Past Performances
2023-2024
When the Violin Reena Esmail (b. 1983)
Rejoice in the Lamb Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
When the Violin Reena Esmail (b. 1983)
2022-2023
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
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
Brahms Requiem with Camellia Symphony – Nov 9
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…
Spring Concert - May 11
Telemann
Mendelssohn
Rachmaninoff
Gjeilo
Whitacre
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 (Reprise)- May 26
Lux Aeterna – Lauridsen
Song for Athene – Taverner
40th Spring Concert – May 19
Requiem – Rutter
Lux Aeterna – Lauridsen
Song for Athene – Taverner
2017-2018
Holiday Concert – Dec 16 and 17
Both Concerts are short holiday performances suitable for families with sing alongs and featuring handbell choirs from DCC and UU church.
Concert with the Camellia Symphony – Nov 11
Mozart Requiem
Spring Concert with the Davis Children’s Choir – May 13
Songs of the Earth
Featuring two pianos, oboe and percussion
Davis Chorale and UC Davis Choirs and Orchestra - March 12
Brahms’ Requiem
2016-2017
Messiah Sing-Along – December 18
Handel’s Messiah
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
We Wish You a Merry Christmas.
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
Night to Day – April 30
Lauridsen: selections from the Nocturnes
Music by Brahms, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Siskind, Burleigh, Vaughan Williams, and Raminsh
SacSings! – Sacramento Choral Festival – April 24
Lauridsen: selections from the Nocturnes
Music by Tchaikovsky, Siskind, and Burleigh
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
SacSings! – The Sacramento Choral Festival - June 14
Works by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Bruckner, Schuetz and Gjeilo.
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
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
2014-2015
Messiah Sing-Along – December 21
Handel’s Messiah
Holiday Concert with the Davis Children’s Chorale - December 13
Pinkham ~ Wedding Cantata
Stroope ~ Hodie (with children)
Finzi ~ Magnificat
SacSings! – The Sacramento Choral Festival June15
An Interfaith Vespers Service - June 1
Mozart – Laudate Dominum
Britten – Rejoice in the Lamb
Brahms – Lass dich nur nichts nicht dauren
Dreams and Dances Concert – April 5
Featuring Britten’s Choral Dances from Gloriana
Gwyneth Walker’s Dreams
Dances and Fern Hill by John Corgliano.
2013-2014
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
Fall Concert with the Camillia Symphony and other choirs – November 16
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
An Interfaith Vespers Service - June 2
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)