Your gift keeps us singing.

Thank you to all who continue to support Back Bay Chorale. Your presence at our concerts is vital, and we are thrilled to have sold out our 2024 fall and Christmas performances. Your ongoing donations ensure that we can continue to live up to our commitment to musical excellence and community engagement. There is still time to make a year-end donation. Help us finish the year strong with a gift today!

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Dr. Stephen Spinelli, Music Director

BBC-Stephen Spinelli conducting 350.jpg Dr. Stephen Spinelli is Assistant Professor of Choral Studies at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, serving there since 2022. Spinelli previously served as the assistant director of choral programs at Cornell University, and held visiting appointments at Thomas Jefferson University, Moravian College, Villanova University, and Syracuse University.

Dr. Spinelli has sung with some of the country’s leading vocal ensembles. As a tenor with the Crossing, his credits include the 2018 Grammy Award^®–winning recording of Gavin Bryars’s The Fifth Century. Spinelli also performed with the genre-bending vocal octet Roomful of Teeth. He assisted in the production of their Grammy Award–winning debut album, which yielded the Pulitzer Prize^®–winning recording of Caroline Shaw’s Partita for Eight Voices. As a frequently engaged guest conductor, he particularly cherishes his experiences leading the Maui Chamber Orchestra and Chorus. READ MORE >

What music critics are saying about Back Bay Chorale:

“...powerfully, courageously, accurately, and conveying deep engagements...”

Read Lee Eiseman's review of Back Bay Chorale's performance of Georg Friedrich Handel's Israel in Egypt in Boston Classical Review:
Back Bay Chorale Strikes Fire with Exodus >

“...an enveloping warmth and splendor...earthshaking power...”

Read Aaron Keebaugh's review of Back Bay Chorale's performance ofJohannes Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem in Boston Classical Review:
Back Bay Chorale closes season with a warm, consolatory Brahms Requiem >

What our Bridges ESOL Chorus participants say about their experience:

“you don’t have to fear making a mistake...”

Listen to WBZ NewsRadio 1030's report about our ESOL Chorus.
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Back Bay Chorale shares the power of voice, advancing the spirit of community.

Founded in 1973, the Back Bay Chorale is a 120-member auditioned chorus. For nearly 50 years, we have drawn talented singers from the greater Boston area to perform a repertoire that ranges from the Renaissance to the contemporary.

In addition to our annual concert series, the Chorale also shares music throughout the Boston community through our Bridges program.

Musician, minister, and social activist Larry Hill founded the Back Bay Chorale at Boston’s Church of the Covenant to create a musical ministry that would bring meaning to both singers and their audience.

In the years since Hill’s death in 1989, the Chorale has continued to grow in stature and is now regarded as one of Boston’s premier nonprofessional choruses.