Exeter’s acclaimed Concert Choir and Chamber Orchestra travelled to California for their first collaborative spring concert tour, March 9 to 14.

The 32-voice Concert Choir, under the direction of Ryan Turner, performed works by Morten Lauridsen, Gwyneth Walker, Gerald Finzi, Eric Whitacre, György Orbán, Bob Chilcott and Jester Hairston. The Chamber Orchestra, under the leadership of Peter Schultz, presented The Overture to Iphigenia in Aulis by Christoph Willibald Gluck, the Claude Debussy Petite Suite and Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite. The two ensembles joined forces for the Franz Josef Haydn Te Deum.

Hear selections from the concert, videotaped in Phillips Church on March 3, 2008  ...

See a photo gallery of the trip  ...

Read about preparations for the concert tour...

Concert tour schedule:

Los Angeles 

Sunday, March 9,  2 PM
Zipper Hall at the Colburn School
200 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA

Monday, March 10 – Morning Educational Outreach Concert
Vena Avenue Elementary School
9377 Vena Avenue
Arleta, CA

Santa Barbara

Tuesday, March 11, 7 PM   
First Presbyterian Church
21 East Constance Avenue
Santa Barbara, CA

Palo Alto

Thursday, March 13, 8 PM   
Campbell Center for the Performing Arts
     at the Sacred Heart Preparatory School
150 Valparaiso Avenue
Atherton, CA

San Francisco

Friday, March 14, 7 PM 
First Unitarian Universalist Church
1187 Franklin (at the corner of Geary)
San Francisco, CA

Exeter, NH

Sunday, March 30, 4 PM
Phillips Church
Phillips Exeter Academy