C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective

C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective Presenting the best of contemporary choral music written within the last 25 years.

06/17/2026

We can hardly be-AMEN AMEN-lieve that our 20th anniver-AMEN AMEN-sary season closes out this Friday and Sa-AMEN AMEN AMEN-turday! You won’t want to miss AMEN AMEN AMEN it!

Music for people who like the future
composed by Andrew Hamilton,
conducted by Martha Sullivan.

06/16/2026

Get a look at (or listen of) the amazing space we will be singing in on Saturday! Kamakatawaka’ is a sonic reflection on the cultural and linguistic resistance of the Totonac people in the face of historical processes of colonization, evangelization, and Westernization. With text by Totonac poet Manuel Espinosa Sainos, and music by C4 IGNITE winner Julio Morales! Soloists in order are Sarah Sotomayor, Mithuna Sivaraman, and Karen Siegel.

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Julio Morales currently serves as director of the community choir program at the Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura, accompanying pianist in the children’s choir of the Sistema Nacional de Fomento Musical Voces del Mar, conductor and arranger of Vox A Ca****la Band, professor of choral conducting in the Bachelor’s Degree in Choral Conducting of the Instituto Superior de Música Esperanza Azteca, and tenor singer for Exigence vocal ensemble and Los Bordershop Quartet. He is also Mexico’s representative composer in Interkultur’s World Choir Council.

The week is finally upon us! C4 alums, if you’re in the area we would love to have you join us on Friday or Saturday for...
06/14/2026

The week is finally upon us! C4 alums, if you’re in the area we would love to have you join us on Friday or Saturday for our closing number, “The Campers at Kitty Hawk”!

06/14/2026

Hear directly from Bryan Lin, composer of "Quiet Night", as he discusses his meditative contemplation about home and family, with original text by 8th-century poet Li Bai.

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Bryan Lin is a Taiwanese-American conductor and composer based in New York City. His work bridges the path between tradition and innovation while seeking to build community and inspire social action. Bryan finds the intersection of his passions in choral music and musical leadership. Since 2023, he has been an active member of C4: The Choral Composer/Conductor Collective in New York City, where he chairs the Conducting Committee in addition to singing and composing. Previous conducting appointments include Mannes School of Music, Adelphi University, and The Dessoff Choirs. Bryan holds degrees in composition from Lehigh University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and will be starting his doctorate in Choral Conducting at The Hartt School this fall.

06/11/2026

Two days and twenty years ago, the Choral Composer/Conductor Collective made its world debut! Described as “a unique new chorus that is directed and operated collectively by its singing members, it functions not only as a presenting ensemble in its own right but also as an ongoing workshop and recital chorus for the emerging composers and conductors who form the core of the group.” Hear about the experience first-hand from C4 in-house composer George Wright in “My first C4 concert”.

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George is a graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans and the New England Conservatory in Boston. He has been active in New York as a composer and singer since 1996, having contributed as both to such ensembles as the Gregg Smith Singers, the SEM Ensemble, the Choir at Trinity Wall Street and Anti-Social Music. His compositions have been performed at the Aspen Music Festival, The Five Seasons String Festival, and The Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music summer concert series.

06/07/2026

Ever found yourself wondering why women and pockets just don’t mesh? Join C4 on June 19th and 20th to explore the question on everyone’s mind with in-house composer Mario Gullo’s “Why We Oppose Pockets for Women”, conducted by Hannah Cai Sobel (we love getting the perfect take without knowing we got the perfect take 😄)

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“Gullo’s bright, smart music balances modern savvy and timeless optimism” sums up C4’s experience working on this piece. Mario Gullo is a composer and performer currently singing baritone with C4, and his music has been performed by the New York City Master Chorale, Bethel University Chorus, the Larchmont Avenue Church Chancel Choir, Bridges Vocal Ensemble, Opera Elect, the Cantine Quartet, Church of the Epiphany Evensong Singers, the OLL Players, Infinitus, as well as C4!

06/04/2026

Here at C4, we are very fortunate to be able to work directly with our composers, even those who are not in-house members! Max Vinetz is one of three winners of our IGNITE Competition, and was able to visit the group in rehearsals last week to go over his piece “dog swims underwater”. The 6-part poem by Welsh-Scottish writer Euan Tait illustrates the relationship dynamic between a dog, yearning to be free, and its abusive owner, who we know as “rageman.” Rageman kicks and injures the dog, breaking bones and causing the animal to bleed. But rather than hate rageman, the dog simply wants to live and be free, a tale of true resilience. Stick around till the end of the video to hear a sneak peak!

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With music described as “accomplished and appealing” (San Diego Story) and “shimmering…euphoric” (Chicago Classical Review), Max Vinetz is an award-winning composer whose music thrives at the intersection of improvisatory, popular, and traditional classical forms, exploring how these convergences shape and reflect identity transformation over time. Max’s works have been performed and recorded by JACK Quartet, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Alarm Will Sound, TAK ensemble, Bergamot Quartet, arx Duo, Stare at the Sun, Bearthoven, Théo Ould, Vicky Chow, Contemporaneous, DITHER, Hub New Music, Variant 6, Sō Percussion, Bakken Ensemble, institut .abeceda, Hashtag Ensemble, The Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra, Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Dal Niente, Miranda Cuckson, NUNC, Ensemble for New Music Tallinn, Hear&Now, Music from Copland House, Texas Medical Center Orchestra, DeCoda, Mivos Quartet, unassisted fold, Yale Symphony Orchestra, New York Youth Symphony, Icarus Duo, members of Yale Voxtet, and Yale Schola Cantorum, among others.

05/29/2026

Have you ever sang with C4 and are itching to take flight again? Well now is your chance to join us for this energetic, rhythmic, and minimalist setting of John Dos Passos’ telling of the Wright Brothers’ first flight. We invite any alums to join us at our upcoming concerts on June 19th and 20th at 7:30pm to perform this C4 classic, conducted by Bryan Lin. For more details, please be in touch with Perry Townsend, the C4 member that sent the email about this opportunity!

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COMPOSER SPOTLIGHT

Born in Schenectady, New York, Michael Dellaira has degrees in philosophy and music from Georgetown (B.A.), The George Washington (M.Mus) and Princeton Universities (M.F.A., Ph.D). His primary teachers were Milton Babbitt, Paul Lansky, Goffredo Petrassi and Franco Donatoni. He had two residencies at The Composers Conference, where he studied with Roger Sessions and Mario Davidovsky. Dellaira has taught music at The George Washington University, Princeton University, and Union College.

05/25/2026

Gear up to listen to music for people who like the future with some insight on the piece, described as a “post-minimalist challenge to Richard Wagner’s authority.”

***COMPOSER SPOTLIGHT***

Andrew Hamilton was born in Dublin in 1977 and studied in Ireland, UK and The Netherlands with Kevin Volans, Anthony Gilbert and at the Koninklijk Conservatorium with Louis Andriessen. Recently he has had works performed by Irish National Opera, Ensemble Klang, Alarm Will Sound, Musarc, Manchester Collective, Crash Ensemble, An assembly, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Choir Ireland, and members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. During the summer of 2019 his work was performed at the Tectonics and Tanglewood festivals. In 2018 his first portrait album was released on the NMC label and in June 2020 a new solo disc was released on the Ergodos label. He was composer in residence with Crash Ensemble (2019-2023). In March 2024 he was elected to Aosdána and in November 2024 he was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists.

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