About the College Choir
The Holy Cross College Choir is a mixed (SATB) group of roughly 65 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.
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 Spring 2005, the Choir performed Carl Orff's Carmina Burana along with the other colleges of the Worcester Consortium at the famed Mechanics Hall. In the Fall 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. Last spring, the Choir collaborated with the Holy Cross Chamber Orchestra to perform Mozart's Coronation Mass, Regina Coeli, and excerpts from La Clemenza di Tito, in celebration of the composer's 250th birthday. Finally, and most recently, 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.
The Choir will embark on a Northeast concert tour in May 2007, making stops in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. The tour will run from May 13-20, 2007.