Amare Cantare

Amare Cantare is an auditioned chamber chorus that strives for musical excellence in the performance of challenging and diverse repertoire. We seek to foster a vital arts community, to collaborate with other organizations, to provide opportunities for artistic fulfillment for our singers, and to share our love of music with our audiences.

Since 1977, Amare Cantare (“to love to sing”) has performed masterworks and choral music from five centuries.

Based in Durham, New Hampshire, the group’s members come from all over the Seacoast.

Amare Cantare’s 2^nd Renaissance Performing Arts Festival
Sunday, June 1, 2008, noon to 5:00 p.m.
Mill Pond Center, Durham, NH

Singers, actors, instrumentalists, jugglers, food, craftmakers, animals, and more!

For full 2007–2008 concert season details, click here.





Photos courtesy of Justin Paré
Supported in part by grants from the and the Waldo and Alice Ayer Foundation, Citizens Bank Trustee

Catherine Beller-McKenna, Music Director, brings to Amare Cantare extensive experience in conducting choruses in both community and collegiate settings. She received her Bachelor's degree from Oberlin College, her Master's of Music in Choral Conducting from New England Conservatory and her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Conducting from the University of South Carolina, where she explored a special interest in text/music relationships in the cantatas of J.S. Bach. She has also conducted in master classes at the Oregon Bach Festival and the South Carolina Conductor's Institute.

Since returning to New England in 1998, Catherine has taught and conducted at Bowdoin College, the University of New Hampshire, and the University of Southern Maine. In addition to Amare Cantare, she directs Women in Harmony, a 50-voice women's chorus in Portland, ME, and she previously directed the Granite State Choral Society, a 65-voice mixed chorus in Rochester, NH.

Catherine (who goes by "Kitty") believes strongly in the power of music to build community. She lives with her family in Durham, NH.

To bring choral music of a high artistic level to the Seacoast, Amare Cantare depends on your support.

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Amare Cantare
P.O. Box 742
Durham, NH 03824
info@amarecantare.com