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{{short description|American male classical vocal ensemble}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2017}}
{{Infobox choir
| name                = Chanticleer
| image               = Chanticleer2014-Formal-1.jpg
| image_size          = 300px
| caption             = ''Chanticleer: An Orchestra of Voices''
| origin              = [[San Francisco]], [[California]]
| founding            = {{Start date|1978|6|27}}
| genre               = Vocal
| members             = {{Plainlist|
* Luke Elmer
* Logan Shields
* Tavian Cox
* Cortez Mitchell
* Adam Ward
* Bradley Sharpe
* Vineel Garisa Mahal
* Andrew Van Allsburg
* Matthew Mazzola
* Matthew Knickman
* Jared Graveley
* Andy Berry
}}
| executive director  = Philip Wilder
| music director      = Tim Keeler<ref name="Chanticleer" />
| headquarters        = San Francisco
| website             = {{URL|www.chanticleer.org}}
| awards              = {{Plainlist|
* [[Grammy Awards]]
* [[Musical America]]'s Ensemble of the Year
*  [[American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum|American Classical Music Hall of Fame]]
}}
}}
'''Chanticleer''' ({{IPAc-en|'|ʃ|æ|n|t|ɪ|k|l|i|ɹ}}) is an American male classical vocal [[musical ensemble|ensemble]] based in [[San Francisco]], California, founded in 1978. It is known for its interpretations of [[Renaissance music]], for which they were founded, but also a wide repertoire of [[jazz]], [[Gospel music|gospel]] and [[contemporary classical music]]. <!--It has been described as an "Orchestra of Voices".--> Its name is derived from the "[[chanticleer and the Fox|clear singing rooster]]" in Chaucer's ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]''.<ref name="Root" /> The ensemble has made award-winning recordings.

==History==
Chanticleer was founded in 1978 by tenor [[Louis Botto]],<ref name="Root" /> who sang with the group until 1989, and served as Artistic Director until his death from [[AIDS]] in 1997.<ref name="NYT" /> As a graduate student of [[musicology]], Botto found that much of the [[medieval music|medieval]] and [[Renaissance music]] he was studying was not being performed, and, because of this, he formed the group to perform this music with an all-male ensemble, as it was traditionally sung during the Renaissance.<ref name="Root" />

Originally, the group contained ten singers, but its size has varied from eight to twelve. Currently, Chanticleer comprises twelve men, including two [[bass (vocal range)|basses]], one [[baritone]], three [[tenor]]s, and six [[countertenor]]s (three [[alto]]s and three [[sopranist|sopranos]]).<ref name="Root" />

The original members included Jim Armington (tenor), Ted Bakkila (baritone), Rob Bell (countertenor), Louis Botto (who sang alto as well as tenor), Sanford Dole (tenor), Kevin Freeman (bass), Tom Hart (baritone), Jonathan Klein (baritone), Neal Rogers (tenor), Tim Gibler (bass), Randall Wong (countertenor), and Doug Wyatt (bass).  However, only ten of the singers were available to go on tour.

When the ensemble first became full-time in 1991, its members included Eric Alatorre (bass and longest-standing member as of his retirement after the 2018–2019 season), [[Frank Albinder]] (baritone), Kevin Baum (tenor), Mark Daniel (tenor), Kenneth Fitch (countertenor), Jonathan Goodman (tenor), Tim Gibler (bass and last member of the original ensemble), Joseph Jennings (countertenor and Music Director), Chad Runyon (baritone), Foster Sommerlad (countertenor), Matthew Thompson (tenor), and [[Philip Wilder]] (countertenor).

==Discography==
{{div col}}
* 1988 – ''The Anniversary Album'', 1978–1988<ref>[https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-anniversary-album-1978-1988-mw0001917052 The Anniversary Album'', 1978–1988] [[AllMusic]]</ref>
* 1990 – ''Our Heart's Joy: A Chanticleer Christmas'' (remastered in 2004)<ref>[https://www.allmusic.com/album/our-hearts-joy-a-chanticleer-christmas-mw0000970110 Our Heart's Joy] [[AllMusic]]</ref>
* 1991 – ''Psallite! A Renaissance Christmas''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 1992 – Josquin: Missa Mater Patris; Agricola: Magnificat and motets<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 1993 – ''Byrd: Missa In Tempore Paschali''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 1993 – Cristóbal de Morales: Missa Mille Regretz and motets<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 1993 – ''Mysteria: Gregorian Chants''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 1994 – ''Where the Sun Will Never Go Down''<ref name="AllMusic" /><ref name="DNB" />
* 1994 – ''Out of This World''<ref name="AllMusic" /><ref name="DNB" />
* 1994 – Palestrina: Missa pro defunctis; motets<ref name="AllMusic" /><ref name="DNB" />
* 1994 – ''Mexican Baroque''<ref name="AllMusic" /><ref name="DNB" />
* 1994 – ''Our Heart's Joy / A Chanticleer Christmas''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 1995 – ''Sing We Christmas''<ref name="AllMusic" /><ref name="DNB" />
* 1996 – ''Old-fashioned Christmas''<ref name="DNB" />
* 1996 – ''Lost in the Stars''<ref name="AllMusic" /><ref name="DNB" />
* 1998 – ''Wondrous Love: A World Folk Song Collection''<ref name="AllMusic" /><ref name="DNB" />
* 1998 – ''Byrd: Music for a Hidden Chapel''<ref name="Wilson" />
* 1997 – ''Reflections''<ref name="AllMusic" /><ref name="DNB" />
* 1998 – Jerusalem: ''Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe'', 1764<ref name="AllMusic" /><ref name="DNB" />
* 1999 – ''The Music of''<ref name="DNB" />
* 1999 – ''[[Colors of Love (Chanticleer album)|Colors of Love]]'', works by [[Augusta Read Thomas]], [[Steven Stucky]], [[John Tavener]] and [[Bernard Rands]].<ref name="AllMusic" /><ref name="DNB" />
* 2000 – ''Magnificat'',<ref name="AllMusic" /><ref name="DNB" /> works by [[Josquin Desprez]], [[Giovanni Palestrina]], [[Tomás Luis de Victoria]], [[John Taverner]], [[William Cornysh]], [[Vasily Polikarpovich Titov]] and [[Claudio Monteverdi]]<ref name="Moody" />
* 2001 – ''Glory to Christmas''<ref name="DNB" />
* 2001 – ''Christmas with Chanticleer''<ref name="AllMusic" /><ref name="DNB" />
* 2002 – John Tavener: ''Lamentations and Praises''<ref name="AllMusic" /><ref name="DNB" />
* 2002 – ''Our American Journey''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 2003 – ''Evening Prayer: Purcell Anthems and Sacred Songs''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 2003 – ''A Portrait''<ref>James Manheim: [https://www.allmusic.com/album/a-portrait-mw0000134539 A Portrait] [[AllMusic]]</ref>
* 2004 – ''How Sweet the Sound: Spirituals and Traditional Gospel Music'',<ref name="AllMusic" /><ref name="DNB" /> arrangements by Joseph Jennings<ref name="Quinn" />
* 2004 – ''Music for a Hidden Chapel''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 2005 – ''Sound in Spirit'',<ref name="AllMusic" /> works by [[Carlos Rafael Rivera]], Joseph Jennings, Victoria, [[Alfonso X of Castile]], [[Jan Gilbert]], [[Patricia Van Ness]], Nectarie Vlahul, Sarah Hopkins, [[Giacinto Scelsi]] and [[Jackson Hill (composer)|Jackson Hill]]<ref name="Witherden" />
* 2007 – ''And on Earth, Peace: A Chanticleer Mass''<ref name="AllMusic" /><ref name="DNB" />
* 2007 – ''Let it Snow''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 2008 – ''Mission Road''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 2009 – ''I Have Had Singing: A Chanticleer Portrait''<ref>[http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp;jsessionid=BD44F08F9B4C65577755FECC4A7CF373?album_id=308647 I Have Had Singing – A Chanticleer Portrait] ArkivMusic</ref>
* 2010 – ''A Chanticleer Christmas''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 2011 – ''Our Favorite Carols''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 2011 – ''Between Two Wars''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 2011 – ''Chanticleer Takes You Out of this World!''
* 2011 – ''For Thy Soul's Salvation''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 2011 – Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur: ''Annunciation''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 2011 – ''Ludus Paschalis: Resurrection Play of Tours''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 2011 – ''My Chanticleer: A Collection for Chanticleer''
* 2011 – ''The Boy Whose Father was God''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 2011 – ''With a Poet's Eye''
* 2012 – ''Love Story''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 2012 – ''By Request''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 2013 – ''The Siren's Call''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 2013 – ''Someone New''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 2014 – ''She Said/He Said''
* 2015 – ''Over the Moon''
* 2017 – ''Heart of a Soldier''
* 2018 – ''Then and There, Here and Now''<ref name="AllMusic" />
* 2020 – ''Chanticleer Sings Christmas''<ref name="AllMusic" />
{{div col end}}

In May 2007, Chanticleer released "''And On Earth, Peace: A Chanticleer Mass''" (Warner Classics) a new mass written by five contemporary [[composer]]s. Israeli-born composer [[Shulamit Ran]] wrote the [[Credo]] to the [[Hebrew]] text "Ani Ma'amin"; US composer [[Douglas Cuomo]] contributed the [[Kyrie]]; Turkish-American composer [[Kamran Ince]] composed the [[Gloria in Excelsis Deo|Gloria]] section to a [[sufism|sufi]] text; English composer [[Ivan Moody (composer)|Ivan Moody]] composed the [[Sanctus]]; and Irish composer [[Michael McGlynn]] (director of [[Anúna]]) composed the [[Agnus Dei]]. The Mass was [[premiere]]d in performance at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in [[New York City]] and was followed by six performances throughout the [[San Francisco Bay area]].<ref name="Root" /><ref>''[[The New York Times]]'' has more on the repertoire [http://www.chanticleer.org/massnytimes.htm here] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070528074930/http://www.chanticleer.org/massnytimes.htm |date=May 28, 2007 }}.</ref>

On October 16, 2007, Chanticleer released "''Let it Snow,''" the group's 29th recording.  A portion of the album is accompanied by orchestra and/or [[big band]]; as such, the album brings a new sound to Chanticleer's almost exclusively [[a cappella]] repertoire.<ref name="AllMusic" />

== Notable past members ==
* [[Frank Albinder]] (baritone), designed the concept and chose the repertoire for Chanticleer's Grammy Award-winning album ''Colors of Love''
* [[Philip Wilder]]
* [[Matt Alber]]
* [[Terry Barber]]

== Awards and honors ==
Joseph Jennings (as artistic director) and Chanticleer won a [[Grammy Awards|Grammy Award]] for Best Small Ensemble Performance for their 1999 recording ''[[Colors of Love (Chanticleer album)|Colors of Love]]''.<ref name="Grammy" /> Chanticleer was awarded two Grammy Awards, in categories Best Small Ensemble Performance and Best Classical Contemporary Composition, their 2002 recording of Taverner's ''Lamentations and Praises''. Their 2003 recording ''Our American Journey'' was nominated for a Grammy a year later.<ref name="Grammy" />

In November 2007, in its 30th anniversary season, Chanticleer was named ''[[Musical America]]''{{'}}s 2008 Ensemble of the year.<ref name="Root" /> This marks the first time a vocal ensemble has received this award. Additionally, on October 9, 2008, Chanticleer became the first vocal ensemble to be inducted into the [[American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum|American Classical Music Hall of Fame]] in Cincinnati, Ohio.<ref name="Root" />

==References==
{{reflist
| refs =

<ref name="Moody">{{cite journal
| last = Moody
| first = Ivan
| url = https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/magnificat-chanticleer
| title = Magnificat
| date = 2000
| journal = [[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]
| access-date = June 29, 2020
}}</ref>

<ref name="Quinn">{{cite web
| last = Quinn
| first = John
| url = https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2004/Oct04/chanticleer_how_sweet.htm
| title = How sweet the sound / Spirituals and Traditional Gospel Music / All arrangements by Joseph Jennings
| website = musicweb-international.com
| date = October 2004
| access-date = June 29, 2020
}}</ref>

<ref name="Root">{{cite web
| last = Root
| first = Corie Stanton
| url = https://www.allmusic.com/artist/chanticleer-mn0000817257/biography
| title = Discography
| website = [[AllMusic]]
| access-date = June 29, 2020
}}</ref>

<ref name="Wilson">{{cite web
| last = Wilson
| first = Brian
| url = https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2008/Sept08/Byrd_Hidden_HCX3955182.htm
| title = William Byrd (1543–1623) / Music for a Hidden Chapel (from Gradualia, 1607) 
| website = musicweb-international.com
| date = September 2008
| access-date = June 29, 2020
}}</ref>

<ref name="Witherden">{{cite journal
| last = Witherden
| first = B.
| url = https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/chanticleer-sound-in-spirit
| title = Magnificat
| date = November 2005
| journal = [[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]
| access-date = June 29, 2020
}}</ref>

<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web
| url = https://www.allmusic.com/artist/chanticleer-mn0000817257/discography
| title = Discography
| website = [[AllMusic]]
| access-date = June 29, 2020
}}</ref>

<ref name="DNB">{{cite web
| url = https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&reset=true&cqlMode=true&query=intRef%3D962941905&selectedCategory=any
| title = publications with Chanticleer
| website = [[German National Library]]
| language = de
| access-date = June 29, 2020
}}</ref>

<ref name="Grammy">{{cite web
| url = https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/chanticleer
| title = Chanticleer
| website = [[Grammy Awards]]
| access-date = June 29, 2020
}}</ref>

<ref name="NYT">{{cite news
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/01/arts/louis-botto-45-choir-founder.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
| title = Louis Botto, 45, Choir Founder
| newspaper = [[The New York Times]]
| date = March 1, 1997
| access-date = May 19, 2009
}}</ref>

<ref name="Chanticleer">{{cite web
| url = https://www.chanticleer.org/press-releases/2020/4/10/chanticleer-names-sixth-music-director-tim-keeler-assumes-post-in-august
| title = Chanticleer Names Sixth Music Director: Tim Keeler Assumes Post in August
| website = www.chanticleer.org
| date = April 10, 2020
| access-date = August 1, 2020
}}</ref>

}}

==External links==
* [http://www.chanticleer.org/ Official site]
* {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=q17021|label=Chanticleer}}
* {{YouTube|L7C-VXZVSTw|Chanticleer performs Biebl's 'Ave Maria' at the Cathedral of St. Paul (December 22, 2018)}}

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