PERFORMANCES
Upcoming public performances
Select choristers will perform in San Diego Opera’s productions of Carmen.
Friday, March 27th @ 7:30pm
Saturday, March 28th @ 7:30pm
Sunday, March 29th @ 2:00pm
San Diego Civic Theater
Members of SDCC perform with SD Symphony and SD Master Chorale for the Annual Tradition at the Rady Shell.
Friday, December 19th @ 7:30pm
Saturday, Decmeber 20th @ 6pm
Sunday, December 21st @ 6pm
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Members of the Preparatory and Apprentice Choir perform in this fun holiday tradition in Old Poway Park and Railroad.
36th Annual Winter Concerts at the First United Methodist Church of San Diego
1:30pm - Preparatory, Youth Chorale, Premier and Chamber Choirs)
5pm - Apprentice, Intermediate, Premier and Chamber Choirs)
Experience the magic of the season at the San Diego Children’s Choir’s 36th Annual Winter Concert & Sing-Along, a cherished holiday tradition that will lift your spirits and warm your heart! Join us on Saturday, December 6, 2025, at 1:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. at First United Methodist Church Mission Valley for an uplifting performance featuring more than 300 young singers, ages 6 to 18.
This year’s program blends beloved holiday classics with global choral gems, showcasing the artistry and spirit of San Diego’s finest young voices. Enjoy festive favorites and contemporary works performed in multiple languages, culminating in a joyful community sing-along of “The 12 Days of Christmas” and “Auld Lang Syne.”
Celebrate the season with SDCC and experience the harmony, passion, and joy of youth in song. Create lasting holiday memories with family and friends.
Online Silent Auction: Bid, Give, and Celebrate!
SDCC is thrilled to host its Winter Concert Silent Auction in celebration of 35 years of enriching children’s lives through song. Explore an exciting selection of getaway stays, attraction tickets, dining experiences, and exclusive performances.
Anyone can participate; concert attendance is not required. Proceeds support SDCC’s music education and scholarship programs. Please share with your network.
ONLINE BIDDING GOES LIVE MONDAY, December 1, at 9AM. BIDDING ENDS SATURDAY, December 6, at 9PM. AUCTION LINK
ITEMS INCLUDE:
VIP San Diego Opera Experience, overnight stay with meal and massage at Sycuan Casino and Resort, Disneyland tickets, Dermatology consultative services with Michelle Pelle, M.D., a private wine class for up to 20, 3-night's stay in Newport Beach vacation condo, overnight stay at Harrah's Resort & Casino, bowling party at East Village Tavern and Bowl, SDFD Fire Station Dinner for 6, Mt. Helix Foundation Food & Wine Event tickets and basket, tickets to arts performances at Mainly Mozart, La Jolla Music Society, Cygnet Theatre, Old Globe Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Bach Collegium, San Diego Civic Youth Ballet, and admissions to San Diego Zoo, Sea World, Japanese Friendship Garden, Belmont Park, Living Coast Discovery Center, San Diego Museum of Art, a Padres game, voice lessons with Katina Mitchell, wine packages, and dozens more!
IN-KIND DONORS
Presented in partnership with the Spreckels Organ Society. Members of the Preparatory, Intermediate and Premier choirs perform holiday sing-along songs with Adam Ferrara, SDCC’s principal collaborative pianist, on the organ.
Spreckels Organ Pavillion, Balboa Park
FREE and open to the public
FREE Joint concert with SDSU, MMHS and SDCC Youth Chorale
hosted by Mira Mesa HS
6:30PM
at Lincoln High School
Members of our Apprentice Choir sing the National Anthem at the Pechanga Arena to kick off the San Diego Gulls vs Colorado Eagles ice hockey game.
Learn more and purchase tickets here.
San Diego Master Chorale’s 65th Anniversary Season opens with ECHOES — a concert that blends traditions of remembrance and celebration.
This performance will feature SDCC’s Chamber Choir.
November 1, 4pm @ St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral 2728 Sixth Ave., San Diego
November 2 at 4pm @ San Dieguito United Methodist Church 170 Calle Magdalena, Encinitas
Learn more and purchase tickets here.
10/31, 1:30 pm, Del Mar Racetrack
A small group of SDCC choristers are singing "I Wish" by Ken Frierich in the Winner's Circle prior to the Day 1 races of the Breeder's Cup
Performance Sponsor: Ken Freirich
Select members of SDCC will perform with San Diego Opera in their performance of Pagliacci.
Friday, October 31st @ 7:30pm
Saturday, November 1st @ 7:30pm
Sunday, November 2nd @ 2pm
at the San Diego Civic Theatre. Learn more and purchase tickets here.
Select SDCC members perform with the San Diego Symphony for the performances of French Fairytales: Ravel and Debussy
Friday Oct 3rd @ 7:30pm
Sunday October 5th @ 2:00pm
Jacobs Music Center
A celebration of our chorister’s tour to NYC this summer.
Concert Underwriters: John & Annasue Wilson
Parking: Parking is free on Sundays at USD. Please see the attached map for suggested lots near the theatre. We recommend the Medium Lots or Street Parking on the east side of campus for the most convenient access.
Performance presented by MidAmerica Productions
New England Symphonic Ensemble marks their final Carnegie Hall performance for the 2025 MidAmerica Productions’ season with Sherry Blevins conducting her work Tipping Point: A Choral Suite on Climate Change. Clement Cano leads the choir and orchestra in Elaine Hagenberg’s Illuminare. Laurier Fagnan closes the program with Mozart’s Requiem, K. 626, completed and edited by Robert Levin. The performance features participating choirs from around the country, including choristers on tour with the San Diego Children’s Choir.
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Join San Diego Children's Choir friends, family, and supporters as the Choir performs the National Anthem before the Padres take on the Royals! As part of one of our major fundraisers of the year, a block of Right Field Lower and Upper Level seats is reserved for the Choir community.
Tickets will be available to everyone and go on sale in early April.
35th Annual Spring Concert: Honoring the Past. Celebrating the Future.
All Choirs
Jacobs Music Center
Celebrate 35 years of musical excellence with us! Our special anniversary concert will feature more than 300 talented young voices, as they showcase a dynamic repertoire, from classic to contemporary works, in a variety of languages. We'll also join in celebration of our founder, Polly Campbell, with a special, commissioned piece to honor her legacy. Join us and experience both the rich history and bright future of the San Diego Children's Choir in an inspiring afternoon of music, culture, and community!
Ode to Nature: Payare Conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 – San Diego Symphony
Premier Choir and select Intermediate Choir members
Jacobs Music Center
Friday, May 23 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, May 24 at 7:30 PM
Sunday, May 25 at 4:00 PM
Written over the course of three years, Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 is a monumental two-part declaration of faith that reveals the composer’s wide-ranging influences, from folk song to mythology and philosophy. This vastly expansive work is Mahler’s ode to nature, progressing in ever wider circles from the intimacy of flowers and meadows, to a colossal vision of humanity, and the splendor of the cosmos and its Creator. Perhaps no other symphony of Mahler’s so well embodies his famous declaration to Sibelius, in Sibelius’s own account:
"Die Symphonie muss sein wie die Welt, Sie muss alles umfassen."
("A symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.")
World-renowned mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill will make her San Diego Symphony debut, conducted by Music Director Rafael Payare, for these final concerts of this historic season.
Concert 1 (Pavilion Main Stage): 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Concert 2 (Walking & Singing in the Fields): 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Guests at the Carlsbad Flower Fields can enjoy performances by the Apprentice Choir during their day-long Mini-tour. The performances are free to attend, but general admission tickets to the Flower Fields are required and can be purchased here.
5704 Paseo Del Norte, Carlsbad, CA 92008
FREE PERFORMANCE: Enjoy a performance by three choir levels of the San Diego Children’s Choir as part of St. Mark’s United Methodist Church’s 2024-25 concert series. The community concert will take place in the St. Mark’s Sanctuary and will also be available via live streaming on YouTube.
This is a FREE concert, donations welcome. Learn more here.
March 15th at 7:30 pm
March 16th at 2:00 pm
Mandeville Auditorium, UCSD
Our Premier Choir joins the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus in the final piece of the concert, John Adams's profound and reflective masterpiece, "On the Transmigration of Souls," written in the year following the September 11 attacks in New York City. This will be the first time the work has been performed in San Diego.
Winter Concert at San Rafael Parish with several community choirs including our Intermediate Choir.
Concert is FREE and it begins at 4:00pm.
This FREE event is an old-fashioned holiday tradition that will take you back in time with caroling, live music (SDCC choirs!), visits with Santa, tree lighting, free children’s crafts, petting zoo, gingerbread decorating, model train displays, and so much more! Purchase tasty holiday treats, finish your Christmas shopping at the craft boutique, or board the Poway Midland Railroad for a night-time ride around the park. See the attached pdf flyer for more about this special night!
Select Apprentice and Preparatory choristers will perform 4:30.
Featuring Premier Choir
Premier Choir is once again joining the San Diego Symphony and San Diego Master Chorale on the triumphant return to the Jacob’s Music Center main stage of the holiday series, Noel Noel.
The concert will be led for the third year running by the artistic tour-de-force team consisting of celebrated guest conductor Christopher Dragon and director Jonathan Gilmer, and it features the return of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra and the San Diego Children’s Choir.
Click on the following dates below for tickets.
Featuring Chamber and Youth Chorale
Chamber and Youth Chorale perform from 7:00-7:30 PM, then two, short, silent films (see below) are accompanied by live theater organ with an audience sing-along between the two films.
Join us for a merry event featuring TWO famous silent films! In Cops (1922), a young man played by megastar Buster Keaton repeatedly falls foul of the city's police department, despite his best intentions. He spends the film trying to woo his beloved while on the run, with a trail of hijinks in his wake. The film was added to the United States National Film Registry in 1997. Its induction essay, written by Randy Haberkamp, Cops is praised as "the perfect introduction to the joys of silent film?s unique visual storytelling." Big Business (1929) is a Christmas film starring the famous comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The two play Christmas tree salesmen who engage in a comedic, if destructive, back-and-forth with a local homeowner who refuses to purchase a tree. The film was added to the United States National Film Registry in 1992, the year producer Hal Roach turned 100 years old.
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Featuring all Choirs
35th Annual Winter Concert
Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, Baker Baum Concert Hall
Two concerts:
3:00 PM - Featuring Preparatory, Intermediate, Premier and Chamber Choirs
6:30 PM - Featuring Apprentice, Youth Chorale, Premier and Chamber Choirs
Featuring Apprentice Choir
Members of Apprentice Choir Sing the National Anthem on the ice before a San Diego Gulls Game.
Game time is at 5:00 PM
Purchase tickets here.
Featuring Premier Choir
GRAMMY winner Aoife O’Donovan celebrates democracy and womanhood on her new solo album, All My Friends. The 9-song collection is inspired by the passage of the 19th amendment and the evolving landscape of women’s rights in America over the past century. She artfully draws on speeches and letters by Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Voters, to write intricately filigreed new, original songs infused with modern viewpoint. The 2022 Folk Alliance International Song of the Year winner, who was last seen at ArtPower in 2022, is joined by La Jolla Symphony and Chorus and Premier Choir of the San Diego Children’s Choir.
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Featuring Apprentice Choir
Join us for a spectacular day of music and community at the newly renovated Jacobs Music Center! On Sunday, September 29, from 11am to 6pm, the San Diego Symphony will host a FREE, open-house celebration featuring live performances, delicious food, and engaging activities.
Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of a vibrant community celebration, experiencing some of the best of San Diego's musical talent in a stunning, newly renovated venue. Reserve your free tickets today and mark your calendar for a day of unforgettable music and fun!
This event starts at 11am but the Apprentice choir will perform during the 2pm block.
Click HERE to make a reservation.
Looking for a musical experience that will lift your spirits? Don’t miss the inaugural San Diego Youth Choral Festival Concert! This incredible showcase will feature eight youth choirs from around the country performing a diverse repertoire, including music from Mexico and Central America, as well as the world premiere of a brand new piece by acclaimed Mexican composer, Maria Granillo. This concert is the grand finale of a week-long festival that has united over 210 incredibly talented young singers in song. The soaring voices and infectious energy of these middle and high school choirs will be an unforgettable musical experience.
Performing Choirs:
Boston Children’s Chorus, ChildrenSong of New Jersey, Encore Music Academy (IL), Honors Choirs of Southeast Minnesota, Ragazzi Boys Chorus (CA), Rainier Youth Choirs (WA), South Shore Children’s Chorus (MA) and choristers from our San Diego Children’s Choir."
Attend the Sunday Organ Concert at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion, the largest outdoor organ in the world. Raúl Preito Ramirez's weekly organ concert at 2:00 PM features the Festival Chorus in the penultimate concert of the festival experience, featuring works by Central American Composers.
Come see the Padres play the Arizona Diamondbacks!
Be sure to arrive early, because the San Diego Children’s Choir will take the field prior to the start of the game to sing the National Anthem!
Tickets available for purchase through SDCC soon.
