Madison Choral Project seeks to enrich the lives of those in our community and beyond through the amazing power of humans singing together. 

Madison Choral Project has performed over 50 live concerts in Madison, Milwaukee, and beyond. They specialize in creating immersive and thoughtful concert experiences for each audience member through narrative story, art, text, lecture, and more. Nationally recognized for excellence, they won second place in the American Prize for Choral Music (Professional Division) in 2020.

Whether partnering with high school choirs or leading adult enrichment classes on the aging voice, Madison Choral Project is focused on making great music and teaching others to do the same. The ensemble works with singers of all levels, engage in graduate conducting classes and workshops, and have appeared by invitation at many major choral music conventions.

Madison Choral Project has spent nearly $300,000 employing Wisconsin singers, instrumentalists, conductors, and composers, and are a vital part of the arts economy in Wisconsin. Their musicians have won GRAMMY® awards and sing professionally throughout the country. The ensemble proudly supports the local artists who make their lived experience in Wisconsin a little more beautiful.

As an organization that advocates for new music, Madison Choral Project believes that the choral art is alive, present, and relevant today. They have commissioned and premiered over 30 works, including American and Regional premieres of dozens of additional works.

Albums

Hope Eats You Alive

Release Date: December 13, 2024
Catalog Number: NV6679
21st Century
Vocal Music
Choir
Titled for composer Scott Gendel’s setting of forensic scientist Lori Baker’s spoken grief for those lost at the Mexican-American border, HOPE EATS YOU ALIVE, recorded by the Madison Choral Project, loudly proclaims: “something has to be done.” The graphic and heart-breaking story of Baker’s mission to identify the bodies buried in shallow graves at the border reveals several issues at the center of the immigration debate. Gendel book-ends with the words of Chris van Dyke, who questions if the lines we’ve drawn between each other are worth the lives they’ve taken. HOPE EATS YOU ALIVE includes recordings of four more works by Gendel, some humorous, some warm, some contemplative, but each evoking a common message: love is worth hoping for, even if it eats at you, even if it takes you alive, and loving one another is something we must do as often as possible.