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Music is a primal art, central to every human culture, and singing is its most primal form: unmediated by any instrument, rising directly from our lungs, throats and souls.

But from this primal simplicity an extraordinary body of compositions has emerged over the centuries — the choral literature that weaves many voices together into haunting and sonorous tapestries of sound — one of the highest achievements of human civilization.

The singers of Illumine Vocal Arts Ensemble have prepared for our community concert programs of some of the most beautiful choral music ever written, because this music is our joy, a profound expression of the human spirit, and a light no darkness can put out.

Our concerts have been densely attended and keenly enjoyed. Clifton Noble wrote in his review of February 2018's Rachmaninov All-Night Vigil, “The breathless silence that blessed the cadence of the final movement before the church erupted in a lengthy standing ovation testified to the profound effect of the music on all those present.”

Though many of us are professional musicians, we are not paid for this work. We do pay our conductor, our accompanist, and other instrumentalists; we also pay for rehearsal and performance space.

The money you help us raise will allow us to continue to explore extraordinary repertoire rigorously and with passion.

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Illumine Vocal Arts Ensemble

PO Box 1205

Amherst, MA 01004

FOUNDING DONORS

Candlelight ($25–$99)

Sarah Boy

Greg Brown & Mary Hubbell

Bruce & Wendy Durfee

Chris Krueger & Jane Bryden

Annie Philips

Ellen Story

Firelight ($100–$249)

Anonymous

Stephen & Suzanna Adams

Joanne Bollinger

K.C. Conlan

Benjiman Durfee

Martha & Newton Frohlich

Paul Knaplund

Bruce & Alexandra Lyman

Rebecca Markarian

Moshe Wurgaft

Starlight ($250–$499)

Robert & Silvia Brinkerhoff

Ronna & Neal Erickson

Sarah Metcalf

Edwin Wilfert

Moonlight ($500–$999)

Philip Stoddard

Aurora Borealis ($1000–$2499)

Manuel & Susan Andrade

Shirley Griffin

Rachel Peterson & Roger Bird