The Stanford Chamber Chorale is the Stanford Department of Music'’s most select choir comprised of 24 voices drawn from both graduate and undergraduate students at Stanford University. Hailing from across the United States and around the world, these singers represent a variety of academic disciplines and degree programs. As members of the Chamber Chorale, these Stanford students meet a demanding schedule of performing, touring, and recording while maintaining their rigorous academic programs. Over the years, the Chorale has toured in the United States, Japan, England, Wales, and Scotland, Austria, Germany, Israel, Italy, France, and China and has appeared in a notable list of venues, including the great British cathedrals in Wells, Salisbury, York and Llandaff (Cardiff), and at New College Chapel (Oxford), Magdalen College Chapel, (Oxford), the Berlin Philharmonie, Rikkyo University Chapel (Japan), Hakodate Geijutsu Hall (Japan), Kitahiroshima-shi Geijutsu Bunka Hall (Japan), Benaroya Music Center (Seattle), BBC Radio, the National Television of Austria, the Armed Forces Television Network, and the Great Hall of the People (China). The Chorale has also performed collaboratively with some of the most renowned performing organizations in the world, including England’s Tallis Scholars and Joyful Company of Singers, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and St. Hedwig Cathedral Choir (Berlin), and master flamenco guitarist Paco Peña. Dedicated to the performance of literature best suited to the small choral ensemble, the Chamber Chorale has had the honor of receiving works from renowned composers Randall Thompson, Kirke Mechem, Takeo Kudo, Jiri Laburda, and Paul Crabtree.

Through its recordings and tours, the Chorale continues to gain recognition in the international choral community. Dr. John Bertalot, Choirmaster Emeritus at England’s Blackburn Cathedral, praised the Chorale’s performance on its CD Voices of Christmas as “a tour de force of choral technique [that] gives me unbounded delight.” The Chorale’s recent past and future touring activities (2001: Japan, 2002: Pacific Northwest and Canada, 2003: England and Wales, 2004: Hawai‘i, 2005: Germany and Austria, 2006: Los Angeles and Southern California, 2007: England, 2008: China) continue to heighten the visibility of both the ensemble and Stanford University’s commitment to music performance and the arts.