Lexington

Chamber Chorale

Thank you for celebrating our 32nd season with us.

The 2024-2025 “Power of Singing” Season begins October 13, 2024!

Announcing - 2024-2025 Season:
The Power of Singing

The Lexington Chamber Chorale

Performing Hallelujah from Gospel Mass

About Us

The Lexington Chamber Chorale brings a rich and unique choral repertoire to Central Kentucky audiences. Since its humble beginning as the Sine Nomine Singers, the Chorale has enjoyed celebrating the art of choral singing through performing interesting and challenging pieces of music. Chamber Chorale concerts also enrich our cultural community through creative collaborations with guest artists and musicians. The passion for singing and the continued pursuit of musical excellence inspire the singers to present quality programs that touch both mind and spirit.

A Chamber Chorale with a Passion for Singing

Upcoming Concerts

The Power of Singing: Global and Political

The Power of community singing is often used for political purposes. Music can be a powerful form of “soft power,” a way of influencing others that does not rely on force or might.

Our repertoire will include: Lorena, a popular song with Confederate and Union soldiers during the Civil War, Put vejini, a Latvian folk song sung during the Singing Revolution in Latvia, and We Shall Overcome, from the U.S. Civil Rights movement.

The Power of Singing: Festive Holidays

Come welcome the holiday season as we perform new and familiar tunes celebrating Christmas and Hanukkah. Featuring an audience sing-along, this is the perfect concert to get your entire family in the holiday spirit. Our repertoire will include O Magnum Mysterium (O Great Mystery), The Twelve Days of Christmas and Still, Still, Still (Austrian carol).

The Power of Singing: Poetry and Music

Many choral composers are inspired to write vocal music that is driven by the text with the music written to be supportive of it. Vocal music is often said to contain “word painting” or to musically “relay the text.”

Our repertoire will include poems by William Shakespeare, Francesco Petrarca, Christina Rosetti and e.e.cummings. Kentucky Poet Laureate George Ella Lyon will read from her works.

The Power of Singing: Celebrating Lexington

As the Lexington Chamber Chorale, we are delighted to help the city of Lexington celebrate its 250th birthday. Our repertoire will include music that represents our city’s history, the beautiful bluegrass landscape and our equine culture. The Gift to be Simple, a traditional Shaker tune, and works by Kentuckians John Jacobs and Jean Ritchie will be featured.