Choirs team for concerts in Sun City, Sun City West

The West Valley’s own Sounds of the Southwest Singers and Sounds of the Southwest Chorale community choirs are uniting in song to perform their Sacred Sounds Concert, highlighting various arrangements of hymns such as “Come Christians Join to Sing,” “Great is Thy Faithfulness” and “It is Well with my Soul.”

Both groups are joining forces 3 p.m. Sunday, April 21, at American Lutheran Church, 17200 W. Del Webb Blvd., and 3 p.m.  Sunday, April 28, at Crown of Life Lutheran Church, 13131 W. Spanish Garden Drive.

There is free admission to both concerts; as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, contributions are always appreciated, but never required.

The choirs will perform individually and conclude jointly with additional inspirational singing, bringing together more than 100 voices for this musical experience.

The Sounds of the Southwest Singers perform year-round throughout the West Valley, and the Sounds of the Southwest Chorale performs annually, beginning in September through the following May. They have sung locally in various venues and for professional sporting events. Nationally they have performed on the stages of New York, Washington DC, Disneyland, CA, Pearl Harbor, HI, Washington state and Alaska.

Internationally they have performed in the UK, France, Germany, Austria, Ireland and Italy. This fall, members of both choirs are scheduled to perform concerts throughout multiple cities in Italy.

In 2010, founding director Matt Deller formed the Sounds of the Southwest Singers and in 2015 he founded the Sounds of the Southwest Chorale. In addition to his choral directing, Deller has performed professionally as a percussionist and timpanist in several orchestras spanning his nearly 35-year career. He mentors conductors and musicians to help them perfect their craft. Deller attends choral and orchestral workshops and seminars throughout the country, including in New York, at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Baylor University, to name a few.

Each group has an extensive repertoire, where the SSWS perform their Patriotic, Faith & Freedom concerts, Sounds of Broadway/Pop and their Sacred Sounds concerts. They also perform a Sounds of Christmas and a Variety of Sounds Concert, where the music selections encompass all of the different genres in one concert. Later this year they are expanding their performances with a new category of songs by presenting their new Sounds of the ‘60s and ‘70s. The SSWC is smaller in numbers and their repertoire ranges from the more traditional styles of music with a classical feel, to the cantatas of today’s contemporary composers.