Inversion Ensemble is a professional choir that exists to make the music of living composers accessible to all audiences. Inversion’s focus is to commission and perform new works by local musicians, as well as U.S. composers and beyond. We incorporate modern visual art, dance, and poetry, creating comprehensive performance experiences. Every concert includes a partnership with a nonprofit that reflects our core values – ecology, LGBTQIA+ rights, social justice, and mental health awareness.
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There are three ensembles within Inversion: Our pro mixed ensemble, our pro treble ensemble Da Capo, and our community choir for singers who are 50+ Coda.
Our Core Values
Collaboration
Choral singing is inherently collaborative. Inversion works with living composers, adding an additional layer to the collaborative process. Through its community partnerships and audience engagement events, Inversion embraces the spirit of collaboration in all it undertakes.
Ensuring Equity
Diversity enriches the arts. New art forms flourish when the voices of disenfranchised and under-represented populations are included in programs, governance, and community activities. Inversion’s mission to commission and perform new music embraces a full range of races, genders and ages in its creative process and its leadership structure. It affiliates with other nonprofits that share its commitment to social justice.
Innovating and Risk-taking
Inversion was born to innovate. It is in a constant process of evolving and inventing through its multi-media programs, its non-traditional formats and venues, and its composers’ collaborative model. Its leadership stays abreast of musical trends and constantly seeks out new ideas and new forms of musical inspiration. Inversion is willing to take risks to explore the outer edges of its musical art form.
Aspiring to Excellence
Inversion’s composers, performers, and production teams strive for the highest possible levels of quality in musical performance and technical presentation. Its board upholds best practices in leadership, governance, and stewardship of the financial and human resources essential to fulfilling its mission.
Inversion Ensemble approved its new Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Policy Statement on June 25, 2024.
Inversion’s Health and Safety Policy was revised in February 2024 to comply with Senate Bill 7.
Inversion is a proud member of the C4 Network and its C4 Music Catalog.