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California State University—Long Beach Choral Audacity
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Choral Audacity is a chamber choir with a mission to
center stories of marginalized communities through pro-

Pacific Standard Time is the top vocal jazz ensemble gramming of underrepresented composers with a ros-
at California State University—Long Beach, Bob Cole ter of underrepresented singers. Incorporated in 2018
Conservatory of Music. The ensemble has performed as a project-based ensemble, Choral Audacity cultivates
at the most prestigious state, national, and internation- excellence through performance, mentorship, scholar-
al music conferences and festivals including JEN, IAJE, ship, and community. Choral Audacity has presented
ACDA, and California MEA. They have also performed programs such as: We All Live Here (American music
as featured artists at the Playboy Jazz Festival on the through the eyes of BIPOC), Freedom Come (music of
stage of the Hollywood Bowl. Pacific Standard Time civil rights movement and the apartheid), Wildfi re (music

has competed at the Monterey Next Generation Jazz in response to the California wildfires), and Balikbayan

Festival and taken first place in the Collegiate Vocal Jazz (stories of Overseas Filipino Workers).
Ensemble division four times.
Darita Seth is a Cambodian-American
Christine Guter is the director of vocal conductor, Haute-Contre, and composer.
jazz at California State University—Long Seth is president and artistic director of
Beach and director the award-winning vo- Choral Audacity and associate director of
cal jazz ensemble, Pacific Standard Time. Cantabella Children’s Chorus. Originally

An extraordinary educator, Guter is active from Columbus, Ohio, Seth relocated to Long Beach
internationally as an adjudicator and clinician, and has from the San Francisco Bay Area in 2021, where he
conducted numerous all-state jazz and honor choirs. She served as the director of music at St. Timothy’s Episco-
is also a board member of the non-profi t organization pal Church and associate director of the Danville Girls
Jazz Education Abroad. She also works professionally as Chorus. In 2016, he concluded his tenure as a counter-
a jazz vocalist and studio singer and has sung on dozens tenor with Chanticleer. He holds a BM from Capital
of Hollywood soundtracks. University and is currently completing his MM at CSU
Long Beach.

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