The mission of Ars Nova Singers is to delight, inspire, and enlighten audiences with choral music of the highest artistic quality.
We are a 40-voice Boulder-based professional choir, specializing in music of the Renaissance and 20th/21st centuries, collaborations, and commissions. We have been a fixture of the Boulder arts and music community for 40 years.
EVENTS (2025-26 SEASON)
RubyDREAMS: Ars Nova Singers’ 40th Season Opening Gala Celebration and Benefit Concert
A look back, a look forward: our season opens with a celebration of dreams both past and future. This program includes a retrospective of favorite works from the past 40 years, as well as a glimpse into the season ahead. Join us for a vibrant array of fiery sounds and flowing voices, energized by the virtuosity of Nathan Mertens, saxophone, and electrified by our friends and special guests, FACE Vocal Band. Come celebrate our history and step into the musical future with us.
A generous buffet of delectable hors d’oeuvres and desserts, and a beverage to share a toast, will be available in the lobby before the concert and during the intermissions, along with several opportunities to help us celebrate our Ruby Anniversary in style!
Artwork: “Cascade” by Scott Fraser
Tickets: $110
“The often haunting and tranquil melodic material was delivered with great passion and tenderness, evoking a sense of awe and serenity, and revealing the naked beauty of a cappella voices.” -Denver Post
- Sunday, September 7, 2025 | 3:00 pm
Dairy Arts Center
2590 Walnut St. Boulder, CO 80302
RubySHINE: Ars Nova Singers presents VOCES8 (Boulder)
Ars Nova Singers presents the internationally acclaimed ensemble VOCES8, performing two unique programs in Boulder and Denver.
Britain’s Grammy-nominated VOCES8 is proud to inspire people through music and share the joy of singing. As the world’s top-streaming classical vocal group, they perform an extensive repertory in their own a cappella concerts and their collaborations with leading musicians, orchestras, conductors, and soloists. Versatility and celebrations of diverse musical expression are central to the ensemble’s artistic and educational ethos, both online and in person.
We’re thrilled to welcome VOCES8 back to Boulder and Denver. Here’s a brief description of each program – come to both if you can!
Friday, October 17 (Boulder) – Lead Me Home
Lead Me Home is a celebration of the American choral landscape, showcasing VOCES8’s versatility. It presents a wide array of American choral styles, from traditional hymns and folk songs to contemporary compositions. Works by Virgil Thomson, Samuel Barber, William Billings, and Morten Lauridsen share the program with works by Caroline Shaw, Bobby McFerrin, Stephen Paulus, Eric Whitacre, and more.
Friday, October 17, 2025 | 7:30 pm
First United Methodist Church
1421 Spruce St Boulder, CO 80302
RubySHINE: Ars Nova Singers presents VOCES8 (Denver)
Ars Nova Singers presents the internationally acclaimed ensemble VOCES8, performing two unique programs in Boulder and Denver.
Britain’s Grammy-nominated VOCES8 is proud to inspire people through music and share the joy of singing. As the world’s top-streaming classical vocal group, they perform an extensive repertory in their own a cappella concerts and their collaborations with leading musicians, orchestras, conductors, and soloists. Versatility and celebrations of diverse musical expression are central to the ensemble’s artistic and educational ethos, both online and in person.
We’re thrilled to welcome VOCES8 back to Boulder and Denver. Here’s a brief description of each program – come to both if you can!
Saturday, October 18 (Denver) – Give Me Your Stars
Give Me Your Stars explores the profound and diverse beauty of music inspired by the heavens, human connection, and the places we call home. At its heart is Lucy Walker’s eponymous new work, written for VOCES8, which captures the delicate balance between celestial wonder and the deep, personal connections that make us human.
The program spans centuries of choral music, from the luminous polyphony of Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Regina Caeli to timeless jazz standards. Along the way, we encounter the reflective sentiments of Eric Whitacre’s All Seems Beautiful to Me and Ola Gjeilo’s Ubi Caritas, folk traditions in Danny Boy and Michael McGlynn’s Dúlamán, and evocative tales of cities and starlight in April in Paris and New York, New York.
Saturday, October 18, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Central Presbyterian Church
1660 Sherman St Denver, CO 80203
VINTAGERuby – Elizabeth I: Words and Music
VINTAGERuby – Elizabeth I: Words and Music Step inside the world of Elizabethan England, where music was power, art was politics, and a woman ruled with brilliance and steel. In VINTAGERuby – Elizabeth I: Words and Music, Ars Nova Singers shares the stage with acclaimed actor Tamara Meneghini to bring Queen Elizabeth I vividly to life.
Drawing from Meneghini’s celebrated solo work Elizabeth I: In Her Own Words, the program weaves the queen’s private reflections with the music she heard, supported, and cherished. Renaissance masterworks by Thomas Tallis and William Byrd - composers who navigated faith, politics, and power under Elizabeth’s reign - create a rich musical dialogue with her story.
Part theater, part concert, VINTAGERuby offers an immersive portrait of a ruler both feared and beloved, revealing the human heart behind the crown.
Friday, February 21, 2026 | 7:30 pm
St. Paul Lutheran (St. Paul Center)
1600 Grant St. Denver, CO 80203
RubyGLOW: Colorado New Music Festival
This is a rare opportunity to hear three of Colorado’s finest choirs sharing the stage and some of their favorite new music! Ars Nova hosts the first Colorado New Music Festival, with the combined artistry of Ars Nova Singers, Kantorei, and St. Martin’s Chamber Choir. Each acclaimed ensemble will present a solo set before joining forces in the World Premiere of Terry Schlenker’s new work The Bird of Vision (based on a poem by 13th-century Sufi mystic, Rumi), commissioned for this one-night-only concert.
A choir stands on a wooden stage in a modern concert hall, performing under the direction of a conductor, with an audience seated in the foreground.
Founded in 1997, Kantorei is a Denver-based choral ensemble dedicated to artistic excellence, innovation, and inclusivity. Through compelling performances, educational outreach, and the commissioning of new music, Kantorei brings the transformative power of choral art to audiences across Colorado and beyond. Learn more at kantorei.org.
A group of adults dressed in formal attire stands outdoors in front of trees and distant mountains, smiling at the camera under a clear sky.
Founded in 1994 as Colorado’s only year-round, fully professional choir, St. Martin’s Chamber Choir has delighted Colorado audiences for more than 30 years with its exhilarating sound, its exquisite blend, and its fascinating repertoire, drawn from 1,000 years of choral music. St. Martin’s performs in five counties across the Denver metro area including Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson. Learn more at stmartinschamberchoir.org.
Saturday, May 30, 2026 | 7:30 pm
Central Presbyterian Church
1660 N Sherman Denver, CO 80203
RubyFIRE: Shared Visions
Featuring Shared Visions, Ars Nova Singers’ signature collaborative project, connecting Colorado visual, literary, and musical artists in chains of inspiration.
We’re igniting the Colorado arts scene! For our 4th Shared Visions venture, we start by assembling a gallery of 21 visual art works by seven Colorado artists. Next, we invite Colorado poets to engage with this art and respond to its inspiration with original poems that we compile into an anthology. Four Colorado composers are then commissioned to incorporate this anthology into new music for chorus. Finally, our performances will gather all these Colorado creatives together – and then the artworks will truly sing! The cycle is complete when YOU, the audience, join us to bring this new art to life.
- Friday, April 24, 2026 | 7:30 pm
Lakewood Cultural Center
470 S Alison Pkwy Lakewood, CO 80226 - Saturday, April 25, 2026 | 7:30 pm
The Dairy Arts Center
2590 Walnut St. Boulder, CO 80302 - Sunday, April 26, 2026 | 4:00 pm
The Dairy Arts Center
2590 Walnut St. Boulder, CO 80302