Let Our Love Be Heard
Dear friends of and listeners to the South Holland Master Chorale:
Thank you for supporting our Chorale with your applause and donations! We will soon be announcing our our new season of concerts, which take place in October, November/December, and May. Our concerts are FREE and offer a wide variety of themes and experiences. We treasure the opportunity to enrich your life through our voices, spirit, and dedication to excellence. We hope to see you at our next event.
If you are a singer looking for a new home for your voice, check us out, and come to a rehearsal. Our website offers information for new members, patrons, and audience members. We hope you find this information informative and enlightening as to our cause and mission: “to use musical performance and innovative community collaboration to inspire, connect and educate, enhancing the quality of life for all.”
Our broadly diverse and welcoming chorus invites all to experience the power of the human voice. There is nothing like it!
– Philip Bauman
Come Join Us! – New Member Info
We are entering a NEW season of chorus recruitment. If you’ve attended one of our concerts and thought “I’d like to try that,” now is the time. If you love to sing and want to be part of nurturing, caring, supportive vocal family, now is the time to sign up.
We are a non-auditioned vocal ensemble that provides solo opportunities to our members. We promote soloists from within so if you have the talent and desire to stand in front, there could be a place for you.
Please let us know of your interest by sending us a quick note, or fill out our Registration Form in (PDF) or (Word) format.
Rehearsals
Rehearsals take place on Monday evenings at the Calvary United Protestant Church, 425 N Orchard Dr, Park Forest, IL 60466.
We ask that you register with us so we can provide you with music and other important information. If you’re ready to sign up please fill out our Registration Form in (PDF) or (Word) format and mail it to the address indicated on the form. If this is a last-minute submission you can email it to us. If you have questions, give us a call 708-210-2913
I hope you will join us on our NEW adventure as we celebrate great choral singing in the Southland and Northwest Indiana.
Philip Bauman, Director
Learn more about me!
Philip Bauman, Music Director
Our Next Concert
Celebrate, Reflect and Dream
Sunday, October 4, 4pm
Thorn Creek Reformed Church
1875 E. 170th St.
South Holland, IL 60473
Sunday, October 11, 4pm
St. John Neumann
17951 Dixie Highway
Homewood, IL 60430
Our 2026-27 Season
Let Our Love Be Heard
Celebrate, Reflect and Dream
October 4, 2026 4pm
Thorn Creek Reformed Church
1875 E. 170th St., South Holland, IL 60473
October 11, 2026 4pm
St. John Neumann, Homewood
17951 Dixie Hwy, Homewood, IL 60430
Come prepared to Celebrate, Reflect and Dream.
Holiday Joy & Fanfare
November 29, 2026 4pm
Christ Our Savior Parish, South Holland
880 E. 154th St, South Holland, IL 60473
December 6, 2026 4pm
St. John Neumann, Homewood, IL
17951 Dixie Highway, Homewood, IL 60430
The Master Chorale celebrates Christmas with the Chicago Classic Brass and organist Mark Sudeith.
Light Will Triumph
May 16, 2027 4pm
Thorn Creek Reformed Church
1875 E 170th St South Holland, IL 60473
May 23, 2027 4pm
St. John the Evangelist - St. John, IN
10701 Olcott Ave, St. John, IN 46373
Experience two magnificent and impressionable works, created in our time, for our time, which are sure to resonant, and uplift you
We Sang at Carnegie Hall in 2025
We are Singing there Again!
Requiem for the Living – June 13, 2027
Carnegie Hall Debut – A Day to Remember!
Pictures from the Faure Requiem concert at Carnegie Hall, June 8, 2025
View our photo gallery.
South Holland Master Chorale @ Carnegie Hall!
In recognition of the Chorale’s dedication to musical excellence and a successful audition, we were members of the Distinguished Concerts Singers International choir that performed the Faure Requiem, under the esteemed leadership of Jean-Sabébastien Vallée.
This performance took place on Sunday, June 8th, 2025 in the Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall.
We are given this unique opportunity to perform in one of the world’s greatest concert halls, which itself represents excellence and musical achievement. We are proud to accept the invitation and represent the Village of South Holland and chorale arts in the Southland.
Magnificent Beautiful
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South Holland Master Chorale
The South Holland Master Chorale welcomes you to our 2024-2025 season our third year under the new leadership of Philip Bauman. The Chorale is excited to usher in a new era of leadership and continue our spectacular traditions for GREAT choral performances. As has been the case for the past 25 years, our season, our singers, and our dedication to presenting the very best in choral literature have all remained at the same high level you have come to know, expect, and appreciate. The South Holland Master Chorale remains the Chicago Southland’s premier symphonic chorus, having performed many of the greatest masterpieces of classical choral and choral/orchestral literature.
The 80+ member South Holland chorus has performed throughout the Chicago south suburbs and Northwest Indiana, with orchestras including the Chicago Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the LaPorte Symphony, the Illinois Philharmonic, and the Lake Shore Symphony Orchestra. The group also undertook a successful European concert tour to Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic in 2011.
Featured Chorus Videos
Coronation Anthem No. 1 “Zadok the Priest”
by G.F. Handel
Mozart’s Misericordias Domini
Our Vision:
The South Holland Master Chorale will be a diverse, welcoming community of singers that uses the power of music to heal, enrich and inspire.
Our Mission:
The South Holland Master Chorale's mission is to use musical performance and innovative community collaboration to inspire, connect and educate, enhancing the quality of life for all.