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BACK BAY CHORALE CELEBRATES ITS FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

Season Details | Audition Details | Carol Commission Competition

A 2025 Grammy®  Award-winning soloist...Your favorite Christmas carols...Free concerts of beloved choral music where YOU get to bring a music score and join us...and a birthday celebration concert at Symphony Hall,  featuring 200 singers, an 80 piece orchestra and one of the nation's best dance programs.

The Back Bay Chorale is 50 years old and is striding into its next half century with an unforgettable season.

We can't wait to share the power of voice with you.
Tickets on sale on September 1

 

NEWS
 
August 5, 2025: Auditions For All Four Parts Announced for August. MORE…

August 1, 2025: BBC Launches New Christmas Carol Commission. MORE…

July 28, 2025: BBC announces 2025-2026 50th Anniversary Season. 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.
Boston Chorus Aims To Help Non-English Speakers Hone The Language >

Your gifts keep us singing.
Thank you to all who continue to support Back Bay Chorale. Your presence at our concerts is vital. Your ongoing donations ensure that we can continue to live into our commitment to musical excellence and community engagement.

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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.