Virginia Women's Chorus

Club Description

The Virginia Women’s Chorus is committed to excellence in the performance of classical, contemporary and diverse music from the challenging choral literature for women’s voices. The Chorus seeks to inspire and enrich others through the choral art form.The Chorus is unique in that it is a student-run organization with a hired professional conductor. It is comprised of undergraduate and graduate students from numerous degree programs. Several singers from the Charlottesville community have participated in the Chorus as well.The Chorus meets for rehearsal twice a week, on Mondays and Wednesdays. Our programming includes the Candlelight Concert series in the fall semester, an annual spring concert, and the Women Against Violence benefit concert, as well as performance gigs around the university and wider Charlottesville. Auditions are held at the beginning of each semester and consist of a voice quality and range check, singing scales a cappella, singing back pitches, and a few short sight-reading passages. Sight-reading is not a determining factor.VWC is affiliated with the University of Virginia Department of Music. Although this organization has members who are University of Virginia students and may have University employees associated or engaged in its activities and affairs, the organization is not a part of or an agency of the University. It is a separate and independent organization which is responsible for and manages its own activities and affairs. The University does not direct, supervise or control the organization and is not responsible for the organization’s contracts, acts or omissions.VWC does not restrict its membership, programs, or activities on the basis of age, color, disability, gender identity, marital status, military status (which includes active-duty members, reserve service members and dependents), national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, and family or genetic information absent an approved petition restrict.