Global Engagement Founding Principles

• Grow Kantorei’s domestic visibility by having a positive impact on choirs outside of the U.S.

• Provide musical education, board development tools, strategies and resources that drive lasting sustainability in developing choral communities.

• Through its efforts, develop a network of global choirs that expand Kantorei’s artistic recognition and awareness around the world.

How does Global Engagement fit?

Kantorei’s Mission

We are innovators: we responsibly leverage our resources to commission work by living composers, perform music by underrepresented and emerging artists, encourage future talent through educational engagement, and nurture the choral community.

Kantorei’s Values

• Community – We provide an opportunity for singers, artists, students, and audiences from many different backgrounds and identities to share in musical experiences that allow us to transcend the world we live in. Our singers show up for each other, both musically and personally. We are in community with the composers who partner with us. We create nurturing relationships with other choirs so we can collectively thrive. We show young and emerging artists what their musical future can look like.

• Inclusion: We amplify voices that should be heard, and seek to bring our voices to new places. We connect diverse audiences through the power of music

• Innovation: As an organization, we are never stagnant. We feel a responsibility to use our funding to to to to educate, delight, and amaze, which is evident through every aspect of our work: programming,
  recordings, concerts, and community impact