Concert Choir and Chamber Orchestra Spring Concert Tour


Concert Choir and Chamber Orchestra

Exeter’s acclaimed Concert Choir and Chamber Orchestra travelled to California for their first collaborative spring concert tour, March 9 to 14. See a photo gallery of the trip...

The 32-voice Concert Choir, under the direction of Ryan Turner, performed works by Morten Lauridsen, Gwyneth Walker, Gerald Finzi, Eric Whitacre, György Orbán, Bob Chilcott and Jester Hairston. The Chamber Orchestra, under the leadership of Peter Schultz, presented The Overture to Iphigenia in Aulis by Christoph Willibald Gluck, the Claude Debussy Petite Suite and Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite. The two ensembles joined forces for the Franz Josef Haydn Te Deum.

Read about preparations for the concert tour...

Here is the concert tour schedule:

Los Angeles 
Sunday, March 9,  2 PM
Zipper Hall at the Colburn School
200 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
Monday, March 10 ~ Morning Educational Outreach Concert
Vena Avenue Elementary School
9377 Vena Avenue
Arleta, CA
Santa Barbara
Tuesday, March 11, 7 PM   
First Presbyterian Church
21 East Constance Avenue
Santa Barbara, CA
Palo Alto
Thursday, March 13, 8 PM   
Campbell Center for the Performing Arts
     at the Sacred Heart Preparatory School
150 Valparaiso Avenue
Atherton, CA
San Francisco

Friday, March 14, 7 PM 
First Unitarian Universalist Church
1187 Franklin (at the corner of Geary)
San Francisco, CA

Exeter, NH

Sunday, March 30, 4 PM
Phillips Church
Phillips Exeter Academy


For further information on the tour, please contact the music department at (603) 777-3453.

To learn more about Exeter's concert series, please check the Musical Events calendar page. To learn more about events at Exeter, please check the News & Events section of the website. Or, for a recorded voice line listing upcoming events on campus, dial: (603) 777-4309. 





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