Are you an experienced vocalist looking for challenging repertoire and a welcoming, diverse choral community? We’d love for you to join us! Sacred and Profane Chamber Chorus has openings for voices for a high soprano and tenors for our 2025–26 season, with possible openings in other sections. Fall rehearsals begin Tuesday, September 9, 2025.
Auditions are scheduled by appointment. Visit www.sacredprofane.org/audition to learn more about our upcoming season and audition process and to complete a brief form.
About Sacred and Profane Chamber Chorus:
Founded in 1977, Sacred & Profane is a chamber chorus that performs a wide variety of a cappella choral music. Concert repertoire includes sacred and secular works from the middle ages to the contemporary period, drawing from classical, ethnic & folk traditions. We aim to provide an inspiring & educational experience for audiences & chorus members through innovative programming, intensive preparation & high quality performances.
S&P is composed of 28 to 32 singers (SATB), each bringing superior musicianship, vocal skill, and dedication to the ensemble, achieving professional-level performances. As a result, the ensemble is capable of superior execution of challenging repertoire from across the musical canon, including contemporary and highly demanding works. Our talented singers represent many facets of our diverse Bay Area communities; from a wide range of backgrounds, ages, and demographics. S&P embraces our vibrant membership and strives to explore and celebrate this through our repertoire.
Sacred and Profane is committed to celebrating our vibrant and diverse community. Our core values include uniting our voices for change and using our platform as artists to challenge inequity and amplify unheard voices. We stand in solidarity with those who are systemically silenced, marginalized, and oppressed, and we embrace the power of music to express our shared humanity. We support equity and belonging through our choice of repertoire, our inclusion of singers, audiences, and board members, and our actions as an organization. www.sacredprofane.org
For more information about the choir and repertoire, participation requirements, the audition process, or to schedule and audition, visit sacredprofane.org/audition
48th Season: Elements of Music
Fall 2025 | Gather at the River: Songs of Water & Ice
Featuring music about rivers, oceans, snow, and ice. Composers: Brahms, Stanford, Poulenc, and Britten, Coleridge-Taylor, Judith Bingham, Stacey Gibbs, and some popular music from the Swedish songwriter Everte Taube and the a cappella group the Real Group.
Winter 2026 | Fire in My Heart: Songs of Love
Music that features fire as a metaphor for love, and songs about fire in general. Including Morley’s Fire Fire, Lauridsen’s Madrigali, and music by Dominick DiOrio, Reena Esmail, Darita Seth, and our conductor Edna Yeh.
Spring 2026 | Terra ad Caelum: Songs of Land & Sky
We’ll celebrate Arvo Pärt’s 90th birthday, and sing the West Coast premiere of a work for double choir by Shawn Crouch. Also on the program: a work for choir, marimba, and wine glasses by Ešenvalds, an Irish folk song, a Saami joik, and a 4-movement work about Climate change and the beauty of nature composed for us in 2018 by Swedish composer Karin Rehnqvist.
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