The Crossing

The Crossing is a professional chamber choir, conducted by Donald Nally, that sings only new music, bringing together creative teams to imagine, present, and record new, substantial works for choir that look at the world and our place in it. Often using a journalistic approach to text curation, The Crossing commissions music that explores and expands ways of writing for choir, singing in choir, and listening to music for choir; many of its nearly 200 commissioned premieres address social, environmental, and political issues. With a commitment to recording, The Crossing has issued 36 albums, receiving four Grammy Awards for Best Choral Performance (2018, 2019, 2023, 2025), and ten Grammy nominations in nine consecutive years. The Crossing collaborates with some of the world’s most accomplished ensembles, artists, and venues: Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Park Avenue Armory, Disney Hall, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Lyric Fest, Allora & Calzadilla, Bang on a Can, Klockriketeatern, International Contemporary Ensemble, Cleveland Museum of Art, Menil Collection in Houston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, The Big Sing (formerly Haarlem Choral Biennale) in The Netherlands, Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, Kennedy Center in Washington, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Recent university residencies include Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Duke, Northwestern, Chicago, Iowa, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Notre Dame. Recent touring has taken the ensemble to the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam with Shara Nova’s Titration; Cincinnati, Ithaca, and the University of Chicago’s Neubauer Collegium with a world premiere of Jennifer Higdon and commissioned music of Caroline Shaw, Edie Hill, and Ayanna Woods; Haarlem (The Netherlands) and Caramoor Center for Music and Arts with Ted Hearne’s Farming, which premiered outdoors on a farm in Bucks County, PA; Helsinki and The Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm with Robert Maggio’s Aniara; many cities, from Princeton to Lincoln, with David Lang’s poor hymnal; and New York with the world premiere of John Luther Adams’ Vespers of the Blessed Earth at Carnegie Hall with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and with two works of Julia Wolfe with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center: Fire in my Mouth (2019) and unEarth (2023). The Crossing, with Donald Nally, was Musical America’s 2024 Ensemble of the Year, the American Composers Forum’s 2017 Champion of New Music, and received the 2015 Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence from Chorus America. The Crossing is represented by Alliance Artist Management.