Anam Cara Inc

Anam Cara Chamber Choir has a 15 year history of creating excellent performances of choral chamber music in South Eastern Idaho. We give two concerts per year: one in the Spring, around the Mother’s Day weekend, and the other in the Fall during the Thanksgiving/Christmas celebrations. We are extending our influence for excellent choral chamber music performances in several ways:

1)     By preparing and performing uplifting, fun, and enchanting, free choral chamber music concerts of outstanding excellence for the concert-going public of South Eastern Idaho*;

2)     By encouraging choral musicians of the future with scholarships to aspiring choral singers/directors on the high school and undergraduate college level. We want to build a self-perpetuating fund that can benefit future choral musicians;

3)     By touring through Idaho and the Pacific Northwest** to expand public awareness of the beauty and inspiration of choral chamber music that lifts the spirit and feeds the soul.

Our highly accomplished singers, many of whom are or have been working music professionals, have come to us out of the desire to share, as friends, the harmonies, inspirations, and joys of choral chamber music. To achieve this, we strive to:

• Attract the best musicians
• Encourage excellence in an atmosphere of collaboration and camaraderie
• Explore different forms of choral chamber music and establish audiences for them
• Provide audiences with music that broadens their understanding and appreciation of the choral art form
• Take performances exemplifying excellence in choral music into rural areas that do not normally have access to this type of choir and where limited educational arts programs exist and need support
• Develop an educational outreach program in the choral art
• Conduct workshops for schools
• Challenge the performers to continue to grow musically, as much as possible
• Become a regional performing organization
• Be an active part of the greater Northwestern choral scene

We are happily conducted by one of South East Idaho's most illustrious conductors, Dr. Kevin Brower, the current BYU-Idaho College Dean of Performing and Visual Arts. Dr. Brower received his Doctorate of Musical Arts from Arizona State University. He has taught and administered in the BYU-Idaho Music Department and College of Performing and Visual Arts since 1992. Dr. Brower’s choral groups have received national recognition and performed at many regional and national ACDA and MENC events. His groups are frequently involved in national and international performances including recent trips to Canada, Brazil and Chile. He has been a featured conductor with the acclaimed Mormon Tabernacle Choir on five different occasions. He is also a past president of the Idaho State Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association.

Our accompanist, Jeanne Green-Sherman, is a highly accomplished concert pianist and a duo-piano partner with Mark Neiwirth (ISU) and a Van Cliburn 4th International Piano Competition participant where she won excellent reviews. She has won the Utah State Fair Piano Competition as well as several Nat'l Federation of Music Clubs competitions. She is also a sought-after accompanist for vocal and instrumental soloists and other choral groups in the area.

We feel fortunate to have these fine singer, director, and accompanist musicians under contract to help us become the premier chamber choir of Idaho. We invite you to join with us to lift up the spirits of our community, state, and region through uplifting choral chamber music by supporting our Anam Cara Chamber Choir!

* We perform for all of South East Idaho including:  Bingham, Bonneville, Fremont, Jefferson, Madison Counties

** Anam Cara has longer-term plans to tour the Pacific Northwest States including: Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Montana