James John, conductor

The Queens College Choir is a select ensemble of 35-40 music majors, and is the School of Music’s principal undergraduate choral organization. Repertoire spans a wide variety of periods and styles, and occasionally includes the performance of major works combined with the Queens College Chorus and/or Choral Society. Recent performances have included semi-staged productions of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo and Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with period instruments, a program of English choral music, a cappella choral music from Switzerland, Vaughan Willliams’ Three Shakespeare Songs, Debussy’s Trois Chansons, Brahms’s Zigeunerlieder, Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, and Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. In 2007, the QC Choir was one of the featured ensembles at St. Patrick’s annual holiday celebration "A City Singing at Christmas," and performed a program of music by Eric Whitacre at Carnegie Hall.