Westminster Choir

Westminster Choir

Joe Miller, conductor

Download a pdf of the Westminster Choir's 2012 Tour Program.

Learn about the Westminster Choir's 2012 Tour of the South.

Setting the standard for choral excellence for 90 years, the Westminster Choir is composed of students at Westminster Choir College, a division of Rider University’s Westminster College of the Arts, in Princeton, N.J. It has been the chorus-in-residence for the Spoleto Festival USA since 1977, performing both in concert and as the opera chorus.

The ensemble’s 2011-2012 season includes participation in Princeton's Memory and the Work of Art project, a concert tour of the South, performances and broadcasts at its home in Princeton, a Carnegie Hall Community Sing in New York and its annual residency at the Spoleto Festival USA.

The Westminster Choir has made two recordings with Maestro Joe Miller. Noël, a collection of French Christmas music and sacred works, also features Westminster alumna Jennifer Larmore, the most recorded mezzo-soprano of our era, and organist Ken Cowan, a member of Westminster’s faculty. The recording was the centerpiece of the PRI Radio broadcast Noël – A Christmas from Paris, hosted by Bill McGlaughlin.

The choir’s debut recording with Maestro Miller, Flower of Beauty, received four stars from Choir and Organ magazine and earned critical praise from American Record Guide, which described the Westminster Choir as “the gold standard for academic choirs in America.”

Praised by The New York Times for its “full-bodied, incisive singing,” the Westminster Choir also forms the core of the Westminster Symphonic Choir, which has performed and recorded with the leading conductors and orchestras of our time. The Symphonic Choir’s 2011-2012 season includes a performance with tenor Andrea Bocelli and the New York Philharmonic, which will be broadcast on PBS’ Great Performances, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Handel’s Messiah with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Peter Schreier, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” with the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Sir Simon Rattle and Varèse’s Nocturnal with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jacques Lacombe.

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Listen to a recording of the Westminster Choir's January 24, 2011 Tour Homecoming concert and broadcast on WWFM The Classical Network. Select January 24 from the program list. Note: You must use Windows Media player to listen to this broadcast.