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Anthony LaGruth  ~ Music Director/Conductor
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Alden Hammond  ~ Chorale Founder
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The Shrewsbury Chorale, a mixed chorus of approximately seventy members, performs a varied repertoire in an annual series of subscription concerts in addition to performances for various community organizations.  Having completed our 50th season in June 2007, the Chorale has flourished under the distinguished leadership of many excellent conductors including founder Alden Hammond, and his successor, laureate conductor Paul O. Grammer, as well as Frank Archer, Larry Newland, Brian Aschinger, and Stephen M. Smith. Our Music Director and Conductor, Anthony LaGruth joined us in the 2002-2003 Season.

The present membership includes several charter members as well as musicians, teachers, and business people from throughout central New Jersey. The Chorale has established itself as one of Monmouth County's premiere musical organizations, performing a broad repertoire of sacred and secular choral music throughout the state.

 In 1978 the Chorale was selected to represent the State of New Jersey in concert at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. and during the 1988-89 season held the position of Artist-in-Residence at Monmouth University.  In 1999 the Chorale performed the U.S. premiere of newly reconstructed masterworks written by Giovanni Gabrieli and others for St. Mark's, Venice in concerts in Boston and New Jersey.

On January 27, 2001, the Chorale was honored to make our Carnegie Hall debut, when we joined with the New York Grand Opera Soloists, Chorus, and Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Vincent La Selva, in a presentation of the Verdi Requiem in a performance commemorating the 100th anniversary of the composer's death.  We were honored to be invited to once again join with The New York Grand Opera Soloists, Chorus, and Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Vincent La Selva, in a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, March 26, 2002 and on November 7, 2002 performing in the Triumphal Scene from Aida. On June 16, 2003 the chorale was pleased to perform at Carnegie Hall in a Mid-America Production of Mozart Requiem, conductor Charles Hausmann. On November 30, 2003 the chorale joined the New England Symphonic Ensemble in Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Zadok the Priest from Handel's Coronation Anthems. Maestro Vincent La Selva invited the chorale to join the New York Grand Opera Soloists, Chorus, and Orchestra, in an encore performance of the Verdi Requiem on March 29, 2004.