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A Community of Voices
Join us for our Season Finale!
Leonard Bernstein - From Broadway to Lincoln Center
featuring the Voices of the Future Soloists
Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 4:00 pm
Lenape Middle School Auditorium
313 W. State Street, Doylestown, PA 18901
with special guest soloist Elizabeth Shammash, soprano
and The Select Choir of Lenape Middle School, Jaime Rogers, director
and our 2025 Voices of the Future winners
Voices of the Future 2025
Congratulations to our Voices of the Future winners!
Senior Helena Badiali from C.B. East, a student of Anne Odland
Lily Mercado, a sophomore from C.B. South (Lindsay Van Osten, teacher)
Carey Bigley, a senior from C.B. West (a student of Anne Odland) and
Junior Santiago Zarate Martinez from C.B. East (a student of Noah Williams).
Voices of the Future is a classical singing competition sponsored by the Bucks County Choral Society for students in grades 9-12 who live or attend school in Bucks County.
Our 8th annual Voices of the Future classical singing program sponsored by Bucks County Choral Society took place in Doylestown on Saturday, April 19, 2025 from 11 am - 1 pm with Cantor Elizabeth Shammash as our master teacher.
Voices of the Future 2025
“Often when one hears about a popular work being performed locally there is a wariness that that rendition might not compare favorably to that given by a more “professional” group. By any measure the quality of Sunday’s spectacular performance [of Carmina Burana] would equal or exceed that of any ensemble! It was brilliant!”
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
— A longtime supporter
Our annual choral-orchestral concert
Carl Orff - Carmina Burana
Moira Smiley - selections from The Rhizome Project
Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 4:00pm
Newtown Middle School Auditorium,
116 Richboro Newtown Rd, Newtown, PA 18940
with the Council Rock North and South combined choirs, Heather Brewer and Corey Axler, directors
Kayla Harriott, soprano and Metropolitan Opera baritone Brian Major and featuring Chris Newcomer as the Dying Swan
Symphony in C
Tom Lloyd’s program notes on Carmina Burana
Tom Lloyd’s program notes on Moira Smiley’s Rhizome Project
This program will last 85 minutes, with no intermission.
Enjoy our concert videos from our recent performance!
Selections from Bucks County Choral Society’s April 6, 2025 concert - The Rhizome Project by Moira Smiley
Carmina Burana by Carl Orff performed by Bucks County Choral Society - April 6, 2025
Thank you to our sponsors
Special thanks to
our concert sponsor
With additional support from
Presbyterian Senior Living - Pine Run Village
Our Choir
Audition for the choir
We are now planning auditions for the first two Tuesdays in September with openings in all parts! Click “read more” below to find out more about membership and apply for an audition time. read more…
Audio and video clips
Hear what we sound like in a wide variety of musical styles. For audio and video clips of Choral Society performances, click here...
Repertoire and collaborations
Innovative programming, major works, collaborations with choirs all over the world: here are complete lists of repertoire and partners since 2000. read more…
Our volunteer leadership
Meet our Board of Directors and Choir Council who keep us going and make sure ‘the trains run on time’ (Choir President Susan McDonnell and recent Board Chair Amy Schmidt pictured above) read more...
Our staff
Our professional musical staff includes Artistic Director Thomas Lloyd, Assistant Conductor Susan Johnson, accompanist Tim Harrell, and a quartet of section leaders. read more...
Our history and mission
Read about how our choir started in 1973 and how our mission has carried us forward since then! read more…
Outreach to Our Extended Family
Singing for Seniors
Since 2005, the Choral Society’s Singing for Seniors program has held two festivals annually. Since the first festival, over 3,000 seniors have participated. Our next Singing for Seniors workshop will be held on May 8, 2025 at Holland Village Senior Living in Holland, PA. These workshops are open to both individuals and senior choirs of any kind!
Voices of the Future
Thomas Lloyd, Bob Vernon (sponsor), Santiago Martinez, Helena Badiali (1st prize), Carey Bigley, Lily Mercado, Lizzie Shammash (clinician), Sue Johnson
Our 8th annual Voices of the Future classical singing program took place in Doylestown on Saturday, April 19, 2025 from 11 am - 1 pm with Cantor Elizabeth Shammash as our master teacher.
Our Music: shared resources for learning
A History of the African-American Spiritual
An extended multi-media website on the history of the African American Spiritual. read more…
A listener’s guide to
Cesar Franck’s The Beatitudes
Elgar’s The Apostles
A multi-media walk through the unique history of both the music and the composer of this late-Romantic masterwork. read more…
Berlioz Requiem
A podcast with musical excerpts comparing Berlioz' setting of the requiem texts those of Mozart and Verdi. read more…
J. S. Bach: Mass in B Minor
An introduction to what Bach saw as the summa of his life’s work. read more…
St. Matthew Passion
An introduction to what Bach saw as the summa of his life’s work. read more…
Your Support
Your gift makes a difference!
Your contribution will help assure that the Choral Society can continue to play a pivotal role in the artistic vitality of Bucks County, bringing together outstanding professional and avocational musicians in performances of great music from across the stylistic spectrum (and without the commute time or expense to New York or Philly!) read more…