Our Next Performance
March 10, 2012, Saturday, 7:30 PM
Madonna della Strada Chapel (venue info)
Loyola University
1032 West Sheridan Road, Chicago
March 11, 2012, Sunday at 3:00 PM
Emmanuel Episcopal Church (venue info)
203 South Kensington Ave, La Grange
This is the Chicago premiere of British composer Gabriel Jackson’s Requiem, an important and mesmerizing new work that combines sections of the traditional Requiem text with poems from other cultures and traditions. Jackson has created a work which embraces a wide-ranging perspective on human mortality. Each movement is given a different character and musical style, and the result is a unique, sublime work which is filled with comfort and peace. The program will include a new work by Maestro Paul French composed for this anniversary season.
Future Performances
Showstoppers and Premieres
Choirs, Organ, Trumpets and Drums
with the Loyola University Chorus & Chamber Singers 
April 28, 2012, Saturday, 7:30 PM
Madonna della Strada Chapel (venue info)
Loyola University
1032 West Sheridan Road, Chicago
April 29, 2012, Sunday at 3:00 PM
Emmanuel Episcopal Church (venue info)
203 South Kensington Ave, La Grange
Our season finale is a sonic spectacular that will bring heaven to earth and raise earth to heaven with glorious music.The world premiere of an early work by William Ferris, his thundering Te Deum, and his roof-raising arrangement of Widor’s famous toccata, Festival Alleluias, anchor a program that also features music of Delius, Hoiby, Sowerby, Poulenc and Mathias.
Past Performances of the Season
Make We Joy
Music Celebrating the Feast of Christmas
December 4, 2011, Sunday, 3:00 PM
Emmanuel Episcopal Church (venue info)
203 South Kensington Ave, La Grange
December 10, 2011, Saturday at 7:30 PM
Madonna della Strada Chapel (venue info)
Loyola University
1032 West Sheridan Road, Chicago
The Chorale’s Christmas concert is a perennial favorite. This year’s edition includes music inspired by Piero Della Francesca’s Nativity, William Ferris’s Make We Joy tells the Christmas story with a colorful cast of characters including singing angels and a forest full of chirping birds all lending their voices to the celebration of the great feast of Christmas. The first half of the program holds noble polyphony and frolicsome carols!
The William Ferris Chorale celebrates its 40th anniversary with a very special event. Join us for a festive blend of food and drink, a knockout silent auction, and the Chorale singing the Beatles!
The William Ferris Chorale has been named 
American Choral Premieres