About Us
The Colorado Hebrew Chorale is a non-auditioned community choir.
Our members are Orthodox; Conservative; Reform; Reconstructionist: Unaffiliated and non-Jewish
Our members are people who work full time; retirees; students and teachers.
Our members range in age from 14 to 80 – and counting!
Our members sometimes miss rehearsals and/or performances, because when you are an adult “life happens”.
If you love to sing (and can carry a tune) and want to learn many different types of Jewish music, please come check us out!
We will teach you how to pronounce the words! We have a skills class to help you learn the basics of reading music!
We meet every Monday night (check the rehearsal calendar to be sure) at the Hebrew Educational Alliance 3600 S Ivanhoe St, Denver CO
Skills class: 7:00 – 7:30PM Regular rehearsal 7:30 – 9:30PM
About our Musicians
In addition to our regular accompanist, Travis Yamamoto, many guest instrumentalists join the Chorale for performances. We have been lucky enough to have drummers, violinists, clarinetists, guitarists, cellists and trumpet players join us through the years.
Most of these musicians support our mission and donate their services. Their talent adds a special dimension to our performances, and we appreciate them very much.
If you would like to join our list of instrumentalist, contact Carol Kozak Ward at (303) 355-0232.
Carol Kozak Ward
Conductor and Music Director, Colorado Hebrew Chorale
For over thirty years, Carol Kozak Ward has been an educator, performer, conductor and specialist in the Hebrew choral repertoire.
She has given presentations on Jewish choral music at both State and National choral director conventions, and has taught at a variety of public, private and parochial schools and universities. She is presently on the faculty of the Montessori School of Denver.
In addition, Ms. Ward is an advocate of contemporary choral music. She includes newly somposed works in her programming and has commissioned works by such composers as Gerald Cohen, Martin Bresnick, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Aaron Jay Kernis.
Ms. Ward holds a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the Yale University School of Music as well as an M.A. in Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. As an undergraduate at New York University, she majored in Near Eastern Studies and spent her junior year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Originally from Connecticut, Ms. Ward and her family lived in Haifa, Israel for six years before relocating to Colorado in 1991.
Travis Yamamoto
Pianist, Colorado Hebrew Chorale
Travis Yamamoto has worked as a pianist and/or musical director for Country Dinner Playhouse, the Carousel Dinner Theatre, Heritage Square Music Hall, the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Littleton Town Hall, and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
An active composer, he is the winner of a composition award from the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy, has had two works featured on the required repertoire list of the Junior Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, and has been the recipient of awards from the ASCAP Standards Awards Panel.
Mr. Yamamoto holds degrees from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the University of Southern California.
