Annual Choir Festival, 2005. Photo by Paul Goldfinger ©
The Choir Festival is a major musical event each season in Ocean Grove. It will be held in the Great Auditorium, where there will be 1000 voices representing choral organizations from throughout the Eastern United States. Dr. Jason Tramm, Ocean Grove’s Director of Music Ministries, will conduct. The choir will be accompanied by the Festival Brass and by the Hope Jones Organ, played by Organist-In-Residence Dr. Gordon Turk. There will be guest soloists including Ocean Grove’s Ronald Naldi, a tenor who sings with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Seven guest conductors will also appear. The event starts at 7 :30 P.M.