Pacific Chorale is internationally recognized for exceptional artistic expression, stimulating American-focused programming, and influential education programs. Under the inspired guidance of Artistic Director John Alexander, Pacific Chorale has infused an Old World art form with California’s hallmark innovation and cultural independence.

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Recent press: "...those looking for spiritual transport could find it in the life-affirming beauty of John Alexander’s Pacific Chorale. They were glorious, managing tricky choruses... with breathtaking agility and poise." [read more]

"For many years now, the Pacific Chorale has been operating at peak form. The virtues one expects from choral performance – unity, clarity, balance – have been artfully drilled into place by the Chorale's leader John Alexander. Add to that stylistic flexibility and insightful programming. It's a remarkable ensemble, capable of doing so much." [read more]

"The Pacific Chorale is a terrific group. John Alexander, for 36 years its leader, has turned it into a luxury model – super polished, richly blended, smooth riding. One hardly notices the road when enveloped by its sound. The sound is just there, seemingly exactly as it should be." [read more]

"[Alexander] conducted with an incisive hand throughout, pacing with assurance and digging into [the work's] meat. The chorale sang magnificently, richly voiced, polished and secure..." [read more]

"...longtime artistic director John Alexander displayed the chorale’s stunning range, its command of colors and dynamics, its textual sensitivity, its vocal power and the potency of its quiet singing.... With the sterling and immaculate collaboration of the Pacific Symphony, the total performance was a model of stylishness." — Daniel Cariaga, Los Angeles Times

• 2010-2011 Season Announced!

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  Pacific Chorale's Choral Festival
  Presented by The Shanbrom Family Foundation
  August 15, 2010, 5:00 p.m.
  Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
  Pacific Chorale's Festival Chorus
  Craig S. Williams, organ
  John Alexander, conducting

  Members of the choral community join Pacific Chorale in this annual, free event, featuring great choral works by Mozart, Bach, Bruckner, Vaughan Williams and Fauré.
  
  Part of the Orange County Performing Arts Center's Free at the Center.

  The Mystic Song
  November 7, 2010
  5:30 p.m., preview at 4:30 p.m.
  Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
  Pacific Chorale
  Pacific Symphony
  John Alexander, conducting

  Songs of spiritual transcendence by Gustav Holst, Francis Poulenc and Florent Schmitt.

  Christmas with the John Alexander Singers
  December 3 and 4, 2010, 8:00 p.m.
  St. Mark Presbyterian Church, Newport Beach
  John Alexander Singers
  John Alexander, conducting

  Music for the Christmas season at its most beautiful and intimate, performed by Pacific Chorale's professional chamber choir.

  Tis the Season!
  December 19, 2010, 5:30 p.m.
  December 20, 2010, 8:00 p.m.
  Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
  Pacific Chorale
  Southern California Children's Concert Chorus
  Members of Pacific Symphony
  Lori Loftus, organ
  John Alexander, conducting

  Pacific Chorale's annual holiday concert, a Southern California favorite for fifteen years!

  Daughter of Light
  April 17, 2011
  5:30 p.m., preview at 4:30 p.m.
  Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
  Pacific Chorale
  John Alexander Singers
  Pacific Symphony
  Zanaida Robles, soprano
  James Martin Schaefer, baritone
  John Alexander, conducting

  The Southern California premiere of David Lang's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Little Match Girl Passion, paired with the Fauré Requiem.

  A Poet's Voice
  May 22, 2011
  5:30 p.m., preview at 4:30 p.m.
  Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall
  Pacific Chorale
  Mindy Ball, harp
  David Clemensen, piano
  John Alexander, conducting

  The men and women of the Chorale get equal chances to shine in poetry settings by Vaughan Williams, Brahms, Schubert, Bruckner, and Weber, closing with Randall Thompson's Frostiana.

  Download our season brochure!