Spanning 500 years

Our Music

Sacred polyphony. American spirituals. Contemporary works by living composers. Mastersingers USA has been performing this repertoire - in cathedrals, concert halls, and country churches across Europe and the United States for thirty years. Listen below.

Sacred Works

The core of our repertoire. Renaissance masses and motets - Palestrina, Victoria, Bruckner performed in the spaces they were written for. These are pieces we've sung in European cathedrals and returned to year after year.

O Bone Jesu
Manolo Da Rolde
Missa Brevis - Kyrie
Denis Bédard

Contemporary Works

Alongside the Renaissance repertoire, Kerry programs works from the 20th and 21st centuries - pieces that bring a different harmonic language and keep the sound of the group from becoming purely historical. Some are sacred, some are not. All of them require the same commitment to craft as anything written four centuries ago.

All That Hath Life & Breath Praise Ye the Lord
René Clausen arr: Robert Scholz
He Never Failed Me Yet
Robert Ray, TTBB by Keith Christopher
Glory, Glory Hallelujah
Adapted and Arranged by Howard Helvey

Spirituals & Folk Songs

Not everything we sing is sacred. Our spirituals can drop to a whisper and then knock you back in your seat. The folk songs - from a dozen different countries - bring humor, percussion, and occasionally instruments you wouldn't expect in a choral concert. These are the pieces that tend to get the biggest reactions from audiences, and the ones members request year after year.

My Lord What a Mornin'
Feno Heath
Soon Ah Will Be Done
William L. Dawson
Kro Kro, Hinh Hinh! (Kente Weaver's Song)
Leonard de Pour (collected, arranged)
Somebody's Calling My Name
Wendall Whalum

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