Founded in the fall of 1989, Another Octave: Connecticut Women's Chorus celebrates its choices and
experiences through the power of music. With roots in the lesbian community, and open to all women,
the chorus performs an eclectic repertoire, including standard concert pieces as well as traditional
and contemporary music which reflects women's lives.
Members come from varied backgrounds and
lifestyles, and bring with them differing degrees of musical training. Together, we work for
musical excellence , and perform for the pleasure of our audiences and ourselves.
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Another Octave: Connecticut Women's Chorus is a member of the Association Of Connecticut
Choruses, GALA (the Gay and Lesbian Association of) Choruses, the Sister Singers Network.
Association of Connecticut Choruses, established in 1981, is a non-profit organization of
community, festival, college/university, and church choirs, as well as individual
singers, dedicated to promoting and encouraging choral music through workshops,
summer sings, a lending library system of choral music and recordings, and joint concerts.
GALA Choruses is an alliance of nearly 200-plus member choruses and 10,000 singers.
GALA Choruses serves choruses that range in size from five to 252 singers.
Member choruses are located throughout North America, Europe and Australia.
GALA Choruses produces a choral festival every every four years, which AO:CWC has attended since 1992. The next GALA festival is scheduled for July 2012 in Denver.
In addition to holding conferences for directors and managers, GALA addresses issues
of mutual concern, and enables members to exchange music and musical ideas.
GALA Choruses is a non-profit, tax-exempt corporation with offices located in Washington, D.C.
The Sister Singers Network, founded in the early 1980s, is an association of over
70 women's choruses and several dozen composers and arrangers from the U.S. as
well as Canada and England. The Network provides a directory of its members and gives
them the opportunity to share music and singing. The Network also holds semi-annual
choral festivals. Member representatives of AO:CWC have attended SSN festivals
and brought back wonderful music.
Another Octave is also a member of the New Haven Arts Council. The Arts Council of
Greater New Haven works to enhance Greater New Haven as the creative capital of
Connecticut by providing needed services in support of artistic and cultural development
to its members and to the community; communicating opportunities to create
and experience various art forms; advocating in support of the arts community
and arts education; and facilitating and coordinating arts and cultural activities
throughout the region.
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