2025-2026 Season:
Anchored In Justice - Reaching in Love
Pride & Joy: Rise Up Singing
Aurora, Nova & Music Stars Youth Choirs
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 -6:30pm; Oakland Temple Hill Auditorium
Our annual Fall youth concert celebrates our children, the pride and joy of our communities. Over 300 students from Cantare's youth choir programs will unite for an uplifting program featuring music from Civil Rights icons Mavis Staples and Curtis Mayfield and "Glory" from the movie Selma. This concert is free to attend!
Lead With Love
Cantare Chorale, Aurora & Nova Youth Choirs
Saturday, December 6, 2025 - 7:30pm; Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church
Sunday, December 7, 2025 - 4pm; First Presbyterian Church of Oakland
Our annual December holiday set, Lead with Love, is always a highlight for our audiences and will feature selections that focus on themes of the holiday season that include hope, promise, justice, love, peace, compassion, and unity. Included are works by Willan, Memley, Hailstork, Runestad, Ešenvalds, and others, including C. H. Johnson’s All of Us from Considering Matthew Shepard.
General: $44 | Senior: $39 | Student: $20
Get your tickets before December 1 for an early bird discount rate!
The Three B’s: Bach * Beethoven * Brahms
Cantare Chorale with Orchestra and Soloists
Saturday, March 21, 2026 -7:30pm; Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church
Sunday, March 22, 2026 - 4pm; First Presbyterian Church of Oakland
The Chorale will perform works by these three famous classical German composers featuring Beethoven’s Symphony #9, Mvt 4: Ode to Joy; Bach’s Motet #6: Lobet den Herrn, all Heiden, and Jesus bleibet meine Freude; and Brahms’ Nänie and the fourth movement of his German Requiem, How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place. Tickets available soon.
Spring Concert: Give A Little Love
Aurora, Nova and Music Stars Youth Choirs
Friday, May 1, 2026 - 6:30pm; Oakland Temple Hill Auditorium
Our annual spring concert celebrating the hard work from all of our youth choirs! Music stars from Cleveland, Franklin, Melrose Leadership Academy, Piedmont, and Lincoln will join our advance Nova and Aurora youth choirs for this concert celebrating the second half of our season title, “reaching in love”.
Until All of Us Are Free
Cantare Chorale, Aurora & Nova Youth Choirs
Saturday, May 16, 2026, 7:30pm - Venue TBA
Sunday, May 17, 2026, 4pm - Venue TBA
We close our season commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the signing of The Declaration of Independence. Our concert title addresses today’s reality of this historical vision. Works include American composers and various genres including folk songs, Broadway show music, jazz, spirituals, hymns, and patriotic songs. Tickets available soon.
Previously This Season:
Your Ticket to the Movies
Lafayette - Saturday, July 26, 2025 - 7:30pm
Oakland - Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 4pm
Join us for a variety of the American Film Institute’s greatest songs from the last 100+ years! Songs include “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend”, “Singin’ in the Rain”, “Rainbow Connection”, “My Heart Will Go On”, and “Let It Go”.
People Get Ready
Cantare Chorale & Aurora Youth Choir
David Morales & Julie Haydon, Directors
Sunday, October 5, 2025 - 4pm; Moraga Valley Presbyterian Church
The perfect family outing! A concert for all ages that includes a medley of Duke Ellington songs and works by Copland, Alanis Morissette, Hagenberg, Jeffrey Ames, and Curtis Mayfield. Free ice cream for all from Loard’s Ice Cream - Orinda following the concert.
Cantare in Action
Sanctus | Messa da Requiem | Giuseppe Verdi
Ol’ Man River | Jerome Kern, arr. Russell Robinson
Unclouded Day | Shawn Kirchner
Freedom Train | Rollo Dilworth
