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 will for the Fauré Requiem in the Spring of 2008 and did for Bach's St. John Passion in Spring 2006, we use from 12 to 15 additional singers in the area. We also hire professional instrumentalists to accompany us for the major works such as the Bach B Minor Mass, Handel’s Israel in Egypt and Henderson’s From Darkness to Light.