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03/18/2026

The Grammy Award winning members of the Chicago Symphony Chorus welcomes you back to Symphony Center this Thursday, March 19th, Friday, March 20th and Saturday, March 21st, to attend our first concerts of the 2026 season to feature the Chicago Symphony Chorus as they perform some of Verdi's Great Opera Choruses, led by Maestro Ricardo Muti, and prepared by Chorus director Donald Palumbo!

We will be joined on stage by a few incredible soloists and of course,, our terrific colleagues of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. You won't want to miss these amazing performances, led by arguably, the worlds foremost authority of Giuseppe Verdi's music. There will be nightly pre-concert talks as well, so order your tickets online at CSO.org or call and/or stop by the box office today to pick up you tickets to these sure to be amazing concerts! We hope to see you in the audience for one of these performances.

12/29/2025

We wish to thank the well over ten thousand concert goers who attended any of our seven Chicago Symphony Chorus and members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Merry, Merry Chicago Holiday concerts performed between December 19th through the 23rd, 2025!

These fun and beautiful concerts were nearly all sold out and brought much happiness and joy to all in attendance. The music performed was focused on bringing the audience together through music and also in sharing the spirit of the Christmas season by bringing Peace, Joy, Hope and Love to all the people in Orchestra Hall, in the City of Chicago and throughout the world.

We, the members of the Chicago Symphony Chorus would like to wish everyone a Happy, Healthy and Music filled New Year of 2026.
We hope to see you at one of our upcoming CSC or CSO concerts in 2026 and thank you again for your patronage and for following this page and group!

Warm Regards, Chicago Symphony Chorus

11/08/2025

Fall greetings CSC colleagues, music lovers, concert goers, friends and fans of the Grammy Award winning Chicago Symphony Chorus!

The Chorus will be opening it's 68th season on Thursday evening, November 20th through the 23rd on stage at Symphony Center! We will be performing Mozart's Requiem along with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted under Maestro Manfred Honeck.

This is sure to be a wonderful concert and a unique setting of the Requiem, as it will have several Gregorian Chant passages interspersed throughout Mozart's score! Go online today to cso.org to order your tickets. We look forward to seeing you at one of these four concerts and we hope that you will stay after to greet singers following the concert in the Rotunda! 🎶🎵

06/18/2025

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association (CSOA) has announced that distinguished choral director and educator Donald Palumbo has been selected as the next Chorus Director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus.

03/12/2025

We, the members of the Chicago Symphony Chorus are thrilled to be back on stage this week, March 13th, 14th and 15th at Symphony Center to perform Haydn's deeply inspired and moving "Mass In Time Of War". This is a piece that has never before been performed by either the Chicago Symphony Orchestra or Chorus, so you don't want to miss these premier concerts!

As we continue our search for a permanent and new Chorus Director, the Chorus for this work was prepared by Donald Nally, and we've never sounded better. The four soloists are equally as outstanding! Conductor, Maestro Manfred Honeck leads this work, along with Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 and the eloquent Larghetto by MacMillan..Tickets to these concerts are going quickly, so order your ticket(s) today! Looking forward to seeing many of your faces out in the audience this weekend.

12/18/2024

Tonight, Wednesday, December 18th is the opening night of Merry, Merry Chicago, the spectacular holiday concerts performed by
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at Symphony Center in Chicago!

We will perform 6 concerts through December 23rd. Get your tickets now before they are all gone because these performances are selling out quickly! Looking forward to seeing many of your faces in the audience at Orchestra Hall during the next 6 days! 🎶🎵

12/18/2024

11/11/2024

As the holidays quickly approach, the Chicago Symphony Chorus would like to invite you to our upcoming Merry, Merry Chicago Holiday performances which start December 18th and run through December 23rd!

Don't miss purchasing your tickets early to these fun, entertaining and beautiful Cristmas shows that bring joy to the entire family! We hope to see your smiling faces in the audience this coming December, 2024!

The key to programming a successful holiday choral concert starts with selecting repertoire that ideally strikes a balance between comfortingly familiar and engagingly exotic.

10/09/2024

The Chicago Symphony Chorus is excited to be making it's first appearance of the 2024-2025 season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra next week on Thursday, October 17th, Friday, October, 18th and Saturday, October 19th at Symphony Center.

We will be performing two works, including Mozart's Mass in C Major (Coronation), and Beethoven's Elegiac Song (Elegy), under the baton of British maestro, Nicholas Kraemer!

The first half of these concerts will also include Suite 2 from Handel's Water Music along with other incidental pieces by Handel. So, don't miss out on these magnificent concerts before they sell out! Tickets are going fast.

Also, don't forget to get your tickets early for our upcoming December Holiday concerts, Merry, Merry Chicago, December 18th through the 23rd! There's no place like Orchestra Hall for the holidays. 🎵🎶