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The Westminster Choirs

Westminster is renowned for its outstanding choral program that includes eight ensembles performing a broad range of repertoire. All students have unparalleled opportunities to perform on a professional level in major concert halls and throughout the country.

Westminster Chapel Choir

Alicia N. Brozovich, conductor
WCC Freshmen, all other Rider University students by audition

The Westminster Chapel Choir is composed of first year undergraduate students at Westminster Choir College and other Rider University students by audition. Chapel Choir takes its name from Westminster’s rich history of leadership in the field of sacred music. The ensemble has evolved over the years, and today its repertoire includes both sacred and secular works.

Westminster Schola Cantorum

Alicia N. Brozovich, conductor

Westminster Schola Cantorum will be on hiatus for the 2022-2023 academic year. This is one of three curricular choirs at Westminster Choir College. Composed of all students in their second year of study at the college, as well as other Rider University students selected by audition, this ensemble forms a vital link between the technique and artistry gained by students in their first-year experience at the college in the Westminster Chapel Choir and the Westminster Symphonic Choir, which performs with many of the world’s finest orchestras and is a cornerstone of the Westminster experience.

Westminster Choir

James Jordan, conductor

Setting the standard for choral excellence since 1920, the Westminster Choir is composed of sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students selected by audition.  The ensemble’s 2022-2023 season includes a series of concerts in New Jersey and a proposed concert tour in March, as well as additional off-campus performances.

Westminster Symphonic Choir

James Jordan, conductor

Westminster Symphonic Choir has performed and recorded with many of the world’s leading orchestras.  It is required for all Westminster Choir College sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students. The ensemble is also open to other Rider University students by audition at fall choral hearings. Singers must have prior choral experience and are held to a high level of musicianship and artistry. Participation in the ensemble may require concurrent private voice study or enrollment in VC 103: Voice Secondary as determined on an individual basis. The 2022-2023 season includes performances on the Rider University campus and additional concerts that will be announced later in the semester.

Westminster Jubilee Singers

Vinroy D. Brown, Jr., conductor

Composed of students selected by audition, the Westminster Jubilee Singers is modeled after the historically acclaimed Fisk Jubilee Singers. Part of Westminster Choir College’s Sacred Music Department, the ensemble performs literature that includes African-American spirituals and folk songs and classical music by African-American composers. Also explored and performed are works by non-African-American composers who have composed and/or arranged music of the African-American experience.

Westminster Kantorei

Westminster Kantorei will be on hiatus for the 2022-2023 academic year. This chamber ensemble specializing in Renaissance, Baroque and Contemporary vocal music was established in 2004. It has consistently gained acclaim for historically informed performances. Past collaborations have included work with many of North America’s leading historically informed ensembles.

Westminster Williamson Voices

Westminster Williamson Voices will be on hiatus for the 2022-2023 academic year. This GRAMMY™ nominated chamber choir is named for the founder of Westminster Choir College, John Finley Williamson, who devoted his life to bringing choral music at the highest level to churches and schools, communicating the human mission of choral singing, a mission continued by this ensemble. The Westminster Williamson Voices’ spring 2021 recordings of works by Thomas LaVoy ’13 and Sarah Rimkus will be released on the Westminster Choir College label in September.

Westminster Williamson Voices Treble Ensemble

Tom T. Shelton, conductor

This ensemble is open to all sopranos and altos. Placement is based on an audition for music majors and minors, during the specified audition dates.  Non-music majors may audition to participate in the ensemble.  If selected, there will be an additional requirement of taking private voice lessons or enrolling in class voice. The ensemble sings literature for treble voices from all historical periods and styles: classical, sacred, secular, serious and lighter works from Broadway to Pops.  

Westminster Concert Bell Choir I

Kathleen Ebling Shaw, conductor

This auditioned ensemble is designed for those with prior ringing experience. The ensemble’s 2022-2023 season will include concerts on campus, as well as performances at Lehigh University and Ocean County College in December. The second semester’s focus will be preparation for spring performances.

Westminster Concert Bell Choir II

Kathleen Ebling Shaw, conductor

This ensemble is open to all University students with or without prior ringing experience. The focus of both semesters will be learning proper ringing and damping, special ringing articulations, understanding the handbell score and ringing musically. Limited performance opportunities may occur.

Choral Studies at Westminster

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