The MIT Concert Choir

The MIT Concert Choir is a choral group, open by audition to both graduate and undergraduate students, and to members of the MIT community. The Concert Choir works to create an environment where student singers can learn, perform, and contribute to the MIT musical community. By bringing together singers in a social, academic, and performance atmosphere, we hope to expose the MIT community to a wide range of choral music literature and history. Concert Choir can also be taken for credit as 21M.401.

As MIT’s large student chorus, the Concert Choir performs major works from the standard repertoire each semester, as well as a variety of shorter and lesser-known pieces. The Choir has a rich history originating with the all-male Glee Club in 1884 and continuing with the MIT Choral Society from 1923 until the formation of the Concert Choir under John Oliver in 1989. William Cutter, who came to MIT in 1990 as John Oliver’s assistant and rehearsal pianist, assumed the direction of MIT’s choral program upon Mr. Oliver’s departure in 1996.

In recent years, the Concert Choir has toured in Budapest, Vienna, Lausanne, and Spain, and performed in numerous collaborations with the smaller MIT Chamber Chorus, the MIT Symphony Orchestra, the MIT Wind Ensemble, the choirs of Brown, Tufts and Brandeis Universities, and the orchestras of Tufts University and Wellesley College. In 2002, the MIT Concert Choir was invited to perform with the Boston Pops under Keith Lockhart for MIT’s Tech Night at the Pops. In 2017, the it collaborated with Jacob Collier for a performance, and will be doing so again in the future. Often featuring the finest guest soloists along with student soloists, the student singers of the group regularly expose the MIT community to a wide range of choral music literature.

Our course page on the Music Department’s website is here. We are listed in the MIT course catalog here.

We are also an ASA group. The Concert Choir Students Association constitution is here.