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André de Quadros: Artistic Director
VOICES 21C is an artists’ collective that is devoted to exercising the choral art in pursuit of human rights and justice, dedicated to a mission of global understanding through music. ​

​We explore improvisational and interdisciplinary modes of music making and collaboration, through co-creating and utilizing an egalitarian consensus model.

"Bridging and Breaking"

with Truth and Onyx White

Spring 2023 Performances in Rhode Island, Boston, and Worcester
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Boston's 5th Annual "VOICES OF HUMANITY" Interfaith Concert

Sunday May 7, 2023 at the Vilna Shul
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ABOUT US

In a time when American ideals are epitomized by nationalism and aggression, VOICES 21C aligns itself with the great American voices of compassion, love, and non-violence.
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VOICES 21C is a Boston-based choral artists collective that seeks to combine high technical proficiency with creativity and compassion. The ensemble exercises choral art in pursuit of human rights with collaborators across borders and behind prison walls.

VOICES 21C has served as the primary developer of the
Empowering Song Approach to music education, using choral art, narrative, poetry, creative songwriting, and physical storytelling in educational workshops and performances to give voice to silenced stories, make space for dialogue, and strengthen communities.

The ensemble creates personal meaning in performance by connecting its musical messages to social justice issues locally and abroad, centering the voices of the silenced, the forgotten, and the marginalized.

​VOICES 21C blends the choral art with imaginative and innovative practices, borrowing from kinesthetic art and theatre. VOICES 21C is a welcoming space for LGBTQIA+, committed to contemporary composers, and to improvisational, interdisciplinary modes of performance through a co- creating, egalitarian consensus model.

Learn more about us here
VOICES21C · "We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest" 2020, ACDA Rochester
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2023: VOICES 21C in Sri Lanka
Sama International Choral Festival

In July of 2023, VOICES 21C will participate in the Sama International Choral Festival: a one-week music festival bringing together singers and instrumentalists from across the globe. VOICES 21C will continue our long partnership with the Muslim Choral Ensemble through this festival, along with facilitating work with music schools and incarceration facilities in the region. ​

​VOICES 21C extends its work as one of the only choirs to engage deeply with singers from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Iran, through long sustained relationships and interpersonal investment in global cultural equity through music. 

Along with grants and formal sponsorships, V21C has published a GoFundMe to support our time in Sri Lanka. See updates below:
GOFUNDME
Past Engagements: VOICES 21C at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Thursday, November 3, 2022
7:00pm - Free Admission


VOICES 21C's performance is inspired by Titus Kaphar: The Jerome Project, which presents a series of extraordinary portraits painted by artist Titus Kaphar that interrogate the absence of incarcerated individuals from the social fabric of the United States. The event will include a performance and talkback with both Eric Anderson and Truth, two formerly incarcerated artists and collaborators.
Reserve Tickets (Free)
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Titus Kaphar: Jerome I, 2014. Oil, tar, and gold leaf on panel.

2020-2021 Digital Collaborations

Unity As Fragile As A Spark - June 2021

Digital Collaboration with Lauren Fields and VOICES 21C 
Poetry: "Smoking Car: After Frances Ellen Watkins Harper" by Lauren Fields  
Creative Facilitation, Audio Production, and Video Design: Michael Genese 

The eight minute work explores several interconnected themes, among which the idea of being simultaneously bound to something, while also being bound for something else. Body hierarchy, racism, and modern manifestations of slavery and segregation such as mass-incarceration and American policing, together paint an intersectional picture of “progress that isn’t really progress” that we must reconcile with as a nation.

Collabortion with Sister Cities Girl Choir: More information on this collaboration available in the When I Sing concert program book. 
The Choral Commons Podcast: Creative Responses composed, improvised, led, and sung by members of VOICES 21C
VOICES21C · The Choral Commons - Creative Responses
"Extra Credit" | Farrah Karapetian, VOICES 21C

Extra Credit, 2020, video, 20:20 from farrah karapetian on Vimeo.

VOICES 21C Virtual Collaboration - edited by Cheryl Engelhardt
VOICES21C · Response: Episode 1 of Choral Commons - Jeremy Haneman


​VOICES 21C are proud creative partners with The Choral Commons, crafting creative responses to their conversations on choral music, as their first ensemble in residence.

VOICES 21C IS ON PATREON!

Exclusive content, rehearsal footage, guest list access, what's not to love? V21C has chosen Patreon to create a long term support network, funding our international appearances, operating costs, and reimbursement for our 100% volunteer roster. You will not want to miss this! Click here to visit our Patreon page. 
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  • Home
  • ABOUT
    • Singers
  • PROJECTS
    • 2023 Bridging and Breaking — Collegiate Performances
    • 2022 ACDA Conference (Boston)
    • 2020 ACDA Conference
    • 2019 Choralies Festival
    • 2018 Mexico City
    • 2017 Here I Am
    • 2016 Pain & Promise
  • V21C Pedagogy and Empowering Song
  • 2022-23 Singers Portal
  • Testimonials