Handel Choir of Baltimore

 

 

Handel Choir of Baltimore is a critically acclaimed choral ensemble that presents yearly performances of Handel’s Messiah with the Handel Period Instrument Orchestra, as well as other major choral and choral-orchestral works. Our 90th season showcases a wide range of music and performances throughout the Baltimore Metropolitan Area.

Baroque & Beyond

2024 ~ 2025

Welcome to the choir’s 90th season!

Founded in 1935, the choir has brought exceptional “Baroque and Beyond” choral music to Baltimore for nine solid decades.

Our celebratory 90th season will be among the most exciting we’ve offered. In addition to our annual Messiah with period instruments, in March we’re bringing you a program centered around the Brahms Liebeslieder, including works by Clara Schumann and others. And in May we’ll offer Beethoven’s magnificent Missa Solemnis, a triumphant, rarely heard masterpiece, which we’ll perform with a full period orchestra at the Baltimore Basilica: the largest period ensemble Baltimore will have ever seen.

We are proud as well to be singing once again this December with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, in two performances of Vivaldi’s Gloria and part of the Bach Christmas Oratorio.

Season tickets for 2024-25 are available now at a discount of up to 20% from individual ticket pricing. We look forward to seeing you at each of our concerts this coming year.

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Handel’s Messiah: December 14 & 15, 2024

7:30pm at Grace United Methodist Church, Homeland (Saturday)
3:00pm at Church of the Resurrection, Timonium (Sunday)

Brahms’s Liebeslieder: March 8, 2025

7:30pm at Second Presbyterian Church, Guilford

Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis: May 17, 2025

3:00pm at the Baltimore Basilica

Period-Perfect Messiah

 

 

 

Saturday, December 14, 2024
7:30 PM EST
Grace United Methodist Church
5407 N Charles St
Baltimore 21210

Sunday, December 15, 2024 
3:00 PM EST
Church of the Resurrection
11525 Greenspring Ave 
Timonium, MD 21093

Brahms’s Liebeslieder

 

 

Saturday, March 8, 2025
7:30 PM EST
Second Presbyterian Church
4200 St Paul St
Baltimore, MD 21218

Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis

 

 

Saturday, May 17, 2025
3:00 PM EST
Baltimore Basilica
409 Cathedral St
Baltimore, MD 21201

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Audition

Audition for Handel Choir’s 2024-2025 season

Next Season’s Chorister Auditions
To be announced

Soloists Auditions
Soloists Sign up information here
Contact: info@handelchoir.org

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Your gift supports a great Baltimore cultural tradition: more than 90 years of community-based choral and choral-orchestral music. Your contribution is crucial and deeply appreciated.

Sponsors

Handel Choir thanks Preston and Nancy Athey for their sustaining support. Our 2024-2025 season is supported in part by grants from the organizations pictured.

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