Metropolitan Chorale

Founded in 1979, the Metropolitan Chorale is an auditioned chorus that is recognized as one of metropolitan Boston’s premier choral ensembles. 

Since 2004, the Metropolitan Chorale has been under the direction of Dr. Lisa Graham who also serves as the Evelyn Barry Director of Choral Programs at Wellesley College. Concerts explore works by many of today’s leading American and British composers, as well as major choral masterworks, including Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Bach’s Mass in B minor, Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony, and Handel’s Israel in Egypt. Programs feature important artists of our day from bass-baritone Justin Hopkins and soprano Estelí Gomez, a lead artist with the Grammy Award-winning Roomful of Teeth, to Robin Young, host of NPR’s nationally syndicated program Here and Now. Commissions include works by Kirke Mechem and Boston-based composer Thomas Vignieri. One of the chorus's most ambitious undertakings was the commissioning of Sh’ma, by Andy Vores, a piece memorializing Holocaust victims and survivors. The piece received recognition by the Boston Globe as one of the best new works of 1996.

In addition to performances at All Saints Parish in Brookline, the Chorale can be heard throughout the Boston area at such prestigious venues as New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall and Sanders Theatre at Harvard University. In December 2013, the Metropolitan Chorale made its Boston Pops debut under the direction of conductor Keith Lockhart on a seven-concert tour of major cities on the East Coast.