Chanticleer (ensemble) San Francisco, California, Chanticleer is a full-time classical vocal ensemble in the United States. For three decades, Chanticleer has developed a grand reputation for its interpretation of Renaissance music, but performs a wide repertoire of jazz, gospel, and other venturesome new music and is widely known as an "Orchestra of Voices". It was named for the "clear singing rooster" in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Chanticleer_(ensemble)
Franz Biebl Franz Xaver Biebl (1 September 1906 2 October 2001) was a German composer of classical music. Most of his compositions were for choral ensembles.Biebl was born in Pursruck, now part of Freudenberg, Bavaria, in 1906. He studied composition at the Musikhochschule in Munich. Franz_Biebl
Majid Naini Professor Majid M. Naini is a leading scholar of Rumi, the 13th century Persian mystic (Sufi), who has been the best-selling poet in the U.S. for the past several years. Majid_Naini
Frank Albinder Frank Scott Albinder is an internationally acclaimed conductor of male choral music. A former director of Chanticleer, Albinder currently conducts the Washington Men's Camerata, the Woodley Ensemble, and the Virginia Glee Club, and is president of Intercollegiate Men's Choruses, Inc., Frank_Albinder