CSUSB Choruses

If you are a High School choir student at Bloomington, Moreno Valley, Victorville, Porterville, Arroyo Valley, Citrus, Eisenhower, Cajon, Indian Springs, Pacific, San Gorgonio, Rancho Verde, Redlands, Walnut, Rancho Cucamonga, Jurupa Valley, Corona, Los Osos, Alta Loma, Arrowhead, Crestline, or any HS in our service area, or in Riverside County, we'd love to talk to you about singing in our choirs at Cal State San Bernardino! You don't have to be a voice student or music maj...or - we just want to keep you singing as part of your academic experience! Start planning now for Fall 2020, or if you a junior and yet to decide where you want to go to school - check us out! Reach out to Dr. Leighton here: [email protected]

We could not be prouder of the CSUSB Choruses; all of our outstanding student soloists: Rachel Dandridge, Erick Valencia; Olivia Barker; Hope Carr; our student composer Melody Del Real, who composed a brand new choral work that was premiered last night; our faculty members, Stacey Fraser who sang a stunning solo, and Alastair Edmonstone who played the piano so gorgeously; and our guest soloists, Elissa Johnston, Todd Strange and Abdiel Gonzalez for their fantastic singing. Congrats to all!

We don't wanna brag - but tonight's concert is gonna be lit! Get thee to the CSUSB Recital Hall at 7:30 peeps - you don't wanna miss this!!!!

A few informal snaps of last week's photo shoot. The pro pix still to come!

We are super excited to announce our next concert, Voices for a New Generation, Thursday, June 1, 2017, 7:30 at CSUSB Performing Arts Recital Hall! A mix of old, new, and brand new music is on the program, with top-tier professional soloists, pianist, and percussion! Concert Choir, our masterworks chorale, will present Schubert's timeless Mass in G, with guest soloists Elissa Johnston, Arnold Geis, and Abdiel Gonzalez, and our very own fabulous pianist, Alastair Edmonstone, D...MA. Chamber Singers, our elite contemporary music group, will present 21st century works from Philippine composer Normita Rio Pablico; Seattle-based composer Lauren McLaren; NY composer Moira Smiley; and a world-premiere choral work by CSUSB student, Melody Del Real: all contemporary female composers. Concert Choir, with the soon-to-be-renamed Chamber Singers, will present together Korean composer Hyo-Won Woo's space music, Me-Na-Ri, accompanied by CSUSB percussion students on Taiko drums and gongs, prepared by CSUSB's percussion professor, Todd Johnson, DMA. Our special guest soloist for this work is CSUSB's outstanding professor of voice, soprano Stacey Fraser, DMA. CSUSBs Interim Director of Choral Activities Lesley Leighton will conduct. Don't miss Voices for a New Generation!

Congrats to all of our students on a fantastic concert last night! Way to be pros folks! Terrific singing on some challenging music! We are so proud!

We are crazy excited about our concert tonight! It's definitely not one to miss! CSUSB Recital Hall tonight @ 7:30PM! Here's a wacky picture of Director of Choral Activities Lesley Leighton with Composer David Lang from Jan 2016 during a recording session at Zipper Hall with LA Master Chorale. Lang and Leighton co-produced the album of Lang's music.