Calendar

In the grand culmination of our season, the Santa Clara Chorale premiers the oratorio Barbara Allen, by contemporary composer Scott Gendel. This new work takes the traditional folk ballad as a starting point for a wild, nearly operatic, journey that uses a huge array of musical textures to expand “Barbara Allen” into an emotional tour-de-force. Joining with tenor Brian Thorsett, the San José Chamber Orchestra, and the Santa Clara University Choirs, the Chorale embarks on a symphonic exploration of love and loss in a musical experience that brings oratorio into a new realm.
March 17, 2017 – Voices
Santa Clara University Choirs
Mission Santa Clara | 7:30pm | tickets | live stream

The Santa Clara University Concert Choir and Chamber Singers present a concert of music that features the voices of those not normally heard in society. Poetry from historically disenfranchised populations and stories of oppression and injustice feature heavily in this provocative and challenging program.

March 3 and 12, 2017 – Knights and Dragons
Santa Clara Chorale
(with The Music School on March 3)
Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church (3/3) | 7:00pm | tickets
Mission Santa Clara (3/12) | 2:00pm | tickets

Santa Clara University Choirs and local high school choirs
Mission Santa Clara | 7:30pm | free

SCU hosts a choral festival with clinics for local chamber choirs and combined repertoire in the beautiful Mission Santa Clara.

December 16, 17, and 18, 2016 – San Diego Pro Arte Voices

Scot sings with the professional San Diego based ensemble directed by Patrick Walders in three concerts of holiday repertoire.

December 9 and 12, 2016 – An Evening of Lessons and Carols
Santa Clara Chorale
Mission Santa Clara | 8:00pm (12/9) | 4:00pm (12/12) | tickets

Santa Clara University Choirs
Mission Santa Clara | 7:30pm | tickets-SOLD OUT | live stream (archive)

At Santa Clara University, the Festival of Lights performance has marked the beginning of the holiday season for many for well over a decade. With music ranging from holiday favorites to exciting new directions in repertoire, there is no better way to celebrate the start of the holiday season at Santa Clara.

November 7, 2016 – Second Annual C4 Festival
Santa Clara University Chamber Singers
University of San Diego

The SCU Chamber Singers traveled to San Diego to participate in the second annual California Catholic Collegiate Choral (C4) Festival. The Chamber Singers performed selections alone and also participated in a combined choir with other Catholic collegiate chamber choirs.

October 22, 2016 – ORFF – Carmina Burana
Santa Clara Chorale and Santa Clara University Choirs
San Jose State University Percussion Ensemble
Hans Boepple and Teresa McCollough, piano
Jose Mendiola, baritone; Andrew Metzger, tenor; Sarah Olive-McStay, soprano
Mission Santa Clara | 8:00pm | tickets

Joining with Santa Clara University in a year celebrating the arts and collaboration, the Chorale began their season with a bang. Carmina Burana, the rhapsodic masterpiece by Carl Orff, will brought together the combined choral forces of the Chorale, Santa Clara University Choirs, local high school honors singers, the San Jose State University percussion ensemble, and SCU Faculty Pianists Hans Boepple and Teresa McCollough.

August 1, 2016 – Summer Sing: Haydn Mass in a Time of War | Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem
Los Altos United Methodist Church | 7:30pm

Sponsored by Schola Cantorum, Scot leads a community sing of two masterpieces of the repertoire.

June 20-July 2, 2016 – Santa Clara Chorale on Tour: SPAIN

The chorale performs four concerts of American and Spanish repertoire across the south of Spain, including a performance in the Gothic Cathedral in Barcelona and a shared concert with the Coral de Catedra “Ramón Medina”del Liceo de Córdoba.

June 3, 2016 – Fusion: Requiem
Santa Clara University Choirs, Santa Clara University Orchestra
Mission Santa Clara | 7:30pm | tickets | live stream

The SCU Concert Choir and Chamber Singers team up with the SCU Orchestra in a wide ranging program to close out the academic year. Featuring selections from Jocelyn Hagen’s requiem, Ashes of Roses, Mozart’s requiem, Andres Solis’ requiem: XLIII, and Palestrina’s Missa pro Defunctis, the program delivers requiem repertoire from its earliest form to present day.

May 13, 2016 – Mozart Requiem and Hagen Ashes of Roses
Santa Clara Chorale, Santa Clara University Choirs
Mission Santa Clara | 8pm

In collaboration with the Santa Clara University Choir program, the Chorale pairs Mozart’s sublime masterpiece, completed after his death by his student Süssmayr, with a more modern requiem setting by the celebrated Minnesota-based composer, Jocelyn Hagen.

March 11 & 13, 2016 – Songs of Youth
Santa Clara Chorale
(3/11) St. Leo the Great Parish, San Jose | 8pm
(3/13) Mission Santa Clara | 2pm

Featuring an all ages Friday evening and Sunday afternoon show, our March concert focused on music written early in the career of composers throughout history. Included were the first choral compositions of W.A. Mozart including pieces written at age 9, 10, and 12. Also featured were some younger contemporary composers including Abbie Betinis and a joint commission by Richard Waters based on the poem Star light, Star bright with latin text by Charles Silvestri.

March 4, 2016 – Music of the People
Santa Clara University Choirs
Mission Santa Clara | 7:30pm

Music has long been a force for change in the world, a rallying cry for people, a voice to the voiceless, and an artistic expression of community and solidarity. The Santa Clara University Concert Choir and Chamber Singers present music from across many traditions and many time periods that has spoken for the people – from Folk Songs to Spirituals, Traditional music to contemporary, March will be filled with the Music of the People.

January 15, 2016 – XLIII
Andres Solis, Sandra Milena Gómez
Santa Clara University Chamber Singers, James Welch
Mission Santa Clara | 7:30pm

A World Premiere performance of a new Requiem in collaboration with the Montalvo Arts Center featuring dancer Sandra Milean Gómez, Electronic musician and composer Andres Solis, organist James Welch, and the Santa Clara University Chamber Singers. The work remembers those victims of violence in Mexico and will be paired with a variety of events that raise awareness of the violence happening in our neighboring country.

December 18 & 19, 2015 – An Evening of Readings and Carols
San Diego Pro Arte Voices
The Village Community Presbyterian Church (12/18) 7:30pm
St. Andrew’s by the Sea Episcopal Church (12/19) 7:30pm

Scot sang with the San Diego Pro Arte Voices under artistic director Patrick Walders in a beautiful holiday program of choral gems, brass, organ, and readings.

December 11 & 13, 2015 – An Evening of Lessons and Carols
Santa Clara Chorale
Mission Santa Clara | 8pm (12/11) | 4pm (12/13)

Celebrate the holiday season and the diversity of the Santa Clara community. Leaders from throughout our community offer poignant readings and meditations that are paired with familiar carols, traditional folk music, and reflective pieces. An evening that is both jubilant and complex, just like the holidays.

December 4, 2015 – Festival of Lights
Santa Clara University Choirs
Carolyn Foot, lighting design
Mission Santa Clara | 7:30pm | watch archived live stream

At Santa Clara University, the Festival of Lights performance has marked the beginning of the holiday season for many for over a decade. And this year, just as many cities celebrate the change of seasons and the lengthening of days by lighting landmarks in vast and complex displays, the Santa Clara University Choirs join with production manager and lighting designer Carolyn Foot in a program that is both about light and featuring it. With music ranging from holiday favorites to exciting new directions in repertoire, this will be a beautiful evening of light.

October, 23, 2015 – California Catholic Collegiate Choral (C4) Festival
Loyola Marymount University Consort Singers
University of San Diego Choral Scholars
University of San Francisco
Santa Clara University Chamber Singers
St. Mary’s College of California
Dr. Edward Maclary, clinician
Mission Santa Clara | 7:30pm | FREE

The chamber choirs of five California Catholic Colleges gather together to perform individual sets and three combined pieces under the direction of Edward Maclary from the University of Maryland.

October 16, 2015 – Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
Santa Clara Chorale
Mission Santa Clara | 8pm

Described by the composer as the last sins of his old age, Napoleon III characterized Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle as neither little, nor solemn, nor particularly liturgical. Rossini combines the Latin mass with the musical language of comic opera, featuring a work scored for piano and harmonium (a reed organ operated by bellows) and with extended operatic vocal solos throughout.

August 7/9, 2015 – San Diego Pro Arte Voices
Scot sings with the professional San Diego vocal ensemble directed by Patrick Walders in two performances coinciding with the San Diego Summer Choral Festival.

July 26-29, 2015 – Keep your phones out: Incorporating Technology into Choral Performance
Interest session at ECCO (California – ACDA). [Information from that presentation]

July 20, 2015 – Summer Sing: Fauré Requiem | Vivaldi Gloria
Sponsored by Schola Cantorum, Scot leads a community sing of two masterpieces of the repertoire.
Los Altos United Methodist Church | 7:30pm

June 5, 2015 – FUSION
Santa Clara University Choirs, Santa Clara University Orchestra, SCU Gospel Choir
Mission Santa Clara | 7:30pm

May 16, 2015 – Fauré Requiem and Mozart Vesperae Solennes de Confessore
Santa Clara Chorale, Santa Clara University Choirs, Symphony Silicon Valley
Mission Santa Clara | 8pm