Support the Choral Society of Durham
Our donors make our performances possible
Because of you, CSD is able to sing!
In 2023-2024 the Choral Society of Durham performed multiple times, in a variety of venues, featuring composers from different traditions. We gave a free concert at Carol Woods; performed in non-traditional spaces such as at the Downtown Durham Holiday Tree Lighting, CenterFest arts festival and EnoFest; recorded our annual free outreach concert; filled Duke Chapel in December and Baldwin Auditorium in May; and hosted the first-ever Community Sing, featuring 310 singers. Our encore concert of From Brokenness
Toward Hope: A Musical Offering (gospel mass and spirituals) was a benefit for Open Table Ministries, which provides services to the unhoused in Durham.
All of these align with our goal to share the joy of choral music beyond traditional concert settings; our outreach concerts are seen in nursing homes, prisons, and schools.
Thank you for all you did during this past year in support of the Choral Society of Durham. Because of you, we were able to sing!
2024-2025: Another year of innovation
We have an exciting season planned, starting July 1. Our annual Summer Sing provides the chance for any singer, whether a member of CSD or not, to sing through our planned program for the entire year. We’ll be sight-singing together music by Daniel Pinkham, Conrad Susa, and Gerald Finzi, a jazz mass by Bob Chilcott, and Beethoven’s mighty Missa Solemnis. We’ll be taking our popular outreach concert to Carolina Meadows before distributing it on our YouTube channel in November. In addition to a jazz concert in March, our Chamber Choir will perform in April. Following on the thrilling debut of the Durham Community Sing, we’ll be returning to downtown Durham at the end of May for the second annual gathering of area choirs and singers unaffiliated with any chorus, who just want to sing together.
Woven through all we do: The Community Collaboration Fund.
The Community Collaboration Fund is an endowment from which we draw, and to which donors may contribute, each year. Our CCF allows us to bring diverse works to diverse audiences in diverse venues, and to collaborate with other local arts organizations. For instance, in 2023-2024, we worked with the Durham Symphony Orchestra, Durham Children’s Choir, and the Little River Elementary School chorus, not to mention eight other area choruses who participated in the first annual Durham Community Sing.
Your donation to the CCF will help ensure us a bright, collaborative future! The proceeds from this endowment will fund specific projects each year to aid CSD’s community-building mission:
In 2023-2024 the Choral Society of Durham performed multiple times, in a variety of venues, featuring composers from different traditions. We gave a free concert at Carol Woods; performed in non-traditional spaces such as at the Downtown Durham Holiday Tree Lighting, CenterFest arts festival and EnoFest; recorded our annual free outreach concert; filled Duke Chapel in December and Baldwin Auditorium in May; and hosted the first-ever Community Sing, featuring 310 singers. Our encore concert of From Brokenness
Toward Hope: A Musical Offering (gospel mass and spirituals) was a benefit for Open Table Ministries, which provides services to the unhoused in Durham.
All of these align with our goal to share the joy of choral music beyond traditional concert settings; our outreach concerts are seen in nursing homes, prisons, and schools.
Thank you for all you did during this past year in support of the Choral Society of Durham. Because of you, we were able to sing!
2024-2025: Another year of innovation
We have an exciting season planned, starting July 1. Our annual Summer Sing provides the chance for any singer, whether a member of CSD or not, to sing through our planned program for the entire year. We’ll be sight-singing together music by Daniel Pinkham, Conrad Susa, and Gerald Finzi, a jazz mass by Bob Chilcott, and Beethoven’s mighty Missa Solemnis. We’ll be taking our popular outreach concert to Carolina Meadows before distributing it on our YouTube channel in November. In addition to a jazz concert in March, our Chamber Choir will perform in April. Following on the thrilling debut of the Durham Community Sing, we’ll be returning to downtown Durham at the end of May for the second annual gathering of area choirs and singers unaffiliated with any chorus, who just want to sing together.
Woven through all we do: The Community Collaboration Fund.
The Community Collaboration Fund is an endowment from which we draw, and to which donors may contribute, each year. Our CCF allows us to bring diverse works to diverse audiences in diverse venues, and to collaborate with other local arts organizations. For instance, in 2023-2024, we worked with the Durham Symphony Orchestra, Durham Children’s Choir, and the Little River Elementary School chorus, not to mention eight other area choruses who participated in the first annual Durham Community Sing.
Your donation to the CCF will help ensure us a bright, collaborative future! The proceeds from this endowment will fund specific projects each year to aid CSD’s community-building mission:
To strengthen our community by engaging with the rich diversity of its people and building transformative connections as a force for unity.
Please consider supporting CSD with a gift to our 2024-2025 operating fund, our Community Collaboration Fund — or both! Click here. Questions? Please contact our Development Chair.
If you choose to make quarterly or monthly donations, you will be recognized and receive benefits at the Friend level equal to the value of a full 12-months of your pledge (e.g. $21/month = $252/year and receives recognition and benefits at the CSD Patron level).
All donors receive the tax benefit of giving to a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization.
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You can donate online or mail your donation to: Choral Society of Durham, P.O. Box 72182, Durham, NC 27722. Thank you for your support! |
Financial information about this organization and a copy of its license are available from the State Solicitation Licensing Branch at (919) 814-5400. The license is not an endorsement by the State.
