2018-19 Season

With this season’s stellar repertoire, we’re celebrating Gregory Wait’s thirtieth and final year at our podium. We’re looking forward to lauding him throughout the year, as well as welcoming our incoming Music Director, to be announced in the Spring.

In our first concert of the season, we can rediscover three of Bach’s cantatas from his highly productive years in Leipzig.

The holiday season concert is more special than ever, featuring one of Schola’s favorite composers, John Rutter, and his wonderful Christmas impressions — plus of course, our sparkling traditional audience carol sing-along!

For our third concert, we sing the powerful Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, showcasing vocal soloists, Crystal Children’s Choir, two pianos and six percussionists.

Our final concert of the season will bring both joy and tears, as we perform the magnificent Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem with Sinfonia Schola Cantorum. This event provides one last opportunity to enjoy Schola Cantorum under the baton of the incomparable Gregory Wait, as he shares Brahms’s quintessential masterpiece in this farewell concert.

View our season brochure for full details!

Community Events

We love to have you join us in song! Be a part of our 52nd annual re-creation of Handel’s Messiah, at the Bay Area’s oldest Messiah Sing — sing the choruses and solos!

For lighter fare, join our assistant conductor Dawn Reyen as she leads fun, informal sing-alongs of favorite music from Oscar and Emmy winners (November) and music for Valentine’s Day (February).

Sing with Schola

If the Schola Cantorum Messiah Sing and Summer Sings whet your appetite for exciting and challenging music, we’d love to welcome you as a member of Schola! With a season of great works approaching, we’re actively welcoming new singers to audition. It’s not too late to practice and perform with us in our 2018‑19 season program. Visit our membership page for more details. Then, call our office at ‭(650) 254‑1700‬ to schedule your audition!