Aiken Choral Society

The Aiken Choral Society, ACS, is a semi-professional community choral group and a member organization of Chorus America that is funded in part by the South Carolina Arts Commission.

The Aiken Choral Society performs two major concert series each year, in the winter around Christmastime, and in late May or early June. The concerts are held in an area church or the Aiken County Historical Museum at Banksia. The focus for Winter concerts is seasonal, holiday music. Spring concerts feature important classical and contemporary music.

ACS also sings at various fund raising and benefit events, including the Aiken Tour of Homes during December.

As Aiken's oldest performing arts organization, ACS performs a wide range of music, from Contemporary to Early Music, and has multiple professional, instrumental and vocal resources at its disposal. The Society has performed, by invitation, as part of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival for more than ten years and in 1992, was selected, by audition to perform with the acclaimed Prague Symphony Orchestra in Prague and Brno, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). We gave Our Lady of the Snows Cathedral in Prague, built in 1347, its first sacred music concert after more than 50 years of Communist domination.

2011–2012

Winter Concert

Friday, December 9, 2011, 7:30 pm
Sunday, December 11, 2011, 4:00 pm Cornerstone Baptist Church
100 Cornerstone Drive, Aiken, SC 29801

The Winter Concert will present Brahms' Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52, which requires one piano and four hands. Our featured pianists will be Mary Losey and Diane Mangiante. The program will be balanced with Chanukah, Christmas, and holiday musical delights.

Concert tickets will be available at the Museum starting on Saturday, December 3, 2011 and at the door. All tickets are $15.00.

Tour of Homes

Saturday, December 10, 2011, 4:00–7:00 pm
Tickets are $15.00
Aiken County Historical Museum, 435 Newberry Street, Aiken, SC, 29802
Or, contact Patricia Carter Hall at acsalto@yahoo.com

Live music and luminaria help set the mood, providing a lyrical background of seasonal carols as you tour each unique and festively decorated home for the 23rd Annual Tour of Homes on the second Saturday of December. The Tour of Homes is the very successful primary fundraising activity of the Choral Society.

Spring Concert

Friday, May 8, 2012, 7:30 pm
Sunday, May 20, 2012, 4:00 pm
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
961 Trail Ridge Road, Aiken, SC 29803

The Spring Concert will present the first performance in Aiken of Hadyn's The Creation. ACS will be collaborating with Dr. Kathleen Cartledge and St. Paul's Lutheran Church choirs to perform this exciting oratorio.Accompaniment will be with chamber orchestra, harpsichord and organ.

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