An informal, drop-in meet-and-greet designed for working artists and musicians.
This family-friendly concert, dubbed “a gift to the community, a rare moment of love and light,” includes sing-along carols and a cookie and cocoa reception.
This family-friendly concert, dubbed “a gift to the community, a rare moment of love and light,” includes sing-along carols and a cookie and cocoa reception.
This family-friendly concert, dubbed “a gift to the community, a rare moment of love and light,” includes sing-along carols and a cookie and cocoa reception.
This family-friendly concert, dubbed “a gift to the community, a rare moment of love and light,” includes sing-along carols and a cookie and cocoa reception.
This family-friendly concert, dubbed “a gift to the community, a rare moment of love and light,” includes sing-along carols and a cookie and cocoa reception.
Using Handel’s original work, Messiah. Multiplied. tells a story of struggle, transformation, and affirmation in our modern world, asking “What if ‘Messiah' is a change we can bring about together?”
Using Handel’s original work, Messiah. Multiplied. tells a story of struggle, transformation, and affirmation in our modern world, asking “What if ‘Messiah' is a change we can bring about together?”
You determine which way to go and what to hear in this musical labyrinth during First Friday Art Walk. Featuring performances by ChamberQUEER and Oratorio Chorale.
Chat with our featured soloists and other artists at this informal, drop-in meet-and-greet.
A casual, interfaith discussion of the concept of “messiah” across religions.
A multilingual and diverse production, screened in collaboration with The Hill Arts.
Sweetest in the Gale celebrates the female voice in poetry, music, and performance.
Sweetest in the Gale celebrates the female voice in poetry, music, and performance.
Meet the composer and experience this eco-inspired “blast from the past that resonates profoundly in the present.”
Meet the composer and experience this eco-inspired “blast from the past that resonates profoundly in the present.”
An informal, drop-in meet-and-greet designed for working artists and musicians.
Join visiting composer Sarah Kirkland Snider for a discussion about the craft of creating musical compositions.
Sarah Kirkland Snider joins in discussion with Annie Antonacos and Dan Sonenberg.
Join us for our annual holiday concert designed for the whole family!
Join us for our annual holiday concert designed for the whole family!
Join us for our annual holiday concert designed for the whole family!
Join us for our annual holiday concert designed for the whole family!
Join us for our annual holiday concert designed for the whole family!
Join us for our annual holiday concert designed for the whole family!
Explore the purity of sound and the luxury of silence with music that stems from and returns to stillness.
Explore the purity of sound and the luxury of silence with music that stems from and returns to stillness.
Sweetest in the Gale will pay homage to the simple joys that helped us through the pandemic.
Sweetest in the Gale will pay homage to the simple joys that helped us through the pandemic.
Oratorio Chorale and the Bowdoin College Chorus present one of the “25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2021”
Oratorio Chorale and the Bowdoin College Chorus present one of the “25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2021”
Join us for our annual holiday concert designed for the whole family!
Join us for our annual holiday concert designed for the whole family!
Join us for our annual holiday concert designed for the whole family!
Join us for our annual holiday concert designed for the whole family!
Join us for our annual holiday concert designed for the whole family!
Frank Martin: Mass for Double Choir
Emily Isaacson and Logan Gillis: Unforeseen Grace (world premiere)
Join Andrew Gould , Executive Vice President of Publishing at Roc Nation, Kevin Newbury, celebrated opera and theater director, and Dr. Emily Isaacson, conductor and arts entrepreneur, for a discussion on building a career in the performing arts.
Amazing Grace: The American Spiritual traces the history of Black spirituals from Pre-Emancipation folk singing to the Black Lives Matter movement using visual art, music, prose, and poetry.
In December 2020, the Chorale moved its annual holiday concert to Sanford Performing Arts Center (SPAC) as part of SPAC’s “Free for All” series. Members of the Chorale, Sweetest in the Gale, and Horizon Voices, along with the Portland Brass Quintet and Mo Nichols, harp, shared the celebration, which was live streamed and is now available for on-demand viewing.
A candlelight concert engaged the Tenebrae tradition to explore brightness and shadow, with works by Palestrina, Victoria, and Hildegard von Bingen to songs by Bruckner, Elgar, and Pärt. Singers moved through the vaulted spaces of churches in Brunswick and Portland to surround the audience in an interactive musical experience.
Oratorio Chorale performed Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 with 70 Chorale singers in multiple voice parts and a 13-member ensemble orchestra playing period instruments. Collaborating musicians included Scott Metcalfe, of Blue Heron; Virginia Warnken and Molly Quinn, members of TENET; and Greg Engles, director of the baroque brass quintet Dark Horse Ensemble.
