The Saint Louis Chamber Chorus is a not-for-profit organization committed to presenting the finest a cappella choral works, seeking to entertain, educate, and inspire audiences through its unique programs in St. Louis’s finest public buildings. Embarking on its seventy-first season, the ensemble performs six concerts annually and may be heard on numerous compact discs and downloads from the Regent label. Under the direction of English conductor Philip Barnes, the Chamber Chorus combines outstanding acoustics with originality and excellence of its presentations, and has established an enviable reputation as the Midwest’s premier a cappella ensemble.

Program: The Fire of Heaven​

The Award-winning choir Tenebrae, under the direction of Nigel Short, is one of the world’s leading vocal ensembles renowned for its passion and precision.

“phenomenal” (The Times)

“devastatingly beautiful” (Gramophone Magazine)

Under the direction of Nigel Short, Tenebrae performs at major festivals and venues across the globe, including the BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Rheingau Musik Festival and Sydney Festival. The choir has earned international acclaim for its interpretations of choral music from the Renaissance through to contemporary masterpieces, and has commissioned new music from composers including Judith Bingham, Joanna Marsh, Owain Park, Josephine Stephenson, Joby Talbot and Roderick Williams.

A St. Louis Christmas tradition for young and old alike featuring the St. Louis Archdiocesan Choirs and Orchestra!

Welcomed by Favazza’s Restaurant and Michael Bavlsik & Kathleen Skelly

The Aeolians of Oakwood University was originally organized in 1946 by the late Dr. Eva B. Dykes. Since its inception, the choir has traveled widely, touching the hearts of both young and old with their inspirational singing. Subsequent conductors include: Mrs. Joni Pierre-Louis, Mr. Harold Anthony, Dr. Jon Robertson, Dr. Alma M. Blackmon, Dr. John Dennison, Dr. Ricky Little (a former Aeolian), Dr. Eurydice Osterman, Michele Cleveland, Lloyd Mallory, Dr. Julie Moore, Norman Crarey, Dr. Wayne Bucknor (a former Aeolian), Jason Max Ferdinand also a former Aeolian and presently Jeremy Jordan.

Aeolian performances present a repertoire of choral music which ranges from the Baroque era to the twenty-first century. They have become an authoritative exponent of Negro spirituals and Work songs which express the yearnings of their forefathers to be free.

The King’s Singers have represented the gold standard in a cappella singing on the world’s greatest stages for over fifty years. They are renowned for their unrivalled technique, versatility and skill in performance, and for their consummate musicianship, drawing both on the group’s rich heritage and its pioneering spirit to create an extraordinary wealth of original works and unique collaborations.

What has always distinguished the group is their comfort in an unprecedented range of styles and genres, pushing the boundaries of their repertoire, while at the same time honouring their origins in the British choral tradition. They are known and loved around the world, and appear regularly in major cities, festivals and venues across Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia.

For the third year in a row we are thrilled to welcome Vox Una and several St. Louis are high school choirs!

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:
St. Dominic High School
Cor Jesu Academy
Visitations Academy

Tickets not required – Freewill donation taken at the door

Cantigas: Songs of Mystic Spain

Spain in the Middle Ages, like contemporary America, was a nation of diverse religions and cultures. In the thirteenth century, Alfonso X the Wise (1221-1284) called himself “King of the Three Religions”, and welcomed Jewish, Christian, and Muslim musicians, artists, and thinkers to his multi-ethnic court. The concert program is an attempt to recreate the unique musical, poetic, and spiritual climate of Iberia in the thirteenth century. Using King Alfonso’s magnificent collection of songs to the Virgin Mary as its central element, the program weaves Jewish and Islamic elements around the Christian songs. The performers, all recognized experts in their fields of medieval and/or Andalusian music, come, like the musicians at Alfonso’s court, from the different musical and religious traditions that made up the court orchestra of the Wise King.

The Boston Camerata occupies a unique place in the densely populated universe of European and American early music ensembles. Camerata’s distinguished rank stems partly from its longevity: founded in 1954, when the field of endeavor was in its infancy, as an adjunct to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts’ musical instruments collection, Camerata is now one of the longest-lived groups to be vigorously functioning up to the present day.