Now in its 30th season, the Eastman-Rochester Chorus (ERC) is Rochester’s symphonic chorus, presenting choral masterworks in collaboration with the orchestras of the Eastman School of Music and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Recent performances of the ERC have included the premiere of Dominick Argento’s Four Seascapes, Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony, Requiems of Mozart, Verdi and Johannes Brahms, Schumann’s Scenes from Faust, Lili Boulanger’s Psalm 130, and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis. Critic John Pitcher wrote that the Beethoven performance “was terrific in every respect…the chorus sang full-throttle, sending vocal sparks throughout the concert hall.” Pitcher’s review of the chorus’s performance of Alexander Nevsky stated that “the Eastman-Rochester Chorus performance of the of the Prokofiev cantata is the most powerful and satisfying thing I’ve heard in the city all year…The Chorus sang with unforgettable emotion.” The 2011 ERC performance of Brahms’ Requiem was reviewed by Stuart Low: “The Eastman-Rochester Chorus sounded well-blended and meticulously rehearsed by director William Weinert, with spot-on intonation and diction. Not even the intricate double fugue concluding Brahms’ Judgment Day portrait poised any terrors for the 150-plus singers.”

In the 2022-2023 season, ERC performs Johannes Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem and Ralph Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony. 

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RECENT REPERTOIRE:
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis; Mass in C; Symphony No. 9
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
​Boulanger, Lili: Psalm 130
Brahms: Nänie; Alto Rhapsody; A German Requiem
Britten: War Requiem
Dvorak: Te Deum
Handel:  Utrecht Te Deum
Haydn: The Creation; The Seasons
Mahler: "Ressurection" Symphony No. 2
Schumann: Transfiguration of Faust; Schubert: Mass in Ab; Requiem for Mignon
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Vaughan ​Williams: Toward the Unknown Region