In the chaos of modern life, we can all benefit from an hour of basking in an oasis of calm. The chorus provides you this opportunity by presenting a concert of reflection under the baton of our new artistic director, Nicholas Quardokus.

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Charleston Symphony Chorus – A Concert of Reflection

Grace Church Cathedral

Grammy Award-winning organist Paul Jacobs is helping The “King of Instruments” retake its rightful place in classical music. Jacobs and the organ itself are featured throughout this program including Steven Paulus’s Grand Concerto with its “spicy harmonies and shining lyricism." The organ is dramatically featured as an integral part of Saint-Saens’ third symphony, notably the dramatic conclusion. 

Organ Symphony

Toledo Museum of Art

Delight in the traditional Christmas carols and festive folksongs from around the world. Big, bold versions of your favorite holiday music, sung as only the Los Angeles Master Chorale can. Fun for the whole family, children aged six and older are welcome to attend

Festival of Carols

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Byron Smith and Clark Joseph lead the New England Symphonic Ensemble, chorus, and soloists in an evening of Gospel music. Jeanne Wohlgamuth conducts treble choir in works by Stephen Paulus, Kim Andre Arnesen, Paul Basler, and more. Ryan Holder conducts the world premiere of excerpts from Anders Edenroth’s Lionteeth, and Cvetozar Vutev conducts Imant Raminsh’s Missa Brevis.

New England Symphonic Ensemble

Carnegie Hall

Celebrate the end of an era as Ronald Jenkins takes the podium for his last concert as Chorus Director of the Columbus Symphony Chorus. For 41 years, Mr. Jenkins built the all-volunteer chorus to become a mainstay of Columbus Symphony programming. The closing concert of the Masterworks season will feature music from Great Britain, with favorites such as "Nimrod" from Elgar’s Enigma Variations. The program will also honor Memorial Day with Vaughan Williams’s powerful cantata, Dona Nobis Pacem.

Welcome to Spring

Ohio Theatre

Donna M. Di Grazia, David J. Baldwin Professor of Music, leads the celebrated Pomona College Glee Club in a program of music for a spring tour to England and Scotland.

Pomona College Glee Club in Concert

Pomona College

Join the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Chorus, and choirmaster Ronald J. Jenkins for American Choral Classics.

American Choral Classics

Saint Mary Catholic Church

Give Me Your Stars explores the profound and diverse beauty of music inspired by the heavens, human connection, and the places we call home. At its heart is Lucy Walker’s eponymous new work, written for VOCES8, which captures the delicate balance between celestial wonder and the deep, personal connections that make us human.

The programme spans centuries of choral music, from the luminous polyphony of Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Regina caeli to timeless jazz standards. Along the way, we encounter the reflective sentiments of Eric Whitacre’s All Seems Beautiful to Me and Ola Gjeilo’s Ubi caritas, folk traditions in Danny Boy and Michael McGlynn’s Dúlamán, and evocative tales of cities and starlight in April in Paris and New York, New York.

Voces8

Cadogan Hall 

VOCES8, joined by composer-in-residence, Taylor Scott Davis, and choirs from across the United States, collaborate with Vox Anima London in this unique choral offering featuring well-known and recently-composed repertoire, under the direction of Barnaby Smith.

The concert opens with VOCES8 performing alongside the visiting ensembles and culminates with VOCES8’s solo set of beloved repertoire and a return of all performing forces to the stage for a stunning finale.

Vox Anima London

Leigh Barrett is a beloved Boston-based actor, singer and director. Although she received her Bachelor's degree in Voice Performance, opera emphasis, from Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory in Ohio, she has found her home in musical theatre. 

Her very first stage was her parent's living room and every guest got treated to a show. There were costume changes, guest stars (her little sister Sue),  a jump rope microphone, and complicated choreography (the very advanced step, touch, and turn around).

From there she joined her church and high school choirs. And although she didn't really know what a "career" in music or acting was, she followed her best friend to Ohio to major in Music Education. Scared off by a middle school choir and shop class (don't ask), she switched her major to Voice Performance (because that’s not scary!). After graduation, she was cast in Little Shop of Horrors and she knew she had found her place. 

Stephen Paulus

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 28, 2026

Voces8 · Cadogan Hall

Mar 21, 2026

Vox Anima London · Cadogan Hall

11 - 12 Apr, 2026

April 11 & 12, 2026 · Greenwich Symphony Orchestra

Jun 6, 2026

Season Finale – Pictures · Livingston Symphony Orchestra

Past events

Jun 6, 2025

Charleston Symphony Chorus – A Concert of Reflection · Charleston Symphony

Apr 13, 2024

Organ Symphony · Toledo Symphony Orchestra

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