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Welcome to the Master Chorale

Home of the Master Chorale of Ventura County, directed by Burns Taft

The Master Chorale actively promotes the growth, quality, appreciation, performance opportunities, and access to classical and contemporary vocal music.

Mission Statement

"The Ventura County Master Chorale is a non-profit public benefit corporation IRS 501 (c) (3), established in 1982 to promote the growth, equality, appreciation and access to classical and contemporary vocal masterworks by all segments of the community, and to provide performance opportunities for those musicians with the training, education and experience sufficient to meet the audition requirement." ...from the Articles of Incorporation

Vision

Every choral master work embodies a wealth of experience that transcends time and place – a heritage too precious to lose. Composers speak to us from the past, and we, in turn, are transported to other times, other places, other insights and ways of being. Singers, obviously are enriched by learning the great choral repertoire, but the community at large is also affected. This is an art that feeds on collegiality, on cooperation, on a quest for excellence, on acceptance – in other words, on many of the values we cherish and that are under such duress these days.

Our dream is to keep the choral art alive in our region striving for ever greater faithfulness to the music and for the high quality exhibited by our choral colleagues from the past and throughout the world.

Our vision for the role that the Master Chorale of Ventura County can play in this community is a shared one, by the singers, the board, the director and the audience. It is not a simple task, but it is one we willingly pursue because we will not surrender to the alternative. Join us in our quest!