"Promoting choral excellence throughout Ohio."

A choir of 90 singers from 3 counties.
Directors: Steve and Simone Gall
Contact simonegall51@aol.com / 440-988-7396

The Ashtabula County Choral Music Society, founded in 1989, grew out of the longstanding Messiah Chorus and has a mission to present quality performances of significant choral works for Ashtabula County audiences, while providing singers educational and musical experiences.  The Society has grown to include three choirs and has produced over one hundred choral music events and participated in many more.

Director - Kathleen Milford
Director is a member of ACDA

The BW Women's Chorus is a long-standing offering of the Community Arts School and is open to soprano and alto singers high school age and up throughout the Greater Cleveland community including BW faculty, staff and students.

The chorus performs a wide variety of choral literature written especially for the soprano and alto voice range. This includes choral masterworks both classic and contemporary, Broadway and pop. It is helpful (though not required) to have some background in music (instrumental or vocal) and basic knowledge of music reading and pitch matching. Of paramount importance is a willing spirit and open mind—come and sing with us!

We rehearse Tuesdays from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. on Baldwin Wallace University's campus. New members accepted at the start of Fall and Spring semester. See our page for more details

Capriccio Columbus is an adult choir of 75 accomplished vocalists, delighting audiences with a vast array of music sung in beautiful, acoustically rich venues. Whether your taste runs toward classics, jazz, sacred works or the Great American Songbook, a Capriccio Columbus concert will remind you why you love music. Founded in 2007, Capriccio has presented its own full seasons and performed in collaboration with the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the Central Ohio Symphony, and the Ohio State University Orchestra, Chorale and Symphonic Choir.

www.capricciocolumbus.org
Artistic Director: Larry Griffin
Director is a member of ACDA

The Clermont Chorale is a community choir committed to celebrating timeless and innovative choral music in Clermont County and the surrounding areas.  A non-profit organization, CFC is the only community choir in the Clermont County area. Members come from the entire Greater Cincinnati area.  We accept singers from high school age and older without audition.

CFC was founded in January 2006 and has performed with the Clermont Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lebanon Symphony & Chorus, and the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, and the Cincinnati Choral Society, as well as opening the 2014 May Festival, headlining at Cincinnati's Summerfair, drawing large crowds at the Miami Township Summer Concert Series, and singing Beatles arrangements at Milford's Frontier Days.
For more information, Like us on Facebook, go to www.clermontfestivalchorale.org, or email directors Tim and Tracy Carpenter at tntcarp@clermontfestivalchorale.org.

Columbus Chamber Singers, Columbus
A small, all volunteer, mixed chorus, performing a varied repertoire of classical, sacred, secular and popular music.  Season usually consists of formal concerts that are free to the public, along with community service engagements at public libraries and retirement homes.

Director:  Anne Todt

Columbus Children’s Choir
For Kindergarten through 12th grade, Columbus Children’s Choir is the premier organization for children’s choral education in Central Ohio. We provide talented singers the opportunity to explore music and expand their musical skills to the highest level of their interest and ability.

The Columbus Symphony Chorus
The Columbus Symphony Chorus, founded in 1961, performs major works from Bach to Mahler and beyond. Past performances have included the requiems of Brahms, Verdi, Fauré, Mozart, and Duruflé; the Bach B Minor Mass; Mozart’s Grand Mass in C Minor and Coronation Mass; Haydn’s Lord Nelson and Harmonie Mass; works by Rossini, Orff, Poulenc, Stravinsky, Walton, Britten, Prokofiev, and Augusta Read Thomas; and concert performances of operas.  For information on auditions, please see the chorus website.

Director: Ronald J. Jenkins
Director is a member of ACDA

The Columbus Women's Chorus
CWC is a feminist chorus that celebrates life through the power of music.  We perform music created and inspired by the lives and experiences of women from all walks of life.

Directors: Jennifer Bell
Email: admin@colswomenschorus.org
The director is a member of ACDA

Dayton Celebration Chorus
The Dayton Celebration Chorus offers adults who enjoy singing the opportunity to enhance their vocal skills together with music lovers from across the Miami Valley. In keeping with the University of Dayton’s tradition of providing noncredit offerings for adult learners, the Chorus affiliated with the UD Office of Special Programs and Special Education in 2014. There is no audition to join.

Under the direction of a professionally trained director, the Chorus performs a diverse repertoire of choral literature with an emphasis on American music. In recent years our performance venues have regularly included the Courthouse Square Grand Illumination and downtown Dayton’s First Friday, The Dayton Celebration Chorus has auditioned and been selected annually to sing the National Anthem for a Dayton Dragons game at Fifth Third Field. In addition to two concerts annually at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Dayton, the chorus has sung at various senior communities, Stubbs Park in Washington Township, the University of Dayton, and the Calvary Cemetery chapel for Angel Night.

Chorus members have also enjoyed performance opportunities with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra’s Holiday Festival Community Chorus, the UD New Horizons Band, and the Miami Valley Symphony.

Duffy Liturgical Dance Ensemble

An intergenerational company of singers and dancers whose mission is to  preserve, through research and performance, The American Negro Spiritual.  The group has been in existence for 25 years and has performed throughout the US and overseas.
Director:  Edna Duffy

The Gahanna Community Chorus is a SATB chorus for singers from high school to adult. The mission of the Gahanna Community Chorus is to grow a diverse and joyful chorus of volunteer musicians by providing a positive, welcoming environment where we work towards musical excellence. Our musicians serve and inspire our local community through entertainment, musical enrichment, and education.

Contact at gahannachorus@gmail.com.

Formed in 1989, the group provides adult singers the opportunity to sing a variety of choral literature in traditional choral settings at various events in the community and around central Ohio, as well as major concerts each year. Co-directors  Ellen Tate and Kristi Reed. More information can be found at https://gcchambersingers.wixsite.com/gcchambersingers.

The Hudson Community Chorus is an Adult Chorus for singers in Hudson, Ohio and the surrounding communities.  The Hudson Community Youth Chorus is a treble chorus for girls and boys with unchanged voices in grades 5 through 12.  We are also starting a children’s chorus for singers in grades 3 and 4.

Our website is hudsoncommunitychorus.org.

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.

The LancasterChorale

Lima Symphony Orchestra Chorus

Auditioned chorus that performs regularly with the Lima Symphony Orchestra.
Director:  Mark Munson

Director is a member of ACDA

The Lourdes College Chorus & The Good Company Ensemble, Toledo area
Two choruses based at Lourdes College, both open to community as well as college members.  Good Company is an auditioned subgroup of the Lourdes College Chorus.

Director: Karen Thornton Biscay
Director is a member of ACDA

The Magpie Consort, Columbus
A group of 20 mixed voices based in Columbus, Ohio, with wide-ranging repertoire, from medieval motets to Chinese folk songs.  

Director: Sheena Phillips
Director is a member of ACDA

MUSE - Cincinnati's Women's Choir, Cincinnati

MUSE is a women's choir dedicated to musical excellence and social change. In keeping with our belief that diversity is strength, we are feminist women of varied ages, races, and ethnicities with a range of musical abilities, political interests, and life experiences.
Artistic Director: Dr. Catherine Roma
Director is a member of ACDA

The Perrysburg Chorale
Perrysburg (Symphony) Chorale was founded 30 years ago as a venue for musicians to share their passion for singing. The group was originally formed when four Perrysburg church choirs combined to become the voices for the Perrysburg Symphony Orchestra. Today, they are an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit presenting a wide variety of choral literature in Northwest Ohio. Concerts have included music from early renaissance and baroque to world music and living composers.

The Chorale has performed collaborative events with the Perrysburg Symphony Orchestra, Ballet Theatre of Toledo, Actor Collaborative Toledo, Clarence Smith Community Chorus, Owens Community College, the Perrysburg High School String Select, and others.

The group is happy to accept new members!
All singers are welcome! There is no formal audition necessary, but the director does need to hear you sing to know which section of the choir you belong in. This is a very simple meeting with director. Please contact director.perrysburgchorale@gmail.com to set up this meeting.

Summit Choral Society
he Metropolitan Chorus is a unique adult choral ensemble focusing on a wide variety of music with a intimately-performed works.

Representing many diverse backgrounds, cultures, races and beliefs, these multi-generational singers are brought together by their love of the choral arts. They share a dedication to excellence, exploring and preserving choral repertoire from all over the world.

SCS's Metropolitan Chorus provides relevant, inspiring and ingenuitive programming throughout the greater Akron community.

Shara Cocchiola, Executive Artistic Director

University Choral Society of Bowling Green State University

Symphonic chorus of university students, faculty, staff, and community singers

Director:  Mark Munson
Director is a member of ACDA

Voices of Canton Inc. (VOCI), Canton
VOCI includes choruses for adults, youth, and children, and also a handbell choir.

Artistic Director:  Dr. John C. Peterson

Voices of Solon offers an exciting opportunity for all who love to sing! This community chorus performs a diverse, secular repertoire and features works ranging from Renaissance madrigals to classical masterworks to contemporary jazz. If you are looking for a fun and rewarding musical experience, join Voices of Solon! No audition is required, and singers of all skill levels are encouraged to join. Please call SCA at (440) 337-1400 for more information.

The West Shore Chorale is a non-profit arts organization that presents a wide selection of repertoire in high accessible venues.
Director: John Drotleff   216-375-0342