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    Tucson Chamber Artists

    Southern Arizona's professional chamber choir and orchestra, Tucson Chamber Artists is a versatile ensemble of vocal and instrumental musicians dedicated to enriching lives through the transformational power of classical music. TCA's singers represent the first rank of choral artists in Arizona and from around the country, and its instrumentalists have trained in some of the finest music schools in the world.

    TCA accomplishes its mission primarily through the performance of masterworks and the diverse music of America. Recent performances include Mozart's Mass in C-minor and Requiem, Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony, Haydn's The Creation, and commissions by leading American composers Paul Crabtree and Stephen Paulus. TCA is also committed to regularly premiering new works by emerging composers. In 2009, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded funding for TCA's American Masterpieces program, featuring works by some of the great American composers of the 20th century.

    Now in its seventh season, TCA has quickly emerged as a rising star in the American cultural scene. In 2010, TCA's choir was one of three professional choirs, including Chanticleer and the Incheon City Chorale from South Korea, invited to perform at the Western Conference of the American Choral Director's Association. Also in 2010, the journal of Chorus America, The Voice, published a feature article on TCA for its successes in light of the current economic downturn.

    Right here in Tucson, the Arizona Daily Star proclaimed as early as 2006 that TCA is "now in the big leagues...and has grown from fledgling newcomer to assuming a seat at the table with Tucson's larger professional arts groups, including Arizona Opera, Tucson Symphony Orchestra and Arizona Theatre Company." More recently, TCA was lauded as "arguably the greater Tucson area's finest musicians," in an October 2010 review in which the Star characterized TCA's biggest opening concerts to date as "a bold pronouncement."