Los Angeles Master Chorale
Mission
When voices rise together — strangers become community. Hearts open, differences soften, beauty takes you beyond yourself.
The Los Angeles Master Chorale is an independent and innovative professional vocal ensemble that shares the traditional and evolving spectrum of choral music with the widest possible audience. Each year, the Master Chorale reaches more than 175,000 listeners, helps more than 10,000 students find their musical voice, commissions new works that reflect our times and fosters belonging across communities.
VISION
We envision a world in which choral music is a bridge for belonging and participation in the arts and a collective voice where we understand and explore our commonalities and differences.
The Los Angeles Master Chorale strives to be a leader in engaging the diverse individuals and communities that make up Los Angeles, our home. The Master Chorale is commited to using the transformative power of choral music to engage and to inspire the people of Los Angeles and around the world.
For more than 60 years, the multi-Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles Master Chorale has been a standard-bearer for choruses across America. Hailed for its powerful performances, technical precision and artistic daring, the Master Chorale reaches more than 175,000 people a year through its concert series at the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall, its international touring of innovative works and its performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and others.
Led by Grant Gershon, Kiki & David Gindler Artistic Director, Associate Artistic Director Jenny Wong, and President & CEO Scott Altman, the Master Chorale was named "the finest-by-far major chorus in America" by the Los Angeles Times. From intimate performances with just six or eight singers to full-scale collaborations featuring 100 exquisite voices, the Master Chorale consistently thrills audiences with its versatility and artistic depth, performing early choral works in any language alongside pop classics and modern pieces, as well as exclusive commissions from the world's most innovative composers.
Voices of Master Chorale singers have been featured on numerous film scores, including "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" and "The Rise of Skywalker," "How to Train Your
Dragon" and "Superman" (2025), as well as on the 97th Academy Awards In Memoriam segment.
The Master Chorale's innovative extraordinary education programs include the renowned High School Choir Festival, the Oratorio Project, Voices Within and Youth Chorus LA, all of which prepare future generations of choral singers and uplift communities through the transformative power of choral music.
land acknowledgment
The Los Angeles Master Chorale acknowledges our presence on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Gabrieleno/Tongva people and their neighbors, including the Tataviam, Serrano, Kizh, and Chumash peoples, whose ancestors ruled the region we now call Southern California for at least 9,000 years. We recognize that settler colonization led to dispossession, displacement, and trauma, and that the impacts of these systems continue to affect Indigenous peoples today. We pay respects to the members and elders of these communities, past and present, who remain stewards, caretakers, and steadfast advocates of these lands, river systems, and ocean waters.
