemble focuses on and inspires engagement with environmental and political issues that affect us all. It has both a local and a global outlook. Its goals in the coming years include: continuing to commission works from composers of widely varying cultural, geographical and stylistic backgrounds; recording these commissioned works; touring; and maintaining the compensation of its singers at the highest level in the field.
Company History
The Crossing has appeared at Disney Hall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall and the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place with the American Composers Forum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Barnes Foundation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Gardner Museum in Boston, National Sawdust, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the Kennedy Center, the Mostly Mozart Festival and Lincoln Center Out of Doors. Next season the ensemble will appear at the National Gallery in Washington D.C., Northwestern University, and the Ojai Festival.
The Crossing is represented by Alliance Artist Management.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Ensembles with which The Crossing collaborates include: the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra, ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble), eighth blackbird, TILT Brass, JACK Quartet, and the baroque orchestra Quicksilver.
The Crossing has won three ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming (2009, 2011, and 2017), the Dale Warland Singers Commissioning Award from Chorus America (2013), the American Composers Forum 2017 Champion of New Music Award, and was nominated for Best Choral Performance for its album BONHOEFFER at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards (2017).