SD Pro Arte Voices
In The News
SAN DIEGO PRO ARTE VOICES IN CONCERT: SERIOUS YET SUBLIME
“The good news is that the choral ensemble San Diego Pro Arte Voices under the musical direction of Patrick Walders is back.”
San Diego Story
July 27, 2019
MUSICALLY RICH EVENING OF READINGS & CAROLS
“San Diego has been enjoying a welcome choral renaissance over the last several years. Under Walders’ astute leadership, Pro Arte Voices brings to the table a powerful professional ensemble with a mature tonal palette and superior technical skills. This “Evening of Readings and Carols” again demonstrated how valuable this organization is to the region’s cultural life.”
San Diego Story
December 24, 2018
PRO ARTE VOICES BRINGS MUSIC TO THE TABLE OF GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA
“The Pro Arte Voices polished, driving account of Gregory W. Brown’s double choir “Love (&) Doubt” offered a winning mix of spirited counterpoint and lively, angular themes that constructed the clever architectural puzzle of Kevin Devaney’s two-part poem.”
San Diego Story
May 30, 2017
SINGERS OF PRO ARTE VOICES EXALT CATHEDRAL EVENSONG
The choir’s performance was nothing short of rapturous.
In San Diego Story
August 9, 2016
PRO ARTE VOICES SHINES WITH SCHÜTZ AND COPLAND: THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA
From his 28 singers, Walders drew a vibrant, solidly tuned sonority that gave Copland’s muscular writing all the power and drive it needed, especially in the dramatic contrapuntal sections. The choir filled the work’s climax, emphatic chordal iterations of the story’s apex “and man became a living soul”, with astoundingly rich color and exultation.
In San Diego Story
March 19, 2016
In San Diego Union Tribune
December 15, 2015
PRO ARTE VOICES IN PACIFIC BEACH: BOLD AND SAUCY
The 34 singers of Pro Arte Voices sport a colorful, pulsing sonority that manages to be simultaneously highly polished and dangerously athletic.
In San Diego Story
December 23, 2014
IMPRESSIVE NEW CHORAL ENSEMBLE: SAN DIEGO PRO ARTE VOICES
If this chorus can continue the depth of emotion and sonic richness they revealed in this piece, they could become San Diego’s premier choral entity.
In San Diego Story
April 14, 2014
