On Friday, May 10 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 12 at 3:30 p.m. area audiences will have two opportunities to hear The Oratorio Society of Virginia with guest soloists and 44-member orchestra under the baton of Michael Slon. This production culminates The Society’s 56th season and will feature an all-Beethoven program to celebrate the 200th anniversary--almost to the day on May 7, 1824--of the premiere of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony as well as revive the 2020 spring program that was canceled due to the pandemic shutdown. The program will include the final choral movement of the 9th as well as Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, an overture, and Meeresstille und Glückliche Fahrt.".

Friday evening’s performance will be at Grisham Hall, St. Anne’s-Belfield School’s dynamic performing arts auditorium. On Sunday afternoon The Oratorio Society will reprise the concert at Old Cabell Hall at UVA. Join us to experience this inspiring and transforming music.

A livestream option is also available for this performance. Tickets for Friday’s performance and livestream access are available for purchase at www.oratoriosociety.org or by calling 434-295-4385. Tickets for Sunday’s performance can also be purchased through the UVA Arts Box Office online or by calling 434-924-3376.

The performance features several guest artists including soprano Christina Pier Cronin, tenor Jamison Lee Walker, bass Weston Hurt, and pianist Peter Henderson. The concert will be led by Oratorio Society Music Director, and Director of UVA Choral Music, Michael Slon.

Our 2023-2024 season is generously sponsored by our Presenting Sponsor, The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation. Additional funding is also provided by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, Wegmans, Bama Works, and individual contributors in central Virginia and beyond. For over 50 years, The Oratorio Society of Virginia has offered high quality, engaging concerts for the cultural enrichment, creative inspiration, and education of its home community of Charlottesville and the surrounding region. Throughout five decades of performances, this all-volunteer chorus has amassed an impressive repertoire, which includes works by Bernstein, Bach, Hailstork, Mozart, Rutter, and many more. Collaborative partners include The Charlottesville Opera, the UVA University Singers, The Charlottesville Symphony, and Charlottesville Ballet. For more information, please visit www.oratoriosociety.org