About Our Choir
Celebrating it's 40th season in 2022-2023, Masterworks Choral Ensemble is an adult Southwest Washington chorus dedicated to performance, community service, music education, and leadership in the arts.
Our History
Masterworks was founded in 1981, in Olympia, WA.
Since inception, MCE has:
- Performed over 700 works by classical and popular composers
- Performed the choral masterworks of 57 composers
- Performed diverse musical styles from Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, and Romantic, to popular styles like Broadway and Hollywood musicals, big band, doo-wop, and swing, as well as explorations into ethnic African, Jewish and Latin American music
- Commissioned four new choral works
- Performed with over 200 choir members (cumulatively)
- Performed with orchestra 23 times
- Performed with 51 vocal soloists
- Performed with 36 guest groups/performers
- Collaborated with 16 other arts groups
- Performed with over 125 children from 10 local schools
- Performed and rehearsed with 14 accompanists
- Performed in 11 venues
- Performed numerous times for Governors Locke and Gardner at the Governor’s Mansion
- Given the Salute to the Arts award to 20+ prominent contributors to the Arts in our region
- Provided choral clinics for the community with Paul Hill, SoVoSó, and m-pact
