Our Performances

Our 2024-2025 Concert Season

The Oratorio Society is pleased to announce our performance plans for the coming season. Bring your family and invite your friends!

December 21, 2024

2:30 & 7:30 p.m. at The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Charlottesville

Christmas at The Paramount

This holiday favorite on the Downtown Mall has become a community tradition in Charlottesville. This year’s program will feature Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols with harp along with a variety of arrangements of holiday favorites for everyone to enjoy!

One of The Oratorio Society’s favorite holiday concert traditions is having a local youth choir or music group join us onstage for part of each concert. This year we’ll enjoy the Regents School Cantorum singers join us for the 2:30 concert and Voces Laetae, a community youth chorus led by Will Cooke, will join us at 7:30.

Can’t make it in person? We plan to offer a Livestream again this year for the 7:30 p.m. performance. Click below to purchase Individual, Couple, or Family level access! A link will be emailed to you at 5:00 p.m. on the day of the concert.

March 15, 2025

10:00 a.m. Workshop & 4:00 p.m. Concert at First Presbyterian Church, 500 Park St., Charlottesville

Together in Song: Music & Poetry

to benefit:

The Oratorio Society of Virginia is dedicated to harnessing the transformative power of music to inspire, connect, and uplift our community. As part of this mission, our annual benefit event, Together in Song, serves as a celebration of choral artistry and a testament to the meaningful relationships music can help create. This event goes beyond performance—it’s an opportunity to connect with and give back to our community by supporting local organizations making a difference.

Community members are invited to participate in a choral workshop with Music Director Michael Slon in the morning, and then join The Oratorio Society singers onstage for the performance in the afternoon. This year’s program will feature Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs as well as other works by a variety of composers including Rosephanye Powell, Libby Larsen, and Morten Lauridsen.

Each year, we partner with a non-profit organization that aligns with our vision of positive change. In 2024, we were proud to support the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia, and the year before that, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville. For 2025, we are thrilled to announce that Literacy Volunteers of Charlottesville/Albemarle (LCVA) will be the beneficiary of Together in Song. LCVA's dedication to empowering individuals through literacy reflects the same values of growth, enrichment, and transformation that guide our work as a performing arts organization.

To support LCVA, donations will be collected at the door, and a portion of the event's ticket sales will be donated to further their mission. By coming together in song, we aim to amplify both the joy of music and the profound impact of community service. Join us for this special event, and let’s make a difference—together.

May 11, 2025

3:30 p.m. at Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia

Bach’s Mass in B minor

Check back soon for more information regarding this production and much more!