An integral part of the Tyler’s musical landscape for over five decades, the Tyler Civic Chorale aims to present a wide variety of choral music through high quality performances for the enjoyment and education of East Texas audiences. Over the course of its history, the Chorale has sung requiems by Brahms, Mozart, Duruflé, and Faure, as well as Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, and dozens of other masses, motets, cantatas, and oratorios.
Each year the Tyler Civic Chorale presents four to five concerts, as well as various guest appearances in the community. The 2022-2023 season begins in collaboration with the A Cappella Choir of Stephen F. Austin State University performing Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem. We continue in December with a Winter Wonderland celebration. On Valentine’s Day 2023, we celebrate with a musical soirée. The season concludes with Karl Jenkin’s The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace.
Do you enjoy singing? The Tyler Civic Chorale wants to hear you! A brief, 10-minute session with the artistic director is all it takes to audition for the Tyler Civic Chorale. Auditions are held in late August before the first rehearsal, but entry into the chorale is also possible at the end of each concert cycle.
Explore our history as an integral part of the musical landscape of Tyler.