About Us:

Escondido Choral Arts is a program of vocal music to further the art of singing in our community, and to provide educational opportunities in music for young people and adults.

The Center Chorale is an ensemble of choral singers endorsed by the California Center for the Arts, Escondido performing choral literature of past masterworks and Twentieth and Twenty-first Century compositions in a variety of styles. The ensemble partners with the Center Children's Chorus in promoting vocal music in our community. The Center Chorale will be dedicated to excellence in performance and education and also to preserving the tradition of singing as an expression of art.

Dedicating ourselves to music that is Art  brings us together. I like to think about the analogy of standing before one of the European Cathedral stained glass windows. We look up at the beautiful colors that fall on us, we admire the craftsmanship, we acknowledge the message or subject of the work, and we are awestruck by its beauty and the inner peace that we experience. Music is like that it doesn't matter who we are or what we believe, but the Art itself brings us together and says more than the human word can express or dogma can define.

I look forward to a future of making beautiful and meaningful music with you, whether as a singer or a listener. A favorite quote of mine is by T.S. Eliot: "Music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts".