2026 – 2027 SEASON IS ON!
Join us for our 61st Season
Experience the beauty, artistry, and passion of Northwest Choral Society’s 2025-26 Concert Season as we present three programs that are sure to nourish your soul and lift your spirit! On November 8, we’ll present “A Feast of Psalms”, that explores the Book of Psalms. December 20, we’ll present our annual offering of “A Northwest Christmas”, featuring carols, favorite choral music of the season, and an audience sing-along. On May 2, we’ll conclude our concert season with “Reincarnations” a program of choral masterworks which explores the ways in which music can seem to defy the passage time. We hope you’ll join us for one or all of these concerts in this, our 61st season!
Current Season
A Feast of Psalms
Date: November 8, 2026 Time: 4:00 pmTrinity Lutheran Church
675 E Algonquin Rd. Des Plaines, IL 60016
NWCS opens our 2026-27 Concert Season with a program that explores texts from the Book of Psalms – timeless, evocative, prayerful poetic writings which have been a beloved source of inspiration for people of all backgrounds and faith traditions for millennia. We’ll hear music created over four centuries ago by composers like William Byrd and Palestrina, alongside music crafted by master composers of our own time like Caroline Shaw and James MacMillan. We’ll hear American composer Charles Ives’s monumental setting of Psalm… Continue reading A Feast of Psalms
A Northwest Christmas
Date: December 20, 2026 Time: 4:00 pmSt. Raymond de Penafort Church
Lincoln Street and Elmhurst Ave, Mount Prospect, IL 60056
A yearly tradition – join us to celebrate Christmas with Northwest Choral Society! Hear old favorites alongside choral gems of the season, including opportunities to sing your favorite carols along with us – and don’t miss our famous Christmas Bake Sale!
Reincarnations
Date: May 2, 2027 Time: 4:00 pmTBA
NWCS completes its 2026-27 Concert Season with “Reincarnations”, a program of choral masterworks which explores the ways in which music can seem to defy the passage of time. At the heart of the program is Samuel Barber’s “Reincarnations” – a three-movement work for unaccompanied chorus composed between 1939 and 1940 which sets to music words of the Irish poet Anthony Raftery, who lived about a century prior and was himself said… Continue reading Reincarnations