Washington Men's Camerata

06/16/2026

What a fantastic way to close out the season! This concert included educational engagement, audience connection, visual arts, instrumentalists, and a rich array of music sung at a soaring level!

Thank you for your support! As we round out our concert & fiscal year, we invite you to donate, be it for the joy you received or the arts you wish to continue seeing & hearing. Please give at camerata.com/donate

📸 photos by David Stuck

06/01/2026

Congrats & thanks for a tremendous concert: Cameratans, Artistic Director Scott Tucker, Collaborative Pianist Grace Cho, the Young Men’s Ensemble of Children's Chorus of Washington, conductor Don Cotton, guest instrumentalists Julie Huang Tucker, Sonya Hayes, John Abbracciamento & painter Luther Wright. We’re also grateful to our staff, board, volunteers, St. Ann Catholic Church and their Dir. of Music Bob Bright & Msgr. James Watkins.

And we’re most obliged to the 350 supporters who listened & donated. If this concert or season inspired you, please give at camerata.com/donate.

05/30/2026

No chorus concert of U.S. music is complete without the sonorous sound of brass! John Abbracciamento joins the Camerata on trumpet & flugelhorn—the latter in Stephen Chatman’s “Reconciliation.” 1 of 3 Walt Whitman poems on the program, alongside “Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes” from “We Two,” and “Dance” from “Invocation and Dance.”

Hear them Sunday at 3pm at St. Ann Catholic Church. RSVP free, learn more & donate at camerata.com

05/28/2026

Composer David Conte’s “Invocation and Dance” was written for San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus after nearly half its members fell victim to the AIDS epidemic. The music is set to American poet (& gay icon) Walt Whitman’s poem, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” which explores the theme of death as part of nature.

Conte is chair of composition at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. A student of the Nadia Boulanger, leaning into this French influence, Conte evokes Stravinsky’s music, giving an exuberant energy to the song. The piece’s constantly changing meter, unpredictable rhythms, and challenging 4-hand parts, expertly played by Grace Cho & Julie Huang Tucker, makes for a virtuosic soundscape!

With “Dance,” the Camerata incorporates, in Sunday’s concert representation of the U.S., the resilience of the LGBTQ+ community & their unwavering determination to be joyful & perseverant in the face of adversity. camerata.com

05/28/2026

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - Join us for this celebratory concert this Sunday!

FEATURING
Scott Tucker • Artistic Director
Grace Cho • Collaborative Pianist
The Young Men’s Ensemble of The Children’s Chorus of Washington
Don Cotton, Associate Artistic Director
Sonya Hayes, violin
John Abbracciamento, trumpet & flugelhorn
Luther Wright, painter

More info at: https://stanndc.org/events/st-ann-dc-concert-series-2025-2026-11

05/26/2026

Happy Memorial Day! A perfect way to celebrate this week with Sunday's Free Classical Concert with Washington Men's Camerata - Free Classical Concert - Washington Men's Camerata "This Is America: 250 Years of U.S. Music"

05/21/2026

An 1885 banger! Just wait until we’re standing!

The Camerata combines with the Young Men’s Ensemble of Children's Chorus of Washington for “Unclouded Day” & an array of U.S. music: gospel hymns, barbershop, spirituals, folk songs & more. Free 5/31 at 3pm at St. Ann Catholic Church in DC.

RSVP at camerata.com, where you can support this concert with $25 or $250 or $2,500 or whatever feels impactful to you!

05/19/2026

Criticized for it's landowning assumptions, Robert Frost's "The Gift Outright" was rejected by Randall Thompson for a bicentennial commission by the town of Amherst, MA. Instead, Thompson set other Frost poems for "Frostiana: Seven Country Songs." From that work, one of Director Emeritus Frank Albinder's favorites, "The Pasture" will be reprised alongside "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" for the Camerata's free 🆓 5/31 concert at St. Ann Catholic Church in Tenleytown, DC, celebrating 250 years of U.S. music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYCoqo4y79g

You can support this & other free Camerata programming this year with a donation of $25, $250, $2,500 or any amount meaningful to you. RSVP & give at camerata.com

Randall Thompson (1899-1984) was commissioned for "Frostiana: Seven...

05/17/2026

Asking the singers to describe “Home on the Range,” Artistic Director Scott Tucker added, “Expansive, because the melody has this range to it and this feeling . . . And loving—it’s very loving, nostalgic, blissful. It has that sense of a little bit of ache to it. The way it begins piano and unison; not very fast; slow and reflective. It makes me listen to this tune in a different way, when all the male voices start singing this slowly. I think of it differently than the way I heard it as a young kid. I want to bring out all the emotions and sing it . . . simply.”

Hear the Camerata share 250 years worth of U.S. music. 5/31 at 3pm St. Ann Catholic Church. RSVP free & donate $25, $250, $2,500 or any amount meaningful to you!