Meet Trey Clegg | Founder/Artistic Director, The Trey Clegg Singers, Inc.

We had the good fortune of connecting with Trey Clegg and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Trey, what is the most important factor behind your success?
The most important factor behind our success and the success of our brand has been the unwavering support of the community. Our community around us has “bought in” to our mission of using choral music as a healing force to inspire a passion for reconciliation, equity, and unity. The financial support from corporations as well as individual donors continues to sustain us, and the attendance at all of our performances provides us with the tools we need to achieve our goals.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
The Trey Clegg Singers, Inc. is Atlanta’s Premiere Semi-Professional Multicultural Chorus. We are a nonprofit organization with a mission to use music as a healing force to inspire a passion for reconciliation, equity, and unity. We are comprised of 50 singers, all of whom are auditioned with extensive musical backgrounds, and who represent multiple ethnic groups, religious backgrounds, sexual orientations, and generations. I am very proud of the way in which the singers among our membership within their own diversity get to know each other and are active in each other’s lives both on and off stage.

For all of my life, I have wanted a Chorus that looked and sounded like the truly international population of Atlanta. It took about 20 years to achieve, but this seems to be our season! While funding is always a major challenge, we have been awarded several grants (including a recent grant from the National Endowment for the Arts) as well as gifts from private donors which sustain us. Sometimes we are hanging on by a thread to stay financially afloat, but a funding source always pulls us through!

Our brand and our story are simple: Healing Through Music

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
The Jimmy Carter Museum The Martin Luther King, Jr. Museum
The National Center for Civil and Human Rights
The High Museum of Art
The Michael Carlos Museum at Emory University
The Atlanta History Museum
The Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
The Sundial at the Westin Peachtree Plaza
Chops and Lobster Bar
The Capital Grille
Bones
Fogo de Chao
Desta Ethiopian Kitchen
Alma Cocina

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
Atlanta Mayor, The Honorable Andre Dickens, is a supporter of ours who has provided so encouragement and performance opportunities for us to share our mission in the city.

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