About the College Choir
The Holy Cross College Choir is a mixed (SATB) group of roughly sixty undergraduate singers from all across the Holy Cross campus. While there are a handful of music majors in the group, the choir is open, by audition, to any student in any class year. The College Choir is the College's concert and touring chorus. It maintains a vigorous, challenging schedule, including performances of major choral/orchestral masterworks of the Western Classical tradition, as well as lighter selections. Typically, the Choir performs three to four concerts on campus each year in the stunning St. Joseph Memorial Chapel. Highlights of each season include the annual Family Weekend Concert as well as the Advent Festival of Lessons and Carols.
In the Fall of 2005, the College Choir was joined by renowned soprano Dawn Upshaw, and Venezuelan conductor Maria Guinand in a concert of Sacred Latin American music, featuring excerpts from Holy Cross composer Osvaldo Golijov's Passion According to St. Mark. Other recent performances include Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Beethoven’s Mass in C Major, Verdi’s Requiem, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Regina Coeli, and excerpts from La Clemenza di Tito. In addition, the Choir had the opportunity to perform in both Saint Peter’s Basilica and the Chiesa Il Gesù in Rome in May, 2006, as part of a concert tour to Rome and Tuscany. In May, 2007, the Choir embarked on a concert tour of the Northeast Corridor, including concerts in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. In August, 2007, sixteen members of the Choir performed Osvaldo Golijov's Passion According to St. Mark in its entirety with the Schola Cantorum of Caracas, Venezuela, as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. The Choir traveled to Spain in May, 2009 to perform in Madrid, Seville, Granada, and Malaga; and in May of 2011, the Choir will return to New York City and Washington D. C.
Upcoming concerts this season include Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace with the combined choirs of the Worcester Consortium, orchestra and soloists on Sunday, May 1st, in Worcester’s Mechanics Hall.