Welcome! Oberlin College Choir performs great a cappella and accompanied choral music from the Rennaissance to today. The Oberlin College Choir is the only major Conservatory ensemble where College students and Conservatory voice majors regularly perform together.

We rehearse MWF from 4:30 - 6:00, and present two to three concerts each semester, providing one of the most intense and varied choral experiences on campus.

Fall 2024 Auditions:

Auditions for incoming and returning students will take place during first-year orientation.

• Voice Majors: Sign up for a voice major audition time here.

• All other students: Sign up for an audition time here.

Auditions will explore vocal range and music reading/learning ability. There is no need to prepare a song to sing.

Repertoire/Concert dates:

Oberlin College Choir will present two programs this fall.

Thurs., Oct. 17, 2024; 7:30 PM, Warner Concert Hall

• Craig Hella Johnson: Song from the Road

• Reena Esmail: A Winter Breviary

• Anton Bruckner: Os Justi

• Charles Ives: Psalm 67

• Claude Debussy: Trois Chansons

• Samuel Coleridge Taylor: The Lee Shore

• Johannes Brahms: Four Quartets, Op. 92

Sat., Dec. 6 & Sun., Dec. 8: Rhiannon Giddens Omar

We have the honor of presenting the first full concert-version performances of Rhiannon Giddens' Pulitzer-Prize winning opera, Omar on Dec. 6th in Oberlin and Dec. 8th in Cleveland. In addition to being a Pulitzer-Prize winning composer, Giddens is a two-time Grammy Award winner, a MacArthur Genius grant recipient, she appears playing banjo on Beyoncé's Texas Hold 'Em, and she is a proud Oberlin alum (class of 2000).

Past Recordings:

from Rachmaninoff's All Night Vigil: Now let thy servant depart & God-bearing Virgin, rejoice (jump to 17 minutes)

Caroline Shaw's To the Hands