The Santa Fe Desert Chorale is one of the nation’s leading professional chamber choirs. Join twenty-four of the best professional ensemble singers from across the country as they gather in Santa Fe each summer to present one of the largest choral events in the nation. Celebrate the holidays with their popular winter concert series in December.
2025 Summer Festival
Cantos y Cuentos
Songs and stories of today’s Latin America
Experience the vibrant rhythms and soulful melodies of modern-day Latin America as you’re transported across Brazil, Argentina, and Venezuela. Enjoy a world premiere fusing Cuban musical traditions with current choral techniques by Cuban-American composer Ernesto Herrera. Then, return home to the Land of Enchantment with beloved folk tunes featuring New Mexican guitarist Nacha Mendez.
Mass for the Endangered
Journeys of compassion, protection, and hope
Known as “a hymn for the voiceless and the discounted,” Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is an evocative meditation on the fragility of the natural world and a plea to defend it. Paired with this work is Caroline Shaw’s To the Hands, which explores themes of welcome and belonging. Join the Desert Chorale and a guest chamber orchestra for an evening of musical storytelling that reminds us of our shared struggles and triumphs as members of the human family.
Roots & Rivers
Echoes of the past, voices of the future
As one of the nation’s top professional chamber choirs, the Desert Chorale is committed to advancing an art form that brings joy to over 54 million Americans by commissioning new choral works regularly. Discover some of this new music, including a large-scale work that reimagines American folk songs and spirituals, composed by Nigerian-American composer Shawn E. Okpebholo. In his new piece American Choirbook: Six Songs of the Enslaved, Embattled and Emancipated, Okpebholo honors the pain and resilience of the past while celebrating our hopes for the future.
2025 Carols & Lullabies
Experience the warmth, light, and beauty of the holiday season during the Desert Chorale’s annual Winter Festival. Our twenty-four professional artists and guest collaborative pianist return to the Land of Enchantment from across the nation for concerts, caroling, and more. Celebrate this festive time of year with beloved carols you know and love alongside new musical treasures to add to your collection of favorite seasonal tunes.
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