A Community of Voices

Upcoming Programs

Singing for Seniors

Singing festival for Senior Choirs and Individuals

November 14, 10:30 am

Foulkeways at Gwynedd
1120 Meetinghouse Rd, Gwynedd, PA

Join us for our holiday concert:

Annual Festival of Christmas Music

A revival of Thomas Lloyd’s popular cantata
As Well for the Poore as the Peere

For Christmas, we’ll perform Thomas Lloyd’s cantata As Well for the Poore as the Peere, which reimagines the medieval English tradition of the rich and poor celebrating together for the holiday. We’ll also share some traditional music of the season, audience sing-along carols, and a candle-lit Silent Night.

Saturday, December 14 at 7:30pm
Sunday, December 15 at 4:00pm

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, Doylestown
with the Fairmount Brass Quintet
the Cantus Singers of the Princeton Boychoir,
Chaequan Anderson, director
and Timothy Urban, hurdy-gurdy (mechanical violin)

As Well for the Poore as the Peere!  is a suite of English carols sharing the common theme of the rich and poor coming together to celebrate the humble origins of the Christ-child. The royal sound of the brass is contrasted with the folk-based origins of the mechanical violin (hurdy-gurdy).

Upcoming Concerts

Our annual choral-orchestral concert:
Carl Orff - Carmina Burana
Roxanna Panufnik - Love Abide
Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 4:00pm
Council Rock North High School Auditorium, Newtown
with the Council Rock North and South combined choirs
Heather Brewer and Corey Axler, directors
Kayla Harriott, soprano
Brian Major, baritone
Symphony in C


Our season finale:
Leonard Bernstein - From Broadway to Lincoln Center

Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 4:00pm
Lenape Middle School, Doylestown 
with special guest soloist Elizabeth Shammash, soprano
and our 2025 Voices of the Future winners

Click on image above
for our season brochure

Our Choir

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Audition for the choir

We are now planning auditions for the first two Tuesdays in September with openings in all parts! Click “read more” below to find out more about membership and apply for an audition time. read more…

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Audio and video clips

Hear what we sound like in a wide variety of musical styles. For audio and video clips of Choral Society performances, click here...

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Repertoire and collaborations

Innovative programming, major works, collaborations with choirs all over the world: here are complete lists of repertoire and partners since 2000. read more…

Our volunteer leadership

Meet our Board of Directors and Choir Council who keep us going and make sure ‘the trains run on time’ (Choir President Susan McDonnell and recent Board Chair Amy Schmidt pictured above) read more...

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Our staff

Our professional musical staff includes Artistic Director Thomas Lloyd, Assistant Conductor Susan Johnson, accompanist Tim Harrell, and a quartet of section leaders. read more...

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Our history and mission

Read about how our choir started in 1973 and how our mission has carried us forward since then! read more…

Outreach to Our Extended Family

Singing for Seniors

Since 2005, the Choral Society’s Singing for Seniors program has held two festivals annually. Since the first festival, over 3,000 seniors have participated. Our next festival will take place on Thursday, November 14, 2024 from 10:30-2:00 at Foulkeways, 1120 Meetinghouse Rd, Gwynedd, PA 19436. These workshops are open to both individuals and senior choirs of any kind!

Voices of the Future

Master Teacher Suzanne DuPlantis with 2023 Voices of the Future finalists and event sponsors Alice and Bob Vernon.

Our 7th annual Voices of the Future finals master class will take place at the James Lorah Memorial Home in Doylestown on Saturday, April 19, 2025 with Elizabeth Shammash as our master teacher.

Our Music: shared resources for learning

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A History of the African-American Spiritual

An extended multi-media website on the history of the African American Spiritual. read more…

A listener’s guide to
Cesar Franck’s
The Beatitudes

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Elgar’s The Apostles

A multi-media walk through the unique history of both the music and the composer of this late-Romantic masterwork. read more…

A listener’s guide to the Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil

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Berlioz Requiem

A podcast with musical excerpts comparing Berlioz' setting of the requiem texts those of Mozart and Verdi. read more…

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J. S. Bach: Mass in B Minor

An introduction to what Bach saw as the summa of his life’s work. read more…

St. Matthew Passion

An 8-part video introduction to this iconic work. read more…

 
 

Your Support

 

Your gift makes a difference!

Your contribution will help assure that the Choral Society can continue to play a pivotal role in the artistic vitality of Bucks County, bringing together outstanding professional and avocational musicians in performances of great music from across the stylistic spectrum (and without the commute time or expense to New York or Philly!) read more…