Festival Choir of Madison

06/24/2026

05/27/2026

🧠Rehersal wisdom with Sergei🧠
Our incredible artistic director, Sergei Pavlov, shares nuggets of wisdom like this in our rehearsals. This is so helpful to us as we develop our concert repertoire for context, artistic practice, and general understanding and appreciation for the works we sing!
Join us for a special pre-concert talk with Artistic Director Sergei Pavlov, to learn more about the history of Haydn’s works. After a brief intermission, the concert will follow.
This is a great opportunity to gain a richer understanding of these wonderfully complex and nuanced works!
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05/23/2026

🎼✨Soloist Spotlight Saturday!✨🎶
Meet Julia Rottmayer, soprano, who rounds out our cast of soloists to portray Gabriel and Eva in our upcoming performance of Haydn’s “The Creation.” We have our rehearsals this week to polish the fine details and bring this work together. We are very excited to bring this work to you with all of our soloists in one week’s time!
Join us on May 30, 2026, to experience the awe and majesty of Joseph Haydn’s masterful oratorio, ‘The Creation’, at Festival Choir’s finale concert for the 2025-2026 season.

Performed with the traditional English libretto (originally written for Georg Handel), ‘The Creation’ presents the biblical Genesis story with choir, soloists, and chamber orchestra.

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05/16/2026

🎼✨Soloist Spotlight Saturday!✨🎶
Meet Jacob Zehr, tenor, who will portray Uriel in our upcoming performance of Haydn’s “The Creation.” We have one more soloist to introduce in our final installment next week as we lead up to our performance on May 30!
Join us on May 30, 2026, to experience the awe and majesty of Joseph Haydn’s masterful oratorio, ‘The Creation’, at Festival Choir’s finale concert for the 2025-2026 season.

Performed with the traditional English libretto (originally written for Georg Handel), ‘The Creation’ presents the biblical Genesis story with choir, soloists, and chamber orchestra.

See the link in our bio for ticketing information!

05/12/2026

📣Special announcement!📣
Join us for a special pre-concert talk with Artistic Director Sergei Pavlov, to learn more about the history of Haydn’s works. After a brief intermission, the concert will follow.
This is a great opportunity to gain a richer understanding of these wonderfully complex and nuanced works!
See the link in our bio for ticketing information!

05/09/2026

🎼✨Soloist Spotlight Saturday!✨🎶
In the beginning:
Meet Anne Horjus, bass-baritone, who will portray Raphael and Adam in our upcoming performance of Haydn’s “The Creation.” We are delighted to perform this work with Anne and our other soloists. Stay tuned to meet them as we lead up to our performance on May 30!
Join us on May 30, 2026, to experience the awe and majesty of Joseph Haydn’s masterful oratorio, ‘The Creation’, at Festival Choir’s finale concert for the 2025-2026 season.

Performed with the traditional English libretto (originally written for Georg Handel), ‘The Creation’ presents the biblical Genesis story with choir, soloists, and chamber orchestra.

See the link in our bio for ticketing information!

05/05/2026

📣Season finale concert announcement!📣
Join us on May 30, 2026, to experience the awe and majesty of Joseph Haydn’s masterful oratorio, ‘The Creation’, at Festival Choir’s finale concert for the 2025-2026 season.

Featuring:
Julia Rottmayer, Soprano (Gabriel, Eva)
Jacob Zehr, Tenor (Uriel)
Anne Horjus, Bass-Baritone (Raphael, Adam)

Performed with the traditional English libretto (originally written for Georg Handel), ‘The Creation’ presents the biblical Genesis story with choir, soloists, and chamber orchestra.

See the link in our bio for ticketing information!