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Definition: a deep blue color; azure from the Latin root caelum, meaning “heaven” or “sky”
As the resident ensemble of Pepperdine University's The Ascending Voice, Cerulean is an elite chamber choir of mixed voices whose mission is to discover, rediscover, promote, and celebrate the highest forms of Christian sacred a cappella music. The group’s name evokes the notion of voices of praise and supplication offered up to the heavens for God's glory. The sixteen-member ensemble includes several of our talented Pepperdine alumni and is under the leadership of Professors Ryan Board and N. Lincoln Hanks of Pepperdine University.
Working within the parameters of the triennial symposium The Ascending Voice, Cerulean performs high-quality public concerts and serves as a resource to workshop and lecture presentations, singing examples of various a cappella worship styles. Additionally, members of Cerulean serve as section leaders in The Ascending Voice Festival Choir, leading rehearsals and mentoring younger singers during the process of learning and performing. Cerulean also advances the cause of new Christian art music by calling for and performing new sacred a cappella concert works.
In sync with The Ascending Voice, the group only forms every three years, and in order to assemble the group for The Ascending Voice IV (May 12-14, 2016), we need to raise $16,500 to help fund travel, room and board, and a stipend for these talented singers who share our love of sacred a cappella music.
