Central Ohio's Premier All-Professional Chamber Choir!
Celebrated as central Ohio’s premier all-professional chamber choir, LancasterChorale has established its role as a vital force in choral music by performing challenging repertoire drawn from the rich treasury of the past, commissioning new works to inspire the American public to more fully understand its present, and supporting educational programming with young singers to promote the future of the choral arts.
Engaging the region’s leading professional vocal artists, LancasterChorale garners high praise for its beauty of tone, musical integrity, remarkable blend, and exceptional commitment to elegant text phrasing. Under the direction of nationally recognized composer Stephen Caracciolo, the ensemble performs an astonishingly wide range of choral literature including plainchant, Renaissance and Baroque motets, German-Romantic part songs, French chansons, the sacred literature of the English and Russian churches, opera choruses, carols of every variety, American folk songs and spirituals, and works by living composers. LancasterChorale performs in cities throughout Ohio and appears periodically with ProMusica Chamber Orchestra and the Lancaster Festival Orchestra.
Performances
SEASON 38
MAGNIFICAT
Bach’s Masterpiece and
Handel’s Coronation Anthems Nos. 1, 2, & 3
with Chamber Orchestra!
Sunday, October 22, 2023. 4:00 p.m.
The Basilica of Saint Mary of the Assumption
Lancaster, Ohio
Sunday, October 29, 2023. 4:00 p.m.
Saint Mary Mother of God | German Village
Columbus, Ohio
AT THE MANGER
Motets, Carols, and
Tender Lullabies for Christmas
Sunday, November 26, 2023. 4:00 p.m.
The Basilica of Saint Mary of the Assumption
Lancaster, Ohio
Sunday, December 10, 2023. 4:00 p.m.
Saint Mary Mother of God | German Village
Columbus, Ohio
Joshua Brodbeck, guest organist
Brad Walsh, guest oboist
LOVE SONGS FOR SPRING
Featuring Johannes Brahms’ beloved Liebeslieder Waltzes!
Sunday, April 21, 2024. 4:00 p.m.
The Basilica of Saint Mary of the Assumption
Lancaster, OH
Sunday, April 28, 2024. 4:00 p.m.
Saint Mary Mother of God | German Village
Columbus, Ohio
Orlando Alonso and Orlay Alonso
guest pianists
SEASON SUBSCRIPTION
Three-Concert Season Subscription Tickets at Discounted Price
MAGNIFICAT
Bach’s Masterpiece and Handel’s Coronation Anthems Nos. 1, 2, & 3 with Chamber Orchestra!
Sunday, October 22, 2023. 4:00 p.m.
The Basilica of Saint Mary of the Assumption
Lancaster, Ohio
or
Sunday, October 29, 2023. 4:00 p.m.
Saint Mary Mother of God | German Village
Columbus, Ohio
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AT THE MANGER
Motets, Carols, and Tender Lullabies for Christmas
Sunday, November 26, 2023. 4:00 p.m.
The Basilica of Saint Mary of the Assumption
Lancaster, Ohio
or
Sunday, December 10, 2023. 4:00 p.m.
Saint Mary Mother of God | German Village
Columbus, Ohio
Joshua Brodbeck, guest organist
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LOVE SONGS FOR SPRING
Featuring Johannes Brahms’ beloved Liebeslieder Waltzes!
Sunday, April 21, 2024. 4:00 p.m.
The Basilica of Saint Mary of the Assumption
Lancaster, OH
or
Sunday, April 28, 2024. 4:00 p.m.
Saint Mary Mother of God | German Village
Columbus, Ohio
Orlando Alonso and Orlay Alonso, guest pianists
Education & Outreach
LancasterChorale, Central Ohio’s premier professional chamber choir, is dedicated to establishing and maintaining strong channels of communication with church choirs, school choirs, civic choral organizations and their directors to provide learning opportunities that energizes their work with volunteers within the community. This education outreach program also provides timely information on upcoming LancasterChorale performances and insights on how the programs are prepared in rehearsals.
LancasterChorale supports Central Ohio church and community choir directors by offering:
Invitations to observe selected LancasterChorale rehearsals (free of charge) to note rehearsal techniques, learn new literature, and speak directly with our professional artists
Professional choral consulting with our Artistic Director, Dr. Stephen Caracciolo: a conductor, singer, and composer whose published works have been performed and recorded extensively throughout the U.S.
Joint programming with LancasterChorale by way of hymn festivals and community sing-a-longs
Reduced-priced admission to LancasterChorale performances to selected volunteer choirs on a rotating basis within the community.
Area church choirs, community choruses, and LancasterChorale are together part of a world-wide treasury of choral traditions, the praises of which have been eloquently phrased by singer, Peter Yarrow, of the famed folk music trio, Peter, Paul and Mary.
‘When people sing together, community is created. Together we rejoice, we celebrate, we mourn and we comfort each other. Through music, we reach each other’s hearts and souls. Music allows us to find a connection.’
Glowing Reviews...
Daniel Knaggs - Celebrated American Composer
I’m still feeling the impact of your amazing performance with LancasterChorale this past Sunday. I was truly blown away by the performance – by your interpretations, your musical selections, and your own compositions. Your interpretation of my ‘Ego sum panis vivus’ took my breath away — your artists brought out things that I never even imagined. I was transported during the whole performance, and I’m just so delighted with the work you are doing! What a special thing you have in LancasterChorale. Keep up the phenomenal work!
Jennifer Hambrick - The Columbus Dispatch
Two of Columbus’ finest classical music ensembles joined forces in one of the world’s best-loved musical works last night at the Southern Theatre. ProMusica Artistic Director David Danzmayr led the orchestra, LancasterChorale, and four vocal soloists in the orchestra’s first-ever performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Throughout the famous “Ode to Joy” finale of Beethoven’s symphony, LancasterChorale sang with impressive nuance of sound and with impressively clear and sonorous diction of Schiller’s German text.
Peter Tonguette - The Columbus Dispatch
Conducted with sensitivity and subtlety by artistic director Stephen Caracciolo, the ensemble opened with Johannes Brahms’ song cycle ‘Zigeunerlieder’. Following an intermission, LancasterChorale shifted to a cappella singing — and stirringly so. Highlights included Hugo Alfven’s ‘Aftonen,’ a piece evoking the stillness of dusk in its haunting sotto voce passages. Also lovely was John Clements’ ‘Flower of Beauty’. The singers enunciated such ecstatic verses as “She is my slender small love, my flow’r of beauty, she” in dulcet tones. The ensemble sang each with terrific skill and intense feeling — qualities also apparent in a heavenly encore performance of ‘Danny Boy’.
Become a Patron
Become a Lancaster Chorale Patron! We invite you to support Lancaster Chorale in a most special way — by joining our list of patrons. Patrons receive printed recognition in our programs at each concert. And, because Lancaster Chorale is a non-profit performing arts organization, your gifts are tax deductible! All it takes is a check payable to “LancasterChorale”, indicate as a donation, and mail to: LancasterChorale, 109 N. Broad St. -Suite 100, Lancaster, Ohio 43130. Donations of any amount are most appreciated.
We offer these giving categories for your consideration:
Contributor……Up to $99
Friend……$100 - $249
Patron……$250 - $499
Benefactor……$500 - $749
Sustainer……$750 - $999
Composer's Club……$1,000 - $1,499
Premier Ensemble……$1,500 - $2,499
Conductor’s Circle……$2,500 - $4,999
Trocchia Chair……$5,000+
Serving a non-profit performing arts organization as a volunteer is a very rewarding experience. Working with others who share a similar passion, particularly something as central to the human experience as choral music, is all the more fulfilling as members of a project team lend their time, their expertise, and their hands to build an efficient and effective organization that enriches the entire community.
Some volunteers choose to serve in ways that draw upon their professional training and experience. Others prefer to set aside their day job skills in favor of volunteering on a project where they can work side by side with others and simply do something different and creative on their off hours. Either way of serving as a volunteer is valued, and those with whom you work to meet a new challenge or goal become new friends and colleagues.
Many people have experienced a live Lancaster Chorale performance and were delighted in the sound, the precision, and the beauty. Some have actively sought out the Artistic Director, or someone on our dedicated Board, to ask how they might help the organization sustain this lively and worthwhile part of our local and regional culture.
Volunteer
Volunteering Your Time and Talent
A small sample of the ways in which our volunteers serve LancasterChorale include:
Taking tickets at performances
Supplying video and still photography
Maintaining the choral library
Assisting with mailings
Working with others to plan and implement a successful fundraising event
Creating opportunities for young singers to partner with LancasterChorale
Offering expertise in grant writing, program editing, and radio and television promotion
Lending a hand in a pinch so the organization
can meet a goal on time and on budget
The ways to serve LancasterChorale as a volunteer are as varied as one’s creativity and time will permit. Documented in-kind contributions of professional services rendered may be claimed as a tax deduction. We urge you to contact us and let the talented members of our organization know of your interest in lending time and talent to bring fine and affordable professional choral performances to Central Ohio.