About Audivi
(2025-2026)
Audivi celebrates its thirteenth season as a professional vocal ensemble based in Detroit, Michigan. Performing music of all eras, Audivi has appeared at conventions and festivals including ACDA Central and North Central conventions, the AGO New England convention, and several tours through the continental United States. Equally at home with familiar and unusual repertoire, the professional singers frequently perform one-on-a-part, and present music rarely heard from other ensembles. Audivi has brought in Baroque specialist instrumentalists for Detroit-area historical-performance premieres of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers and Bach’s Mass in B minor and Handel’s Messiah. The singers in the group perform with top ensembles around the world. Many of the singers also have successful conducting careers of their own, and one of the co-founders now serves as music director for Chanticleer.
Audivi often joins the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as a larger chorus, expanding its numbers to accommodate projects as needed by the orchestra. Recent performances have included Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9, Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Puccini’s Turandot, Mahler’s Symphony no. 2, Bizet’s Carmen, and Orff’s Carmina Burana in 2025.
Audivi typically presents several projects per year in Michigan, mostly in the southeast region but also having visited Muskegon, Kalamazoo, Traverse City, and more. The ensemble welcomes interest from talented singers who wish to make music at the highest possible level, whether for chamber projects or for symphonic choruses. Audivi also does educational outreach work for collegiate and K-12 programs.
Noah Horn, artistic director
Noah Horn serves as Artistic Director of Audivi. For several years, he directed the choral program at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he conducted several choirs, supervised the master’s program in choral conducting, and taught music theory and ear training. He recently began tenure as Music Director of the Cantata Singers, a prominent choral ensemble in Boston.
Dr. Horn has served as interim Director of Choral Activities at Western Michigan University, faculty conductor of the Wesleyan University Orchestra, artistic director of Oakland Choral Society, music director at Grosse Pointe Woods Presbyterian Church, and director of the professional choirs at Christ Church, New Haven. As a professional tenor, he has sung with Conspirare, Spire, Yale Choral Artists, sounding light, and Arkora. As an organist he has given recitals across the US and in Europe. He holds the D.M.A. degree in choral conducting from Yale University, and a B.Mus. from Oberlin College.
Brian Leduc, Associate artistic director
Brian serves as the President of the Board and Associate Artistic Artistic Director of Audivi. A native of Detroit, he attended Wayne State University for undergraduate work in instrumental education and voice performance.
Brian serves as the 4th Executive Director of MSVMA, providing programming support and advocacy resources for vocal music programs across the state. Brian has served as Program Director of Cranbrook Theatre School, serving hundreds of students grades 2-12 every year, since 2017. He serves as the Program Coordinator for The Taverners for Holiday Nights in Greenfield Village at The Henry Ford, as the Associate Director of Music at Holy Name Catholic Church (Birmingham), and as Assistant Director of the Festival Choir at Congregation Shaarey Zedek (Southfield).
Brian has sung with myriad choral groups. He appears as a tenor soloist regularly in the Detroit area and internationally for works such as Handel’s “Messiah,” Verdi’s “Requiem,” and others, including a long list of relatively new works. Mainstage operatic credits include Spoletta (Tosca), Monostatos (Magic Flute), and Don Basilio (Marriage of Figaro), among others. Opera News quotes Brian as having a “ringing tenor” and being “especially impressive…with firm tonal impact.”