Bringing professional choral music spanning a great breadth of musical traditions to the Galesburg and Quad Cities communities is central to Nova Singers’ mission. In order to be widely accessible, we intentionally keep our tickets moderately priced, offer discounts to senior citizens, and provide free admission to children and students whenever possible. Each of our performances is rebroadcast by regional radio stations WVIK and WCBU, enabling even more individuals access to our music.
Our venues are handicapped accessible and all lyrics and translations are typed in a program insert for those who may be hard of hearing. Through outreach programs such as Project Sing! and our partnership with children’s choirs, we seek to share our love of fine music with the youth of our community.
Serving Illinois and Iowa Artists
Nova Singers’ founder and music director, Dr. Laura L. Lane, is a distinguished Illinois artist, serving as past-president of the Illinois Choral Directors Association and recently directing the Illinois All-State Chorus. All twenty members of the ensemble are artists from Illinois and eastern Iowa and all are compensated on a per-service basis. The directors of local children’s choirs and area high school choirs regularly have the opportunity to showcase their ensembles in our holiday and winter concerts. When we expand Nova Singers, as we did for the Bach B Minor Mass in 2011 and the Brahms Requiem in the fall of 2012, we use 12 to 15 additional singers in the area. We also hire professional instrumentalists to accompany us for the major works such as Handel’s Israel in Egypt and Henderson’s From Darkness to Light.
