Vancouver Music Organizations

Top professional choirs, choral ensembles and other musical performing groups in Vancouver include the following:

Other Lower Mainland Choirs

Some of the Lower Mainland’s exceptional and highly recommended amateur choirs include the following:

Vancouver Oratorio Choir – a large choir of Christian vocalists and musicians.
Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir – a large male voice choir.
VOC Soul Gospel Choir – a large choir specializing in Soul and Gospel led by accomplished musician Checo Tohomaso.
Good Noise Vancouver Gospel Choir – the choir in residence at Christ Church Anglican Cathedral.
Laudate Singers – a chamber choir based on Vancouver’s North Shore.
City Soul Choir – a secular community choir with over 100 members and led by music director Brian Tate.
Elektra Choir – an all-women’s choir with more than 40 experienced singers.
Top Line Vocal Collective – a 40-member non-denominational vocal ensemble that sings a range of pop, rhythm and blues, soul and gospel.
Universal Gospel Choir – Vancouver’s longest-running community-based gospel choir with 60+ members.
EnChor Choir – an auditioned SATB choir that performs three public concerts a year.
United Voices Choir – the 60-member choir based in Vancouver.

Special Performances

For a list of upcoming performances, see individual choir websites or check out Vancouver’s Shows & Entertainment Calendar.

Other non-choir events and special performances you might be interested in include the following:

Vancouver Summer Festival – a series of concerts featuring a variety of composers in July and August. (Note: This event was formerly known as the Vancouver Bach Festival.)
Vancouver International Jazz Festival – a large music festival in late June and early July that features a number of choirs along with a wide assortment of Jazz bands and performers.
Fort Langley Jazz & Arts Festival – an event featuring art and Jazz concerts in Fort Langley in the summer.
Vancouver Folk Music Festival – one the biggest music festivals in Vancouver, it happens at Jericho Beach in July.
Symphony in the Park – a free performance by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at Deer Lake Park in early July.
Opera in the Park – held in Burnaby’s Deer Lake Park, it’s a free concert that usually happens a day after the Symphony in the Park event.
Mission Folk Music Festival – a family-friendly, fun community event at Fraser River Heritage Park in Mission at the end of July.

Many festive winter season concerts take place throughout the Lower Mainland in December each year as well. Click Vancouver Christmas Concerts for more details.