Missouri State Grand Chorus

Grand Chorus represents the combined choirs at Missouri State (Chorale, Men’s Chorus, Women’s Chorus,  and Choral Union)

Each year, Grand Chorus collaborates with the University Symphony Orchestra and presents the President's Concert.

In 2016, the Grand Chorus and Symphony Orchestra performed Mozart’s "Requiem" and Francis Poulenc’s "Gloria" at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts (Kansas City, Missouri).

Other works performed by the Grand Chorus include Orff’s "Carmina Burana", Verdi’s "Requiem", Poulenc’s "Gloria", and Beethoven’s "Symphony No. 9".

Grand Chorus performing at the President's Concert in 2024.

 

President's Concert Masterworks History

 

  • “The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci”, Jocelyn Hagen and “I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes”, Adolphus Hailstork (2025)
  • "Lord Nelson Mass", Joseph Haydn and "Out of This Darkness", John Wykoff (2024)
  • "A Sea Symphony", Ralph Vaughan Williams (2023)
  • "Carmina Burana", Carl Orff (2022)
  • "Symphony No. 9", Ludwig Van Beethoven (2019)
  • "Paukenmesse", Joseph Haydn and "Chichester Psalms", Leonard Bernstein (2018)
  • "Avodath HaKodesh", Ernest Bloch (2017)
  • "Gloria", Poulenc and "Requiem", W. A. Mozart (2016)
  • "Requiem", Guiseppe Verdi (2015)
  • "Ein Deutsches Requiem", Johannes Brahms (2014)
  • "Te Deum", Anton Bruckner and "Belshazzar’s Feast", William Walton (2013)
  • "The Creation", Joseph Haydn (2012)
  • "Te Deum", Hector Berlioz (2011)
  • "Elijah", Felix Mendelssohn (2010)
  • "A Sea Symphony", Ralph Vaughan Williams (2009)
  • "Missa Solemnis", Ludwig Van Beethoven (2008)
  • "Symphony No. 8", Gustav Mahler (2007)
  • "Mass in C minor", W. A. Mozart (2006)
  • "Requiem", Hector Berlioz (2005)
  • "Testament of Freedom", Randall Thompson and "Carmina Burana", Carl Orff (2004)
  • "Ghazal", John Prescott, "Nänie", Johannes Brahms, and "Alexander Nevsky", Sergei Prokofiev (2003) 
  • "Dixit Dominus", G. F. Handel and "Requiem", Maurice Duruflé (2002)
  • "Requiem", Guiseppe Verdi (2001)
  • "Ein Deutsches Requiem", Johannes Brahms (2000)
  • "Chichester Psalms", Leonard Bernstein and "Belshazzar’s Feast", William Walton (1999)
  • "Mass in B Minor", J.S. Bach (1998)
  • "Carmina Burana", Carl Orff (1997)
  • "War Requiem", Benjamin Britten (1996)