Winner of the 2009 and 2011 ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming, The Crossing is a twenty-four-member professional chamber choir conducted by Donald Nally. Formed by a group of friends in 2006, the ensemble was the resident choir of the Spoleto Festival, Italy in 2007 and has since expanded such collaborations exponentially, appearing last September at Miller Theatre of Columbia University in the American premiere of James Dillon’s Nine Rivers with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), at Bang on a Can’s first Philadelphia Marathon in 2010, and with Network for New Music during The Crossing’s annual Month of Moderns festival in 2012. 

The Crossing frequently commissions works and has presented recent world premieres by William Brooks, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Paul Fowler, Kamran Ince, Gabriel Jackson, David Lang (Pulitzer 2008), Lansing McLoskey, David Shapiro, Kile Smith and Lewis Spratlan (Pulitzer 2000). Upcoming premieres include works of John Luther Adams, Gavin Bryars, Gene Coleman, Ted Hearne, Chris Jonas, Francis Pott, and Joby Talbot; upcoming collaborations include PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Ensemble N_JP, Sun Spits Cherries, the Association of Anglican Musicians, Arts at The Park (New York), Dolce Suono, and Toshimaru Nakamura.

The Crossing has presented innovative partnerships with Lyric Fest, Piffaro, red fish blue fish, Philadelphia Virtuosi, and Tempesta di Mare Baroque Chamber Orchestra. They are the recipient of a 2012 Knight Foundation Challenge Grant to create projects at the Icebox of Crane Arts Center in Northern Liberties.  The Crossing’s concerts are all broadcast on WRTI 90.1 FM; their “Christmas Daybreak” – an hour-long Christmas Concert in collaboration with Pig Iron Theatre Company, hosted by Bill McGlaughlin – was broadcast internationally by PRI in December and will be released as a recording this coming Autumn.

Join us for the next concert and hear the difference for yourself.