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Artists and Dates Subject to Change
2025-2026 Season
Artists & Dates subject to change.
Missouri State University Chorale
Friday, January 9, 2026 7:30pm
Doors open at 7:00pm for seating.
Tickets will be available at the door
Join the internationally acclaimed Missouri State University Chorale, led by Dr. Cameron F. LaBarr, for a concert that spans centuries and continents at the Cathedral Basilica.
The program features a rich and varied repertoire, including works in French, Ukrainian, Afrikaans, and Latin, highlighted by two major compositions. Guest soprano Kara McBain and cellist Dr. Dan Ketter join the Chorale for Hyowon Woo’s four-movement Requiem, a moving work that blends Korean and Western musical traditions. The concert also features Frank Martin’s celebrated 20th-century a cappella masterpiece Mass for Double Choir.
The Missouri State University Chorale is led by Cameron LaBarr, conductor and Parker Payne, collaborative pianist. The Chorale performs regularly at national and international festivals, conferences, and competitions, including those for the American Choral Directors Association, the National Collegiate Choral Organization (USA), the Tolosa Choral Contest (Basque Region, Spain), the China International Choral Festival, the World Voices Conference of the International Federation for Choral Music (Kaili, China), and the Lanzhou International Choral Festival (China). The MSU Chorale has performed by invitation at presidential and gubernatorial inaugurations in the United States. Within the past decade, the Chorale has toured South Africa (2016 and 2022), and also to Iceland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden (2018), to China (2018), to South Korea in (February 2024), and most recently to Chile and Argentina (May 2024). The Missouri State University Chorale is recorded commercially on several albums available on iTunes, Spotify, and other music platforms, including an upcoming album recorded in collaboration with the TUKS Camerata in March of 2025.
The program is bookended by works by Frank Martin. The concert opens with Martin’s Notre Pere, a reflective and chant-like setting of the Lord’s prayer. Following this will be two motet settings, Byrd’s Vigilate from the 16th century and MacMillan’s Factus Est Repente from the 20th century.
Havrylet’s Prayer and Hyo-Won Woo’s Requiem will feature soprano soloist Kara McBain, guest artist at MSU. Prayer is a beautiful plea for protection, sung in Ukrainian. Woo’s Requiem is a four-movement work for soprano solo, cello, and choir. Dr. Dan Ketter from MSU will be featured on cello. The work is representative of Woo’s compositional style, a fusion of Korean and Western musical genres.
Die Onse Vader by Zander Fick is a stunning setting of the Lord’s Prayer in Afrikaans. Following will be the beloved Ave Maria by Franz Biebl.
We close the program with Frank Martin’s monumental work, Mass for Double Choir. This is one of the most outstanding works for a cappella choir of the 20th century. This work is deeply spiritual and reflective, and it quite rare to hear this work in person.
Tickets will be available at the door
General Admission: $20
Student: $10 at the door with a valid Student ID
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Tuesday, February 10, 2026 7:30pm
The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir (EPCC) is one of the best-known Estonian music ensembles in the world. The choir was founded in 1981 by Tõnu Kaljuste, who was its artistic director and chief conductor for twenty years. From 2001–2007, the English musician Paul Hillier took over. Daniel Reuss collaborated with the choir as its chief conductor from 2008–2013 and Kaspars Putniņš from 2014–2021. Since the 2021/2022 season the artistic director and chief conductor is Tõnu Kaljuste.
The repertoire of the choir extends from Gregorian chant and baroque to the music of the 21st century, with a special focus on the work of Estonian composers, such as Arvo Pärt, Veljo Tormis, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Galina Grigorjeva, Tõnu Kõrvits, introducing their works to the world. Each season the choir gives about 60–70 concerts both in Estonia and abroad.
In 2020 BBC Music Magazine has named the EPCC one of the 10 best choirs in the world.
Tickets:
Section 1: $55
Section 2: $40
Section 3: $25
Student: $10 at the door with a valid Student ID
VOCES8
Monday, February 23, 2026 7:30pm
Welcomed by Bruce & Linda Ryder
The 2023 Grammy-nominated British vocal ensemble VOCES8 is proud to inspire people through music and share the joy of singing. Touring globally, the group performs an extensive repertory both in its a cappella concerts and in collaborations with leading musicians, orchestras and conductors. Versatility and a celebration of diverse musical expression are central to the ensemble’s performance and education ethos which is shared both online and in person. VOCES8 is the flagship ensemble of the VOCES8 Foundation which actively promotes ‘Music Education For All’, reaching up to 40,000 people annually.
VOCES8 has performed at many notable venues from Wigmore Hall to Sydney Opera House. This season they perform over 100 concerts globally. Online the VOCES8 Digital Academy and the LIVE From London digital festival continue. They publish music and educational material with VOCES8 Publishing, E.C. Schirmer and Edition Peters, including The VOCES8 Method written by Paul Smith. Ken Burton is Composer-in-Residence with Jim Clements as Arranger-in-Residence. Their new album “Nightfall” is released in September 2024, joining previous releases “A Choral Christmas”, Christopher Tin’s “The Lost Birds” (a Grammy-Award nominee), “Home” conducted by Eric Whitacre, featuring “The Sacred Veil” and “Seven Psalms” by Paul Simon.
Tickets:
Section 1: $50
Section 2: $35
Section 3: $25
Student: $10 at the door with a valid Student ID
Vox Una
with St. Louis Area High School Choirs
Sunday, March 8, 2026 2:30pm
The mission of Vox Una, directed by Addie Akin, is to provide area students enrolled in a single-gender Catholic school an unmatched and unique choral experience, fostering a lifelong love for choral music, and allow students to perform collegiate-level mixed repertoire with excellence, integrity, and the highest level of musicianship.
Vox Una will be joined by the choirs from:
Visitation Academy
Cor Jesu Academy
SLUH
St. Dominic High School
Presented with support from the Vassia Foundation.
Tickets not required – Freewill donation taken at the door
The Three Italian Tenors
Friday, March 27, 2026 7:30pm
Welcomed by Michael Cross & Italian Holidays, LLC.
The Three Italian Tenors
The Three Italian Tenors present an extraordinary program of the most famously beloved Sacred Arias and Songs, fusing Italian wit and charm with romanticism, lyricism, dramatic flair and operatic style. This project is the inaugural tour in the United States of this sensational new Italian ensemble.
This exhilarating and unique musical event features original arrangements to universally loved Italian song and tenor arias, presenting memorable melodies and themes performed by the incredible Italian Trio Tenors in a stunning program that voyages through nostalgia with favorite memorable classics. Audiences will be captivated with this first concert tour of North America by the spectacular Three Italian Tenors. Tenors Giovanni Maria Palmia, Ugo Tarquini and Alessandro Fantoni will be accompanied by Fabrizio Mocata on piano.
Tickets:
Section 1: $50
Section 2: $35
Section 3: $25
Student: $10 at the door with a valid Student ID
St. Louis Area Collegiate Choirs
Tuesday, April 7, 2026 7:30pm
Experience some of the finest Collegiate Choirs from around the St. Louis area including the choirs from:
Washington University
University of Missouri – St. Louis
Missouri Baptist University
Lindenwood University
Southeast Missouri State University
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
East Central College
Presented with support from the Vassia Foundation.
Tickets not required – Freewill donation taken at the door
The Tallis Scholars
Friday, April 17, 2026 7:30pm
Over five decades of performance and a catalogue of award-winning recordings for Gimell, Peter Phillips and The Tallis Scholars have done more than any other group to establish sacred vocal music of the Renaissance as one of the great repertoires of Western classical music.
They have sought to bring Renaissance works to a wider audience in churches, cathedrals and venues on every continent on the planet except Antarctica! These include the Royal Albert Hall, the Sistine Chapel, the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall New York, the Philharmonic Hall Berlin, Saint Mark’s Venice, Seoul Arts Centre Korea, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre London, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall, Beijing Concert Hall, Megaron Athens and the Opera House Sydney.
The Tallis Scholars continue to develop their exclusive sound, praised by reviewers for its supple clarity and tone, and to bring fresh interpretations to music by contemporary as well as past composers, such as Pärt, Tavener, Whitacre, Muhly and Jackson.
‘one of the UK’s greatest cultural exports’ – BBC Radio 3
Tickets:
Section 1: $50
Section 2: $35
Section 3: $25
Student: $10 at the door with a valid Student ID
Cappella Romana
The Twilight of Byzantium
Sunday, April 26, 2026 7:30pm
Founder and Artistic Director, Dr. Alexander Lingas
“Twilight of Byzantium” features chants from the time of the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, ending a thousand-year empire. Cappella Romana will perform beneath the magnificent mosaics of North America’s largest Byzantine cathedral in St. Louis.
Cappella Romana is a professional vocal ensemble that performs early and contemporary sacred classical music in the Christian traditions of East and West. The ensemble is known especially for its presentations and recordings of medieval Byzantine chant (the Eastern sibling of Gregorian chant), Greek and Russian Orthodox choral works, and other sacred music that expresses the historic traditions of a unified Christian inheritance.
Cappella Romana presents sacred choral music that engages audiences with an experience of music from medieval times as well as by contemporary composers.
A presentation by Cappella Romana is an experience unlike any other classical choral music concert. Each of its events reveal something transcendent. In the space of our performances and our recordings, we bring to the public the music of the common Christian inheritance.
A Cappella Romana performance takes you on a journey of discovery. Some programs feature ancient music never before heard by modern audiences; on other occasions new or rediscovered works are brought to audiences by leading contemporary composers. Our programs create a dynamic experience of immersion in sound and space, tradition and history, innovation and light.
Tickets:
Section 1: $50
Section 2: $35
Section 3: $25
Student: $10 at the door with a valid Student ID
Monsignor James T. Telthorst – St. Louis Cathedral Concerts Endowment Fund
$35,000 Matching Gift Challenge
In 1992, St. Louis Cathedral Concerts was established with the enthusiastic support of Msgr. James T. Telthorst, who was the Rector of the Cathedral Basilica at the time and who went on to serve for many years as a member of the Cathedral Concerts board. Msgr. Telthorst was also the recipient of the “Great Music Award” at our gala event in May of 2013 in appreciation of his ongoing commitment to and support of Cathedral Concerts.
Today, St. Louis Cathedral Concerts has secured perpetual support with the creation of an endowment fund named in Msgr. Telthorst’s honor. The Monsignor James T. Telthorst – Cathedral Concerts Endowment Fund was established through the generosity of several donors and will provide annual distributions that will help St. Louis Cathedral Concerts fulfill its mission of presenting affordable live concerts in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis featuring world-class musicians and the finest repertoire of sacred and classical music.
A generous anonymous donor has pledged to match gifts up to $35,000, thereby doubling your giving power! Gifts to The Monsignor James T. Telthorst – Cathedral Concerts Endowment Fund should be made directly to the Roman Catholic Foundation.
Click here to make your gift.
Great Music in a Great Space!
St. Louis Cathedral Concerts is where ALL of St. Louis experiences “Great Music in a Great Space!”
Join us for an evening of spectacular music featuring the world’s best musicians in one of the world’s grandest Cathedrals.
Our Mission:
To present affordable live concerts in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis featuring world-class musicians and the finest repertoire of sacred and classical music for the cultural enrichment, education, and enjoyment of the entire region.
“STUDENT RUSH” Tickets
Students with a valid Student I.D. can get a ticket at the door
for any concert in the best available section for just $10.
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Policy for children under 8 years of age:
We do not recommend children under the age of 8 attend the concerts.
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We receive no funding from, nor provide funding to, the Archdiocese of St. Louis or the Cathedral Parish.
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