Cambridge Community Chorus

05/19/2026

Thank you to all who were such a great audience for our performance of Sea Symphony! Were you on the stage or in the audience? What did you think?

05/16/2026

Our hard-working musical leaders were given jaunty sailor hats for our final regular rehearsal. We are full steam ahead for tomorrow’s concert. The orchestra is wonderful, the soloists are powerful, and we can’t wait to share the Sea Symphony with you.

05/07/2026

We have been invited once more to perform at Cambridge's Holocaust Commemoration. Held at Temple Beth Shalom, 8 Tremont St. in Cambridge, this year the event will be Wednesday 20th at 7:00 PM. We are honored to be able to participate in this moving event.

https://www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/peacecommission/calendar/view.aspx?guid=3b848e18ae3c4f0a83dc9ba63d881df9

03/22/2026

Meet the soprano soloist for our upcoming performance of A Sea Symphony, Lika Miyake!

Soprano Lika Miyake is known for her rich, vibrant voice and her versatility on the concert stage, in recital, and in ensemble. She has been featured as a soloist in works including Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Bach’s Magnificat in D, Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore, Mozart’s Missa brevis in F, and Haydn’s Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo. She has sung the soprano solos in performances of Handel’s Messiah in English and in Japanese. Ms. Miyake has studied with Doris Yarick-Cross (Yale Opera), Elizabeth Hynes (USC), and Reid Bruton.

A dedicated choral artist, Ms. Miyake has twenty years of experience with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and has appeared with The Golden Bridge, the Los Angeles Vocal Artists, and other chamber choruses. She sang on the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s GRAMMY®- winning recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, among other recordings, and has performed under such conductors as Gustavo Dudamel, Grant Gershon, Zubin Mehta, Michael Tilson-Thomas, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Andrew Davis, Helmuth Rilling, and Robert Shaw. Ms. Miyake is also a studio musician who can be heard on over thirty movie soundtracks. Ms. Miyake is a member of AGMA and SAG-AFTRA.

03/12/2026

Meet our baritone soloist for "A Sea Symphony", Bradford Gleim!

Bradford Gleim uses the human voice to create authentic connection. As an artist and mentor, he delves deeply into repertoire spanning 600 years, embracing a flexible vocal technique and sometimes unfamiliar approaches in the pursuit of emotionally attuned performances.

Mr. Gleim’s artistic commitment and risk-taking have won him wide recognition. Praised by the Boston Globe for his “voluminous baritone” and “brilliant delivery,” he performs throughout the United States and Europe. On the concert stage he has appeared with leading ensembles and in distinguished festivals including the Handel and Haydn Society, Tage Alter Musik (Regensburg), Boston Baroque, San Francisco Early Music Society, Emmanuel Music, The Borromeo String Quartet, Laus Polyphoniae (Antwerp, Belgium), Floremus (Florence, Italy), and with Boston’s spirited conductorless orchestra A Far Cry.

In the 2024-25 Season, Mr Gleim was honored to perform Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana with Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra and RV Williams’ Sea Symphony with Cape Symphony. A proponent of new music, he collaborates with living composers to bring life to their works, having most recently sung Rick Sowash’s Harvest of a Quiet Eye with the Harvard Radcliffe Chorus and premiered Grüße Bruno ~ Briefe aus Stalingrad by Ralf Gawlick. An avid choral singer, Bradford Gleim performs with top ensembles in the US and is a longtime member of The Handel and Haydn Society and Boston Baroque choruses. He was featured soloist with Craig Hella Johnson and Conspirare on the 2015 Grammy Award-winning album The Sacred Spirit of Russia.

Bradford Gleim mentors others to discover their embodied voice. Moving fluidly among heterogeneous vocal techniques and pedagogical traditions, he helps musicians access not only a variety of vocal colors, but also their potential for healing, personal growth, and body awareness. Mr. Gleim guides singers in the Holden Voice Program at Harvard University, in the Applied Music Program at Brown University, and as Associate Professor of Voice at Berklee College of Music. He leads workshops and masterclasses and offers unique intuitive instruction for vocalists in his private studio.

02/12/2026

Back Bay Chorale, as part of it's 50th Anniversary Season, partnered with Trinity Church, Boston to offer a public "Sign-In" of Fauré's Requiem. 500 people ...

01/29/2026

Our May 17th performance of A Sea Symphony is six years in the making. We began in January of 2020, and then in March, the world shut down. Since then, music director Pamela Mindell has been building us back to be the chorus that can tackle this challenging work. It is fitting that this is also our 35th anniversary concert, including sharing the stage with a full symphonic orchestra.

01/27/2026

Video of our December performance "War and Peace" is now available thanks to our friends at Cambridge Community Television! Come for the the Haydn, but stay for the three variations of Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace) which span the centuries.

This is "Cambridge Community Chorus: War & Peace (Dec. 14th, 2025)" by Cambridge Community Television on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and…

01/12/2026

It’s that time of year!

Feeling run-down this season? Learn how sickness impacts your voice—and how to protect, rest, and safely rebuild it as you return to singing.

12/30/2025

Longtime friend of the Chorus Donnell Paterson in the Boston Globe! (apologies for the paywall)

Donnell Patterson helped found New England Conservatory's Millennium Gospel Choir, which celebrates its 25th anniversary with a performance at the MFA next month.