Los Angeles Master Chorale
About this Artist
The Los Angeles Master Chorale is “the finest-by-far major chorus in America” (Los Angeles Times) that turns “precision into wonder” (New Yorker). Hailed for its powerful performances, technical precision, and artistic daring, the Chorale is led by Grant Gershon, Kiki & David Gindler Artistic Director; Associate Artistic Director Jenny Wong; and President & CEO Jean Davidson. Reena Esmail is Swan Family Artist-in-Residence.
Created by legendary conductor Roger Wagner in 1964, the Chorale is a founding resident company of The Music Center and choir-in-residence at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The fully professional choir is a diverse and vocally dynamic group that reaches over 175,000 people a year through its concert series at Walt Disney Concert Hall, international touring of innovative works, and performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and others.
The Chorale’s discography includes the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Deutsche Grammophon recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, for which the Chorale won a Best Choral Performance Grammy® Award with the National Children’s Chorus, Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, and Pacific Chorale. Under the direction of Gershon, the Chorale has released eight recordings including Mysterium with Anne Akiko Meyers on Avie Records and The Sacred Veil by Eric Whitacre on Signum Records. The Chorale is on the soundtracks of many major motion pictures, including Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and Jungle Cruise.
Throughout 2018 and 2019, the Chorale toured its production of Lagrime di San Pietro, directed by Peter Sellars, earning rave reviews across the globe: Süddeutsche Zeitung called the 2019 Salzburg Festival performance “painfully beautiful;” Sydney Morning Herald said, “Their voices soared to the heavens;” and The Stage (London) called Lagrime a “balm for the soul.” In the 2022/23 season, the Chorale will perform its second collaboration with Sellars, Music to Accompany a Departure, which will also tour.