Mastersingers USA is a group of men who have some connection with Prof. Bruce McInnes, who retired in 2001 after leading singing groups at Yale University, Amherst College, and University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire, among other institutions.

Throughout his 40+ year career, Prof. McInnes has conducted tours of his singing groups to various parts of the world.  In 1995, a group of alumni decided to organize a “reunion” tour, which took place in 1996, and took 60 of us to Austria, Germany, and France.  With its success, Mastersingers USA was born.  We toured again in 2000 (to Austria, Italy, and France), and then again in 2003, taking us to Dublin, Edinburgh, York, London – and Llangollen.  In 2005 we participated in the First International Symposium for Men's Choirs in Barcelona.  And in 2007, we toured Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.

We are now on a schedule to meet and perform one weekend per year, with a tour every 2 or 3 years.  Though our rehearsal time together is brief and infrequent, we study our music intensively on our own prior to each meeting.  And we all benefit from many years of having sung under our director, Bruce McInnes.  Our repertoire consists of sacred music (masses, motets, anthems, etc.), folk music from many countries, and the American folk songs and spirituals, which we have found to be so popular all over the world. 

We now exist as a loosely-knit group of about 100 men from all over the U.S. and several foreign countries.  We range in age from 18 to 61, and those of us who are not retired or still in school pursue a variety of callings:  among our number are doctors, lawyers, professional musicians, ministers/priests, teachers/professors, business managers, etc.  What holds us together is a love of music, of our director, and of each other.

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