Cantate’s 2025–2026 Concert Season
Cantate’s 2025-2026 season draws its name from powerful texts our choirs will interpret throughout the year. Ancient manuscripts, classical poetry, and newspaper headlines; canonical masterworks, choral favorites, and a brand-new commission call on us to raise our collective voice for commemoration and celebration, justice, and joy.
Rise
Saturday, May 9, 2026 • 5:00 p.m.
Church of the Epiphany
1317 G St NW, Washington, DC 20005
Our season finale, a collaboration between Cantate Concert Choir and Capital City Symphony, lifts us toward joy and shared humanity. In Beethoven’s iconic Symphony No. 9, we find hope, friendship, and a radiant Ode to Joy. The program opens with beloved choral miniatures by Felix Mendelssohn, Gabriel Fauré, and Ingrid Stölzel that remind us of music’s power to uplift and bring us together. Featuring exceptional vocal soloists including Jennifer Casey Cabot, soprano; Cara Schaefer, mezzo-soprano; Louis Tiemann, tenor; and Jim Williams, bass.
Cantate seeks to maintain an equitable, safe and welcoming environment for all who participate in its various activities and functions, both in-person and virtually. We welcome musicians and volunteers of diverse backgrounds, abilities, and creeds, and strive to create an inclusive and creatively stimulating community. Therefore, discrimination and harassment of any nature will not be tolerated.