Westminster Symphonic Choir

Long recognized as one of the world’s leading symphonic choral ensembles, the Westminster Symphonic Choir has recorded and performed with major orchestras under virtually every internationally acclaimed conductor of the past 90 years.

The choir first performed in 1934 when it joined The Philadelphia Orchestra and Leopold Stokowski to perform Bach’s Mass in B Minor in the Princeton University Chapel to celebrate the move of Westminster Choir College to New Jersey. Since then, the list of renowned conductors – Abbado, Bernstein, Giulini, Kubelik, Masur, Mehta, Muti, Tilson-Thomas, Nézet-Séguin, Shaw, and, of course, Flummerfelt - and orchestras - New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Gewandhaus, Vienna, Berlin, L.A., Atlanta, National – has grown to establish Westminster Symphonic Choir as the most uniquely sought-after collaborator on the East Coast of the United States. The Choir’s extensive discography includes premiere recordings of works of Kaija Saariaho, Messiaen’s Le Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ (winner of Le Prix du President de le Republique), and ground-breaking recordings with Leonard Bernstein and the NY Philharomnic, including a Grammy-winning recording Haydn’s Lord Nelso Mass and Bernstein’s definitive Deutcshe Grammophon recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2.

Under its current conductor, four-time Grammy winning expert in new music and opera, Donald Nally, Westminster Symphonic Choir continues to mine new directions in choral singing.