Our HistoryFounded in December of 2014 by member Robby Napoli, Lux is a semi-professional chamber choir that specializes in contemporary choral music and consists of members from seventeen to twenty-five years old. Lux is a young group with a dedication to friendship, fun, and excellence in choral performance. Listeners have described Lux as “ten thousand angels singing in heaven,” and as "beautiful," "lovely," and "wonderful" by the likes of composers Paul Mealor and Eric Whitacre.
While on retreat in the Fall of 2014, the choir at DeMatha Catholic High School read through a beautiful piece written by Morten Lauridsen called Ave Dulcissima Maria. Robby and many others loved the piece, and were sad to hear that they were not, in fact, going to perform it. Then they did what any group of high school juniors and seniors would do - they got a group together and learned it themselves! They gathered at St. Jerome's Church, where the group still rehearses, and learned this piece and two others, recording them with an HD camcorder. Only one song came out well, but listening to that recording gave them a feeling they'd never had before. Later that year, Robby and baritone John Mullan saw Eric Whitacre conduct The Crossing (a professional choir in Philadelphia). When they began singing Whitacre's Sainte-Chapelle, they were floored. As time went on, they, along with bass Tommy Rust, only became more enamored of the piece. They finally decided to get more friends together and try it out, along with a few others. The next winter, they did it again, and a choir was born. In the Summer of 2016, the group finally settled on a name, Lux, put on their first concert, and released their first album. Today, we've finished seven seasons over a span of four years, and are en route to releasing our second album. |
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