Santa Barbara Master Chorale
Your community choir since 1984. All singers are welcome to audition.
We are excited to announce our new Artistic Director, David Torres, who leads our Chorale as we continue our tradition of performing a variety of major choral masterpieces and lighter choral music throughout the year. Rehearsals are generally held on Tuesday evenings at First Presbyterian Church, 21 East Constance (corner of State Street) in Santa Barbara. If you’d like to join, please email sbmas
06/28/2024
Enjoy a memory from our concert from last April....
✂️ Song Of My Heart ( SBMC 4/2024) 60 seconds · Clipped by John Fernandez · Original video "I Will Rise -- Music of Resilience April 2024" by Santa Barbara Master Chorale
04/20/2024
“The [Santa Barbara] Master Chorale, founded in 1985 and under the directorship of David Lozano Torres since 2022, presented an intriguing and versatile hour-long program under the title I Will Rise, Music of Resilience. The first half dealt with the implied programmatic theme in a looser way and focused on American music — from the Steve Parsons–arrangement of the timeless folk song “Shenandoah” to Leonard Bernstein’s “Make Our Garden Grow,” from Candide (featuring beautiful soloist work by guests Morgan and Lindsay Parker).
Greater emotional and musical depths arrived in the second half, alluding to the mythic tragedy of Beethoven’s deafness. A centerpiece of the concert came in the form of Jake Runestad’s 2018’s piece “A Silence Haunts Me,” a setting of an infamous letter of despair and suicidal thoughts by a late twenty-something Beethoven, upon learning of his debilitating condition. A tense modern tonal language is laced with fleeting quotations of Beethoven’s music to poignant but, yes, ultimately resilient ends.
Other points of interest, including Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds’ moving “Trinity Te Deum” and a rousing finale of Beethoven’s “Hallelujah” — from his “Christ on the Mount of Olives.” This lesser-known but exultant “other Hallelujah chorus” succeeded in bringing the concert and season to a fulfilling, happy ending.”
— By Josef Woodard, ON The Beat, from the SB Independent, 4/19/24
10/30/2023
YOU'RE INVITED to our 2023 FALL CONCERT!
Dates: Saturday, November 11, 7:30 PM and Sunday November 12, 3:00 PM.
Location: First United Methodist Church, corner of Anapamu and Garden Streets, Santa Barbara, CA
Tickets: General Admission $22, Senior/Disabled $20, College Student with ID $12, Child K-12 FREE.
Available at Chaucer's Bookstore, online at www.sbmasterchorale.org, or at the door.
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04/18/2023
John Rutter's magical and amazing Requiem will send us on an uplifting journey toward life, hope, and peace. In addition to Rutter's Requiem (for soprano soloist, mixed chorus, and small orchestra), the program will feature works by Dan Forrest, Elaine Hagenberg, and several more.
Performances will be the Friday evening and Saturday afternoon preceding Mother's Day Sunday. See www.sbmasterchorale.org for more information and tickets.
01/25/2023
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11/27/2022
We are so excited to invite you to our Holiday Lights Concert and Sing-Along on Sunday, December 11th! Come and celebrate the season with us!
Great News!! SB Master Chorale rehearsals will be restarting soon for an exciting 2022-2023 season with our new artistic director, David Torres!!
JOIN US for rehearsals beginning Tuesday, September 6, 2022. They will be held from 7:15 to 9:15 p.m. in the Chapel at First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance Ave (corner of State St). We will be preparing Haydn's masterful work: The Creation as well as some music for the holiday season.
SING WITH US! New singers are invited. Auditions will be held during and after our first few rehearsals. You'll find more information on our Web site: www.sbmasterchorale.org.
We look forward to seeing you and of course to singing again!
Sooooo beautiful!!
06/18/2022
Practice your reading skills, folks... We'll be singing together again soon!
05/19/2022
Wonderful perspective!
An alto's-eye view of choral music Often, the alto line is magical, just below consciousness. The alto line is texture, changing light, tension, weather.
05/08/2022
Any opera lovers out there???
BIRD SONG OPERA ShakeUp Music recomposed the Magic Flute "Papageno/Papagena" Duet into a colorful Mozart bird aria. Listen to an audiovisual Twitterstorm performed by our fe...
09/27/2021
SB Master Chorale's 1st chance to sing together in person since March 2020! A wonderful day at Goleta Beach with a chance to visit in the fresh air and make some music!
09/02/2021
Mikis Theodorakis was the composer of the wonderful "Canto General," which we performed as the West Coast premier in 1995 and again 4 more times since then. The piece, written to the poetry of Pablo Neruda, is magnificent! He was an interesting and controversial person.
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/702716101/greek-composer-and-politician-mikis-theodorakis-has-died-at-the-age-of-96
Greek Composer And Politician Mikis Theodorakis Has Died At The Age Of 96 Greek composer and politician Mikis Theodorakis has died. He was 96 years old. His music for Zorba the Greek was full of joy — but his own story was much more complicated.
08/26/2021
07/02/2021
Santa Barbara Master Chorale is very pleased to present this 4th of July celebration in song. https://youtu.be/w02TFvCdYBg
4th of July 2021 Musical Celebration Happy Fourth of July! The Santa Barbara Master Chorale is pleased to present this celebration in song of our nation’s Independence Day.
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Our Story
We’ve been your area community choir since 1984. Our Artistic and Music Director Dr. Steve Hodson and Associate Director Erin Bonski-Evans direct the choir in several major choral and lighter works each year. Nonprofit. See our website (www.sbmasterchorale.org) for more information on upcoming concerts as well as general information about our choir.
All singers are welcome to audition. Rehearsals are generally held on Tuesday evenings at First Presbyterian Church, 21 East Constance (corner of State Street) in Santa Barbara. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we are still singing! We have produced our first Virtual Choir Project and are currently working on a set of songs for the holiday season, which will be published in early December. All singing is done safely from our homes. If you’d like to join, please email [email protected] or contact us from our website: https://www.sbmasterchorale.org/contact-us.html
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21 E Constance Avenue, Corner Of State Street
Santa Barbara, CA
93105
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Santa Barbara Choral Society
1330 State Street Suite 202
Santa Barbara, 93101
The Santa Barbara Choral Society is a nonprofit community-based music organization founded in 1948.