Dubuque Chorale

Our mission: To engage, educate, enrich, and inspire the community by presenting diverse choral music with artistic excellence. The Dubuque Chorale is a community choral organization of singers from Dubuque and outlying communities. Singers of all ages from high school on are welcome to participate in this nonprofit group, which is dedicated to imp... roving the musical skills of its singers and to providing quality musical entertainment for its audiences. Dennis Williams founded the group in 1971. The chorales initial purpose was to study and perform the great choral masterworks with orchestra; the first season featured Handels Messiah and Haydns Creation. Since then the group has performed over 60 major choral works, and its mission has evolved to include all great choral music. The Chorales almost five decades of performances, with over 1,100 singer alumni reaching more than 40,000 audience members, attests to the accomplishment of this mission. In 1986 the Chorale began collaborating with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra with the performance of that years Holiday Concerts. The relationship continues today, with the Chorale typically joining the DSO for Holiday Pops and another featured work during the season as part of the symphonys subscription series. The Chorale also presents its own concerts in the fall and spring, an outdoor performance in the summer, and additional engagements as requested. In 1994 the Dubuque Chorale embarked on its first international tour to England and Wales. Since then members of the organization have visited and performed in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Italy (singing for a mass at the Vatican), Switzerland, New Zealand, and Australia (singing with renowned conductor Eric Whitacre at the Sydney Opera House). In recent years they joined choirs from the Wisconsin communities of Platteville, Mt. Horeb, and Fond du Lac to tour New York City, the British Isles, and Quebec. In 2018 Dr. Amanda Huntleigh accepted the position of artistic director ...Read More