The new San Fernando Valley Master Chorale had its debut concert in June of 1999. Their stirring performance of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana and Verdi’s Requiem were enthusiastically received with standing ovations. The Chorale represents membership from fifteen local choral organizations with 80-100 singers participating. The San Fernando Valley Master Chorale offers a three-concert season, and have performed Respighi’s Laud to the Nativity and Handel’s Messiah, David Fanshawe’s African Sanctus, P.D.Q. Bach’s Oedipus Tex, and the Brahms Requiem. They were honored with an invitation to perform the Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem for the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre’s 2003 season. In June of 2005 they joined Mr. Danne as he directed an orchestra and chorus of 175 singers in a performance of the Requiem by John Rutter at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
