Singers of New and Ancient Music (SONAM) is a chorus committed to creating high-quality sacred and secular music and giving back to the community. Our mission is to make excellent choral music that supports local non-profits through benefit concerts.

SONAM was established in 2012 and became officially a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 2022. The group consists of about 30 talented singers from central North Carolina, led by music director Allan Friedman and accompanist Jane Lynch.

Join SONAM for our 2023-24 season continuing Saturday, March 30, 2024 at 7:00 pm at Baldwin Auditorium on the campus of Duke University in Durham, NC, as we join the Durham Medical Orchestra and Duke Chorale to perform Eric Whitacre's The Sacred Veil, alongside other music of love and loss by Karl Jenkins and Ralph Vaughan Williams. To find out more, please visit the Facebook event for the concert!

Then, on Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 4:00 pm at First Presbyterian Church of Durham, join use for the Master's recital for SONAM Fellow Jada Poteat.  See our Upcoming Concerts page for more information, and thanks to everyone who came out to support Durham Tech's Mobile Health Lab on January 6!