Bella Voce Singers is a women's choir based in Brooklyn, New York. The choir gives numerous concerts throughout the year, including regularly scheduled performances in the Park Slope and Bay Ridge neighborhoods of Brooklyn.
The choir originated as an all-female teen group when Founding Director Jessica Corbin was teaching at New York City's F. H. La Guardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts. When Jessica left La Guardia in 2001, the choir followed her to Brooklyn, where they continued to grow and perform, eventually being named one of the top high-school age choirs in New York City and performing with the Orchestra of St. Luke's at Carnegie Hall. As the Bella Voce members began to graduate and move on to college, many decided that they still wanted to sing together, so the choir expanded to include all women ages 18 and up.
Bella Voce is now a 32-member multigenerational group dedicated to excellence in choral singing. Our mission is to enrich and educate our members and our audiences by performing a diverse repertoire with an emphasis on contemporary choral composers such as Gwyneth Walker, Eric Whitacre, Nick Page and Jackson Berkey, and by bringing other new and lesser-known works to the community. We have performed with many choirs including the New York Treble Singers, the Davidson Singers, Damkoren SALT (from Sweden), and Coro Musa (from Japan), and we are a regular participant in the bi-annual New York Women and Girls' Choir Festival. Bella Voce Singers plans to release its first CD recording in the spring of 2010.
The choir rehearses on Monday nights from 7–9 pm at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Bella Voce Singers auditions new members twice a year.