Welcome to the WVC 2024-25 Season

We are excited to kick off our new season, which, starting in December, includes three concerts at our home at Judson Memorial Church!

Unless otherwise noted, concerts and events take place at (or start from) Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South (at Thompson Street), NYC.  Accessible entrance is available around the corner at 243 Thompson Street.

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Holiday Concert: Dwell In Unity

Friday, December 20th, 2024 at 7:30pm

Join the West Village Chorale for our annual holiday concert, which this year will focus on themes of unity and peace. In addition to works by Abbie Betinis, Leonard Bernstein, Mark Miller, and Zenaida Robles, the centerpiece for this concert will be Margaret Burk’s This Holy Hour for harp and chorus, a gorgeous modern-day take on the Ceremony of Carols.

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Requiem

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Sonia Headlam, Soprano
Justin Beck, Bass-Baritone

This program for chorus and orchestra pairs Fauré’s Requiem—a piece that has long been beloved by singers and audiences alike—with Joel Thompson’s Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, a recent choral work that replaces the traditional “Seven Last Words from the Cross” with the final words of unarmed black men murdered by police officers.

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Transatlantic

Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 5:00pm

Our final concert of the 2024-2025 season draws on music from the old and new worlds, acknowledging the impact of European colonialism on Latin American choral music and celebrating the musical heritage of spirituals and gospel music in North America. This concert features compositions by underrepresented Renaissance and 20th century composers—including Modesta Bor, José Maurício Nunes Garcia, Vincente Lusitano, and Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla—contemporary American composers Arianne Abela, Jake Runestad, and Brandon Williams, and spiritual arrangements by Marques Garrett, Jester Hairston, and Moses Hogan.