The Contra Costa Chorale (“Chorale”) is proud to announce that its Spring 2026 Vocal Music Studies Scholarship in partnership with the West Contra Costa Public Education Fund (“Ed Fund West”) is open for applications:
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Contra Costa Chorale Awards 2022 Vocal Music Studies Scholarships
The Chorale is proud to announce the recipients of this year’s Contra Costa Chorale Vocal Music Studies Scholarships for West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD)graduating seniors. These two $1000 scholarships have been awarded to Abraham Blanquel from Richmond High School, and Justin Trujillo from Pinole Valley High School. This scholarship program was created by…
Contra Costa Chorale Hires New Collaborative Keyboard Artist
The Chorale has hired Christopher Alexander as their new Collaborative Keyboard Artist starting with the Spring 2026 season. Christopher Alexander is a pianist and composer currently residing in Emeryville. Receiving a B.A. in Music and English at St. Olaf College, MN, Christopher sang in the St. Olaf Viking and Cantorei choruses, as well as the student…
The Chorale’s Spring 2017 performances of Ein Deutsches Requiem will feature the following guest artists:
John Kendall Bailey – Guest Conductor Due to Music Director Cindy Beitmen’s recent diagnosis with colorectal cancer and her need to focus on her treatment, the Contra Costa Chorale is pleased to welcome John Kendall Bailey as guest conductor for the spring 2017 concert of Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem. We are grateful that he could make…
Fall 2023 Concert: Mozart Requiem
On December 2nd and 3rd, the Contra Costa Chorale performed the newly published 2022 Bärenreiter edition of the Mozart “Requiem,” which was completed and edited by Michael Ostrzyga. Mozart died before the completion of the “Requiem,” and thus various composers, most outstanding of whom was Franz Süssmayr, one of Mozart’s students, finished about one third…
Announcing Contra Costa Chorale’s Fall 2024 Concert
Contra Costa Chorale Presents “Viennese Influence(r)s” December 6 and 8 RICHMOND, California, October 1, 2024: The Contra Costa Chorale, led by its new Artistic Director Dr. Brad Schultz, returns with a program representing some of the great composers of Vienna, on Friday, December 6, at 7:30PM at Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley, 1 Lawson Road, Kensington;…
East Bay Gives 2017 surpasses our goal!
On Thursday, May 4, we raised over $10,000 for our newly established “Directors’ Fund.” A big thank you to all our donors! Through its newly established Directors’ Fund, Contra Costa Chorale proposes becoming a community partner with West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSD), providing mentoring, funding, and choral performance opportunities for students throughout the…