Auditions

Auditions are open for Assabet Valley Mastersingers. See the auditions page for more information.

December 13, 2024 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: A Tuscan Christmas. Giacomo Puccini: Messa di Gloria, for soloists, chorus, and orchestra; Giacomo Puccini, "Senior" (the younger composer's great-great-grandfather): Magnificat. As is tradition, our audience will have the opportunity to raise their voices in traditional carols, accompanied by full chorus and orchestra. For more information, call 781-326-1520 or email info@dedhamchoral.org. Holy Name Church, 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury MA 02132 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

April 12, 2024 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: Light's Living Spring! Ola Gjeilo: Sunrise Mass; Elaine Hagenberg: Illuminare (setting sacred Latin, Greek, and English texts). For more information, call 781-326-1520 or email info@dedhamchoral.org. Holy Name Church, 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury MA 02132 ⓘ 🔗

December 15, 2023 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: All is Bright. Festive Christmas music for choir, brass ensemble, organ and percussion. Daniel Pinkham: Fanfares; Christmas Cantata; Jonathan Willcocks: Magnificat; Randol Alan Bass: Gloria; Will Todd: Three Jazz Carols. Plus, Sing Along Carols! Tickets: adults $35, seniors $30, student (12 and above) $20, child $5. For more information, call 781-326-1520 or email info@dedhamchoral.org. Holy Name Church, 1689 Centre St., West Roxbury MA ⓘ 🔗

April 14, 2023 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: The Classical Style: Mozart, Coronation Mass and Haydn, Te Deum. F.J. Haydn: Te Deum; W.A. Mozart: Ave verum corpus; Coronation Mass, KV 317; Sonata for organ solo and string orchestra. Tickets: $35, seniors $30, students $20, children $5 online or at door. For more information, call 781-326-1520 or email info@dedhamchoral.org. Holy Name Church, 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury MA 02132 ⓘ 🔗

December 2, 2022 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: Gloria! Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria; Jonathan Barnhart (arr.): Suite de Noels (based on Messe de Minuit pour Noel by Marc-Antoine Chapentier and including organ works by Pierre Dandrieu and Claude Balbastre). Tickets: $35 adults, $30 seniors, $20 student (12 and above), $5 children. Audience carol sing along, as well!! For more information, call 781-326-1520 or email info@dedhamchoral.org. Holy Name Church, 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury MA 02132 ⓘ 🔗

May 6, 2022 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: Bravo Beethoven! a 252nd Birthday Celebration. Ludwig van Beethoven: Mass in C Major, Opus 86; "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage"; "Moonlight" Sonata, first movement. Katrina Holden, soprano; Caroline Olsen, mezzo-soprano; Brendan Buckley, tenor; Ulysses Thomas, bass; with full orchestra, Jonathan Barnhart, director. Originally scheduled for spring 2020, Bravo Beethoven! was to celebrate the musical genius' 250th birthday, but alas! COVID intervened. Masks required by audience. Tickets: $35 adults, $30 seniors, $20 students, $5 children (5-12). For more information, call 781-326-1520 or email Info@dedhamchoral.org. Holy Name Church, 1689 Centre St., West Roxbury MA 02132 ⓘ 🔗

December 3, 2021 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: Christmas concert. James Whitbourn: Missa Carolae; Jonathan Wilcocks: Gloria; Bob Chilcott: Gloria; Carols. With Full Orchestra. For more information, call 781-326-1520 or email info@dedhamchoral.org. Holy Name Church, 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury MA 02132 ⓘ 🔗

December 6, 2019 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: Messiah (selections). G.F. Handel: Messiah (arr. W.A. Mozart). With full orchestra and soloists! For more information, call 781-326-1520 or email info@dedhamchoral.org. Holy Name Church, 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury MA 02132 ⓘ 🔗

April 7, 2019 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: Spring Concert: "Requiem for the Living". Music by Dan Forrest. First Boston Performance. For more information, call 781-326-1520 or email info@dedhamchoral.org. Holy Name Church, 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury MA 02132 ⓘ 🔗

December 7, 2018 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: Behold New Joy. Shawn Kirchner: Behold New Joy: Carols Ancient and Modern; Karl Jenkins: Ave Maria; Cecilia McDowall: A Winter’s Night (Christmas Cantata); Gaude et laetare; Bob Chilcott: Gloria; The Face of Peace. With sing-along carols, brass, organ, and percussion. For more information, call 781-326-1520 or email info@dedhamchoral.org. Holy Name Church, 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury MA 02132 ⓘ 🔗

April 29, 2018 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: Haydn & Mozart in Salzburg. Johann Michael Haydn: “St Ursula” Mass; Wolgang Amadeus Mozart: Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, KV 339. For more information, call 781-326-1520 or email info@dedhamchoral.org. NEC's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston MA 02115 ⓘ 🔗

December 1, 2017 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: A New England Nativity. John Knowles Paine: The Nativity; Randall Thompson: The Nativity According to St Luke (Excerpts). With sing-along carols. For more information, call 781-326-1520 or email info@dedhamchoral.org. Holy Name Church, 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury MA 02132 ⓘ 🔗

April 30, 2017 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: Lest We Forget. James Whitbourn: Annelies (with a libretto taken largely from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.). Tickets: $45, $35, and $25. For more information, call 781-326-1520 or email info@dedhamchoral.org. NEC's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston MA 02115 ⓘ 🔗

December 2, 2016 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: A Bach Family Christmas: The Three Johanns. Music for chorus and orchestra by three members of arguably the greatest dynasty in the history of Classical music: Johann Sebastian Bach and his two sons, Johann Christian and Johann Christoph Friedrich. Works by J.S. Bach include two Christmas cantatas (excerpts); “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”; two orchestral pieces and three organ preludes. Heinrich Christensen, organ. With opportunity for the audience to join in singing carols. For more information, call 781-326-1520 or email info@dedhamchoral.org. Holy Name Church, 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury MA 02132 ⓘ 🔗

April 3, 2016 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: Eternal Light: Music of Lauridsen & Elgar. Morten Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna; Edward Elgar: Lux Aeterna; Ola Gjeilo: Sunrise Mass (First Boston Performance). NEC’s Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston MA 02115

December 4, 2015 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: Joyeux Noel. Camille Saint-Saëns: Tollite Hostias (Christmas Oratorio); Gabriel Fauré: Il est né le divin enfant; César Franck: Gloria in excelsis Deo; Panis Angelicus; Hector Berlioz: The Flight into Egypt; Adolphe Adam: Minuit Chrétien (original “O Holy Night”); Charles Gounod: Noël and Béthléem. Holy Name Church, 1689 Centre St, West Roxbury, MA 02132

April 12, 2015 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: Celebrating 60 Years! Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2, “Hymn of Praise”, with full orchestra and soloists NEC’s Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston MA 02115 ⓘ

December 12, 2014 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: A Gaelic Christmas. Music from Ireland and Scotland by Charles Villiers Stanford, Eric Sweeney, and James MacMillan, and compositions from the Irish chamber choir Anuòa. Holy Name Church, 1689 Centre St, West Roxbury, MA 02132 ⓘ

April 27, 2014 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: F.J. Haydn: Missa in tempore belli (Mass in Time of War); W.A. Mozart: Requiem in D Minor (Sussmayr). Sonja Dutoit Tengblad, soprano; Emily Marvosh, alto; Stefan Reed, tenor; Bradford Gleim, baritone; full orchestra. NEC’s Jordan Hall, Boston MA

December 13, 2013 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: Slava! Christmas in Russia. Music by Alexander Gretchaninoff, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Dmitri Bortniansky, accompanied by an orchestra of strings, harp, celesta, and organ. The concert will also include carols in Ukraine, including “Carol of the Bells” sung in both Ukrainian and English. Holy Name Church, 1689 Centre St, West Roxbury MA 02132

April 21, 2013 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: This Sacred Ground, Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of The Battle of Gettysburg. Walt Whitman: “A Dirge for Two Veterans”, settings by Gustav Holst, Harl McDonald and Charles Wood; David Diamond: The Gettysburg Address; Ralph Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem. NEC’s Jordan Hall, Boston MA

December 7, 2012 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Dedham Choral Society [MA]: Christmas in Venice. Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of Giovanni Gabrieli Holy Name Church, West Roxbury MA

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