2025-2026

What Sweeter Music - Dec. 6

• A wide variety of holiday and winter themed pieces throughout the span of classical music. 

• A guest string quartet, as well as LuAnn Higgs at the piano. 

• Includes Durante’s Magnificat

• Buxtehude’s arrangement of In Dulci Jubilo 

• Music by composers Elaine Hagenberg, John Rutter, Kirke Mechem, Shawn Kirchner, Mack Wilberg, Sarah Quartel, Aminadav Aloni and Edward Elgar

Family Friendly Holiday Concert - Dec. 14

• DC/DYC combined concert 2pm, Davis Community Church.  

Capitol Rotunda Holiday Concert - Dec. 22

2024-2025

Celebrate Song - November 2

• A fun auction event for the Davis Chorale community

Hope Renewed - December 7

• Our holiday concert featuring eclectic American music 

• Early American carols by William Billings 

• Ubi Caritas by Duruflé 

• Contemporary settings of old English Christmas texts by Lloyd Pfautsch 

• Music celebrating Chanukah

• Flute, oboe, cello, percussion and piano ensemble

Family Friendly Holiday Concert - December 21

• A fun variety of holiday songs sung with the Davis Youth Choir

Spring Concert with Mariachi Puente - February 21

• Collaboration with Mariachi Puente (local mariachi youth organization Directed by Hiram & Ximena Jackson) 

• mariachi and other music celebrating Hispanic culture.

Bruckner Te Deum with Camellia Symphony - April 26 

End-of-Year Family Friendly Concert with Davis Youth Choir - June 1

2023-2024

Davis Chorale Sing-Along - April 14

• Vivaldi's Gloria

Something Old, Something New - April 28

• Mozart's Solemn Vespers paired with works by contemporary composers

• Dance performance by Pamela Trokanski Dance Theater and Light Ballet Company

In Paradisum: Music Exploring the Divine  - April 30

• When the Violin Reena Esmail (b. 1983)

• Rejoice in the Lamb Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

• When the Violin Reena Esmail (b. 1983)

End-of-year concert with Davis Youth Choir -June 2

• A medley of this year's favorite songs performed by DYC and DCC. 

Light of the World - June 10

• Fauré's Requiem

• Collaboration with Camellia Symphony

2022-2023

Sing out, My Soul!– April 24

• Excerpts from Gwyneth Walker’s Sing Evermore

• Works by Brahms, Beethoven, Frank Ticheli 

• New works by Sarah Quartel and Marques Garrett

2020-2021

Concerts canceled due to Covid-19 pandemic

2019-2020

Brahms Requiem with Camellia Symphony – Nov 9

Holiday Family Friendly Concerts - Dec 7

• Twas The Night Before Christmas

• S’Vivon – Bertaux

• Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day – Gardner

• Nos Galan – Ferko

• Go Where I Send The – Caldwell/Ivory

Spring Concert - May 11

• Telemann

• Mendelssohn

• Rachmaninoff

• Gjeilo

• Whitacre

Davis Chorale and Davis Shakespeare Festival team up to present A Night at the Movies – July 21

Music from:

• Wizard of Oz

• The Lion King

• Sound of Music

• West Side Story

• and more…

2018-2019

40th Holiday Concert – Dec 15

• St. Nicolas – Britten

• Magnificat – Bach

Holiday Concert for Families – Dec 22

Messiah Sing-Along - Dec 23

40th Spring Concert – May 19

• Requiem – Rutter

• Lux Aeterna – Lauridsen

• Song for Athene – Taverner

40th Spring Concert (Reprise) - May 26

• Lux Aeterna – Lauridsen

• Song for Athene – Taverner

2017-2018

Concert with the Camellia Symphony – Nov 11

• Mozart Requiem

Holiday Concert – Dec 16 and 17

• Both Concerts are short holiday performances suitable for families with sing alongs

• Featuring handbell choirs from DCC and UU church

Davis Chorale and UC Davis Choirs and Orchestra - March 12

• Brahms’ Requiem

Spring Concert with the Davis Children’s Choir – May 13

• Songs of the Earth

• Featuring two pianos, oboe and percussion

2016-2017

Holiday Concert – December 3

• Alma Redemptoris by Palestrina 

• Magnificat by Purcell

• Rise up Shepherds 

• three Hebrew songs 

• Nigerian song Bethelehemu, accompanied by drums

• Audience sing-along Christmas Carols, arranged by Davis Wilcocks 

• T’was the Night Before Christmas, set to music by Ken Darby in 1942

•  A Feast of Christmas, composed in 2007 by English composer Alan Bullard

Messiah Sing-Along – December 18

•  Handel’s Messiah

SacSings! – Sacramento Choral Festival – April 24

• Lauridsen: selections from the Nocturnes

• Music by Tchaikovsky, Siskind, and Burleigh

Night to Day – April 30

• Lauridsen: selections from the Nocturnes

• Music by Brahms, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Siskind, Burleigh, Vaughan Williams, and Raminsh

Vespers Concert – June 12

• Tchaikovsky – Gladsome Night

• Bruckner – Locus Iste

• Biebl – Ave Maria

• Brahms – Motet Op.29, No.2

• Cohen – Adonai Roi

• Spirituals and Hymns

2015-2016

Holiday Concert with the Davis Children’s Choir – December 12

• Lloyd Pfautsch ~ “A Day for Dancing” – with winds and percussion

• Members of Lisa Applegate’s dance studio will dance original choreography during “A Day for Dancing”

• Carol sing-alongs

• Others 

UCD Alumni Chorus Performance with UCD Orchestra – March 8

• Vaughan Williams ~ Song of Thanksgiving

• Vaughan Williams~ Toward the Unknown Region

• Mendelssohn ~ Verleih uns Frieden

• Herbert Howells ~ Hymnus Paradisi

Spring Concert – June 7

• Bach ~ Cantata 4 Christ Lag in Todesbanden

• Gjeilo ~ The Ground

• Rachmaninoff ~ Blessed is the man

• Bruckner ~ Os Justi

• Mozart ~ Missa Brevis K 194

• Schutz ~ Psalms 8 and 110

SacSings! – The Sacramento Choral Festival - June 14

•  Works by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Bruckner, Schuetz and Gjeilo.

2014-2015

Holiday Concert with the Davis Children’s Chorale - December 13

• Pinkham ~ Wedding Cantata

• Stroope ~ Hodie (with children)

• Finzi ~ Magnificat

Messiah Sing-Along - December 21

• Handel’s Messiah

Dreams and Dances Concert - April 5

• Featuring Britten’s Choral Dances from Gloriana 

• Gwyneth Walker’s Dreams 

• Dances and Fern Hill by John Corgliano

An Interfaith Vespers Service - June 1

• Mozart – Laudate Dominum

• Britten – Rejoice in the Lamb

• Brahms – Lass dich nur nichts nicht dauren

SacSings! – The Sacramento Choral Festival - June 15

2013-2014

Fall Concert with the Camillia Symphony and other choirs – November 16

• Beethoven’s 9th Symphony

Christmas in the Americas - December 14

• Navidad Nuestra (“Our Nativity”) by Argentine composer Ariel Ramirez

• Medly by Conrad Susa under the title “Carols and Lullabies — Christmas in the Southwest.” 

• Huron Carol by Jean de Brébeuf

• The Three Kings

• The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy 

• Judea — A Virgin Unspotted by William Billings 

• I Wonder As I Wander

• Go Where I Send Thee

Spring Concert – April 13

• J. S. Bach’s Cantata 196 (Der Herr denket an uns)

• Mozart’s Missa Brevis

• Ola Gjeilo's Dark Night of the Soul (2010) 

• Luminous Night of the Soul (2011)

An Interfaith Vespers Service - June 2