Gillette Chamber Singers

We’re looking for people who love to sing great music with northeast Wyoming’s premier chorale ensemble. Simply fill out our audition form at gillettechambersingers.com/auditions and we’ll contact you with all the details you’ll need. All voice parts are encouraged to audition so we can increase the size of our group and enhance our sound. Our fall season features our 2nd Annual Fall Choral Festival on October 11-12, the 32nd Annual Christmas Dinners on December 7 and 14, and A Service of Lessons and Carols on December 18 and 19.

We have a new Director! Steve Grussendorf will become our new Artistic Director to begin our upcoming fall season. Steve has taught choral music and directed choirs at Natrona County High School since 1996. He has been a choral clinician and adjudicator for schools all over the state of Wyoming since 1990, and directed the Casper Civic Chorale, an adult community choir, from 2012-2019.
He received his Master of Music degree from Colorado State University, and his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Wyoming. He also studied at Casper College under our past Artistic Director, Dr. Pat Patton.
Steve has directed choirs of all ages for the past 36 years, including middle and high school students, college students (Western Wyoming College and Casper College) and adult choirs (Green River Messiah Choir and the Casper Civic Chorale).
We are so excited to welcome Steve to our Gillette Chamber Singers’ family and can’t wait to start our fall season in September.

Congratulations to our Fall Choral Festival Scholarship recipients: Shayne Howe from TBHS and Emily Gonzales from Wright Jr/Sr High. Assistant Director Paul Ormseth and Board member Bill Rathbun presented the awards at each school’s Scholarship Night. Best wishes to these two great students—we know they have bright futures!

If you didn’t have the chance to catch our spring concert on May 4, check it out on our YouTube channel. We loved the music, and we know you will too! Thanks to Gillette Public Access TV for this recording.

2024 Spring Concert - "Made in America" by the Gillette Chamber Singers Dr. Joel Schreuder, Artistic Director; Paul Ormseth, Assistant Director; & Diana Rutz, Accompanist. Performed at the 1st Presbyterian Church of Gillette,...

Thanks to the Casper Civic Chorale and Cheyenne Capital Chorale for a great concert yesterday! We performed a few of our own pieces and joined the other two choirs with over 100 singers onstage at Wheeler Concert Hall. We hope to do it again sometime!

Save the date for this great statewide 24-hour fundraising event to bring the state together as one community to raise money and awareness for Wyoming’s nonprofits. It’s our 4th year of participating in WyoGives and we’re truly grateful to all our donors and supporters.

Tickets are now available for our upcoming joint concert: Coming Together in Song on May 5, 2024. We’ll be performing at 3:30 pm in the beautiful Wheeler Concert Hall at Casper College. We’ll be joining the Casper Civic Chorale and the Cheyenne Capital Chorale to sing together, and perform our own music. You’ll hear The Road Home by Stephen Paulus, Wondrous Love as arranged by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw, and a traditional spiritual called My Good Lord’s a-Done-a Been Here. Scan the QR code below to purchase tickets.

Save the date! We’re excited to present a collaborative concert with the Casper Civic Chorale and Cheyenne Capital Chorale in the beautiful Wheeler Concert Hall at Casper College. We will be performing together, and each group will highlight some of their own music from recent concerts. It’s an opportunity for us to sing with these adult choirs from around the state—truly “coming together” with our love of choral music.

Save the Date! Our spring concert features all American choral composers. You’ll hear several spirituals, some of our all-time favorites like “The Road Home”, and “Frostiana” by Randall Thompson, which is a series of songs set to the poetry of Robert Frost. Believe it or not, we first sang “Frostiana” in 1997 under the direction of Dr. Jerry Winter. Some of us even remember singing this beautiful piece with Dr. Winter!

The holiday season is now officially over as we “undecorate” the Prime Rib Restaurant. Marilynn is sorting ornaments, Bill is taking down garland, and Sonja is vacuuming up A LOT of glitter. We’ll begin rehearsing for our spring season soon, which will feature a special joint concert in Casper on May 5 with the Casper Civic Chorale and the Cheyenne Capitol Chorale. And save the date for our spring concert in Gillette on Saturday, May 4.

It’s Christmas Eve-Eve, and we wish all our friends, families and supporters a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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Here is a link to our December 14 performance of A Service of Lessons and Carols, with Con Brio and Cantabile choirs from Thunder Basin High School. Both performances, plus other Gillette Chamber Singer concert videos are available on our YouTube channel. Thanks to Jeremy Harder, Gillette Public Access television and the City of Gillette for recording these services.

2023 A Service of Lessons and Carols by the Gillette Chamber Singers and the Thunder Basin HS Choirs 2023 A Service of Lessons and CarolsDecember 14th, 2023Recorded by Gillette Public Access TV at The First Presbyterian Church of Gillette.The Gillette Chambe...

Thanks to our generous patrons, we were able to donate $708 each to the Council of Community Services and GARF from our Service of Lessons and Carols concerts last week. Members Barb McNutt and Vicki Gilmour presented the checks to Mikel Scott (CCS) and Susie Renken (GARF). If you didn’t have a chance to be there in person, you can watch each service on our YouTube channel or access them on GPA TV’s website: https://www.gillettewy.gov/city-government/departments/administration/gillette-public-access-gpa/streaming-media-links/channel-190-live/channel-190-archive, under Special Events.
Happy watching!

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Thanks to GPA TV for filming our annual Service of Lessons and Carols. Please enjoy Wednesday’s program with the Twin Spruce Jr. High Choir. We’ll post Thursday’s program tomorrow. Happy Holidays!

2023 - A Service of Lessons & Carols by the Gillette Chamber Singers and Twin Spruce Jr High Choir. 2023 A Service of Lessons and CarolsDecember 13th, 2023Recorded by Gillette Public Access TV at the First Presbyterian Church of Gillette.The Gillette Chambe...

The Service of Lessons and Carols is one of our favorite annual events! We are pleased to have two wonderful groups of young singers join us this year: the Twin Spruce Jr. High choir, directed by Nathan Searcey; and Thunder Basin High School’s Con Brio and Cantabile choirs, directed by Kimbrie Garcia. There is no admission, and a free will offering will benefit two nonprofit organizations in our community: The Council of Community Services and Gillette Abuse Refuge Foundation (GARF). Please join us!