Gregg Smith Singers

The Gregg Smith Singers (GSS) are one of the world's primary small choral ensembles, with a particular reputation for twentieth century music. Founded by composer Gregg Smith in 1955, they have toured all around the world, including Brussels, Venice, and throughout the United States. They were one of Igor Stravinsky's favored vocal ensembles for his recordings on Columbia Records, and Smith himself conducted the chorus and orchestra at Stravinsky's funeral.

Seventy percent of the repertory of the Singers is American music, extending from Stephen Foster, Victor Herbert, Ives, Copland, and William Schuman, to late twentieth century composers such as Roger Reynolds, Jacob Druckman, Elliott Carter, Ned Rorem, and Louise Talma. In 1978 GSS received the Ditson Conductor's prize for service to American music, and in 1988 they were awarded the Berliasky Prize of the American Academy in Rome. GSS has won three Grammy awards, one each for The Glory of Gabrieli, New Music of Charles Ives, and another Ives disk, General Booth Enters into Heaven.

Smith's compositions have primarily focused on the creation of vocal music. He has composed two operas, about 30 choral works, more than 50 songs, and hundreds of choral arrangements. Since 1973 Smith and the Singers have been based in Yonkers, and makes annual appearances at the Adirondack Musical Festival at Lake Saranac, New York, and conducts the North Country Choral Workshop at Saranac Lake, open to high school students. More than a thousand students have completed this course. In the 1980s they became associated with New York City's "Art Connection" concerts.

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To the best of my knowledge they do not have a website. If you would like to contact them directly, give them a call (from the online phonebook)

Gregg Smith Singers (914) 376-8899