Stanford Chamber Chorale

The Stanford Chamber Chorale is the Stanford Department of Music's most select choir, comprising 26 students drawn from both graduate and undergraduate populations at Stanford University. Hailing from across the United States and around the world, these singers represent a variety of academic disciplines and degree programs. As members of the Chamber Chorale, these Stanford students meet a demanding schedule of performing, touring, and recording while maintaining their rigorous academic programs. Over the years, the Chorale has toured in the United States, Japan, China, England, Wales, Scotland, Austria, Germany, Israel, Italy, and France, and has appeared in a notable list of venues including the National Gallery of Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the Berlin Philharmonie; the great British cathedrals in Ely, Lincoln, Llandaff (Cardiff), Salisbury, Wells, and York; at the renowned parish churches Romsey Abbey and St. Mary Redcliffe (Bristol); and at Trinity College Chapel (Cambridge), New College Chapel (Oxford), Magdalen College Chapel (Oxford), Rikkyo University Chapel (Japan), Hakodate Geijutsu Hall (Japan), Kitahiroshi-ma-shi Geijutsu Bunka Hall (Japan), the Great Hall of the People (Beijing), the Shanghai Oriental Art Centre, the Shanghai Concert Hall, and Benaroya Music Center (Seattle). The ensemble has also appeared on BBC Radio, the National Television of Austria, and the Armed Forces Television Network.

The Chorale has performed collaboratively with some of the most renowned performing organizations in the world, including England's Tallis Scholars; the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Choir of Royal Holloway, University of London; and the Joyful Company of Singers, as well as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kammerchor der Universität der Künste Berlin, the St. Hedwig Domchor (Berlin), the Kammerchor der Universität Wien (Vienna), the Kronos Quartet, and master flamenco guitarist Paco Peña. Dedicated to the performance of literature best suited to the small choral ensemble, the Chamber Chorale has had the honor of receiving works from renowned composers Randall Thompson, Kirke Mechem, Howard Helvey, Takeo Kudo, Jiri Laburda, and Paul Crabtree.

Through its recordings and tours, the Chorale continues to gain recognition in the international choral community. Dr. John Bertalot, Choirmaster Emeritus at England's Blackburn Cathedral, praised the Chorale's performance on its CD, Voices of Christmas, as "a tour de force of choral technique [that] gives me unbounded delight." The Chorale's recent past and future touring activities (2001: Japan, 2002: Pacific Northwest and Canada, 2003: England and Wales, 2004: Hawai'i, 2005: Germany and Austria, 2006: Southern California, 2007: Seattle and England, 2008: China, 2009: Hawai'i, 2010: Washington, D.C., 2011: Japan, 2012: UK) continue to heighten the visibility of both the ensemble and Stanford University's commitment to music performance and the arts.

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