Cantate Carlisle:
Our accomplished singers represent a diverse group ranging in age from 23 to 80 and are drawn from communities throughout the area. Their unifying factor is a passion for choral singing and a love of fine choral repertoire with its power to renew the soul, expand the mind, and to bring people together. Our hallmark is our thoughtful and eclectic programming which includes choral masterworks with orchestra, a cappella contemporary classics, folk songs, vocal jazz, Broadway arrangements, spirituals, multi-cultural works, and several works commissioned especially for us. Founded in 1990 by Cheryl Parsons, Cantate Carlisle continues under the direction of Michelle DiBona Trefren. We are proud to be the Resident Choir of the Carlisle Theatre.
Calling all young singers
If you love to sing, we’d love to invite you to audition for Cantate Young Voices.
CANTATE means SING in Latin, and that’s what we love to do – SING!
Winter 2023
Eye-to-Eye & Heart-to-Heart
Music to celebrate that when we act heart-to-heart,
we see eye-to-eye.
Music brings us together.
Gather with us to enjoy a musical celebration of compassion, togetherness, and collaboration.
Our performance will bring joy, inspire us, and cause us to celebrate humanity.
Spring 2024
YOLO: Quick, We Have But a Second
Cantate Carlisle and Cantate Young Voices will delight the audience with songs
about the immediacy of life and the joy in seizing the day.
The souls of the just are in the hand of God,
and the torment of death shall not touch them.
In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die;
but they are in peace.
