W&M Choir
About
Celebrating the 100th year (1922-23) since its founding, the Choir of the College of William & Mary continues to appear regularly both in the United States and abroad. The Choir has had the honor of performing twice for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II—most recently in 2007—and was one of four choirs invited to perform in concert with the United States Marine Band at the 1997 Presidential Inaugural on the Capitol steps in Washington, D.C. In February 2012, the Choir sang for the investiture of former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as William and Mary’s new chancellor. The Choir has toured internationally every third year since 1978. Its 2020 tour was designed to take place in Japan and South Korea but was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous tours have taken the Choir to Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Spain, Morocco, Greece, Turkey, and South Africa. The Choir has released four recordings: Joseph Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, J. S. Bach’s St. John Passion, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, and a recording featuring Bach’s motet Jesu, meine Freude (BWV 227) and the premiere performance of Adolphus Hailstork’s Triumph in My Song (2001). To learn more, please visit the choir's website: https://choir.pages.wm.edu/.