Welcome

The Boston Choral Ensemble provides opportunities for singers and audiences to enjoy and learn about challenging, high-quality choral music.

We are an auditioned choir of 28 – 32 mixed voices. Our programs are varied and engage listeners both intellectually and emotionally. In recent years, programs have included musical monuments like Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil (Vespers) and Pärt’s seldom-heard Passio, 20th century classics like Swayne’s Magnificat or Fine’s The Hour-Glass, masterworks of the Renaissance such as Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices and Lassus's Lagrime di San Pietro, and other works by composers such as Britten, Distler, Howells, Josquin, Miskinis, Poulenc, Schütz, Tallis, and Victoria. For a complete listing of past seasons, visit this page.

The Boston Choral Ensemble Commission Competition

The Boston Choral Ensemble has just completed its 7th season which included the enormously successful premiere of Zachary Wadsworth’s Look down, fair moon. Wadsworth was the winner of our BCE’s 2008 Commission Compeition.

BCE is pleased to announce our 2009 Commission Competition. All necessary information is listed online here. Please browse the Competition website and join the 2009 edition.

Join the Boston Choral Ensemble

At the beginning of most concert cycles, the Boston Choral Ensemble welcomes new members through and open rehearsal and audition process.

Our membership is an active group that is especially interested in innovative, high-quality programs. Our rehearsals are fast-paced and include numerous approaches to learning repertoire. If you think you may be interested, visit this page and learn more.

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Teresa Tam, Photographer

The Boston Choral Ensemble is thrilled to have established a relationship with Boston-area photographer Teresa Tam. Teresa is an editorial and advertising photographer whose style is clean, classic, polished, and professional. If you'd like to learn more about Teresa, visit our affiliations page or see more samples of her work at her own page.

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BCE Joins Forces

The Boston Choral Ensemble supports affiliations with a variety of organizations in the Greater Boston area and beyond. Learn more by clicking below and find out how BCE works with other organizations to build and spread the work of our mission.

The Boston Choral Ensemble

Hear us in Concert

The Boston Choral Ensemble's 7th season is over and we're on a short summer recess. To view the program and hear audio samples of BCE live, in concert, visit our Past Season Archive.

For information about our 2008–2009 season, visit us periodically during the summer as we announce the details.

For information about audition and joining our ranks, visit our audition page.






Hear BCE at Home!

Did you miss a BCE concert? Want to hear us for yourself? Not sure what kind of music we sing?

Check out our past seasons and look for this symbol: . Click and you can hear 30-60" samples of BCE. The highly-compressed MP3 files load quickly and are taken from live archival recordings.