the rookery has featured
JOHN ORDUÑA
// bass
TOM CRAWFORD
// countertenor
TODD STURA
// tenor
JOE LABOZETTA
// baritone
KEITH MURPHY
// tenor
BILL CHIN
// baritone
MATTHEW DEAN
// tenor
NOEL TAYLOR
// bass
JOSEPH HUBBARD
// bass
GARRETT JOHANNSEN
// tenor
MIKE BYRLEY
// tenor
FRANK VILLELLA
// tenor
WAIN PARHAM
// tenor
NOLAN CARTER
// tenor
CARL FRANK
// baritone
MICHAEL BROWN
// arranger-in-residence
The Rookery was formed by Bill Chin and Matt Dean in 2011 from conductors and soloists from many area ensembles and singing traditions, including the Chicago Symphony Chorus, The Oriana Singers, Rockefeller Chapel Choir, Golosa Russian Choir, Chicago A Capella, Alioni Georgian Choir, Bella Voce, King Solomon's Singers, and the Schola Antiqua of Chicago. Each singer brings repertoire and artistic insight to the programming. The Rookery refers to both the iconic Chicago building (Burnham & Root, 1888) and its namesake roosting songbirds, keeping good company in the big city.
the rookery festival chorus
The Rookery Festival Chorus, a larger configuration of the leading lower voices in Chicago, is also available for symphonic, festival, recording, and outreach needs. Sweeping chorales for a film score? 80 tenors in masks for your Carmina Burana revisualization? Video game music tour? High Holidays? Keeping barbershop music and lower voices in harmony alive in our schools? Opera production? Please contact Bill Chin at info@rookerychoir.org for more information.