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About Our Choir

The Medford Community Chorale and Youth Chorus is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community choral organization which provides educational and performance opportunities in the art of  choral singing to all interested adult and youth singers in Medford and surrounding communities.  The group rehearses weekly on Wednesday evenings and presents chorale performances to the public twice a year, in addition to performances for nursing home residents and at special community events (e.g.,  mayoral inauguration etc.)

Our History

The chorale was founded by Director Betsy Pesce back in early November 2019. Shortly thereafter, the chorale gave its first public performance at Medford’s Inaugural Celebration, with 59 singers on stage. And now, after an 18 month hiatus due to the COVID 19 pandemic, the MCC is back! The groups received approval from the Medford Community Schools office during the summer to resume in person rehearsals and they just presented their first “post pandemic” concert, “Jingle All the Way!”, a varied program of sacred, popular and classical Holiday selections, on Friday, December 10th at 7pm in the Caron Theatre at Medford High School. A portion of the proceeds from the concert ad book was donated to the CITY-WIDE HUNGER FREE initiative, under the auspices of the Medford Food Security Taskforce. The MCC may be back…but they actually never went away! The choruses were in the throes of preparing for a spring concert at Tufts University, when everything came to a “screeching halt“ in mid March 2020, due to the pandemic. When it became clear that it was going to be quite a while before the groups would be able to come together again, Betsy, accompanist Dr. Holly Zagaria, and Julie Kelleher, chorale member and technical director, came up with the idea that perhaps the group could try to create a “virtual choir” video. And so, the first Medford Community Chorale “virtual choir video”, “Thank You for the Music” (Mama Mia) - with 38 participants - was completed at the beginning of September 2020, and the groups went on to create two more adult chorus videos, two youth/young adult chorus videos, and their final virtual choir video, “Sing!”, featured the combined adult and youth choruses. Because there are no geographical boundaries with a virtual performance, the chorale was thrilled to welcome participants from California, Illinois, Washington, D.C., and even from Stuttgart, Germany and Abbruzzo, Italy! Sadly, the chorale has lost two of its members to the coronavirus, and they were remembered at the performance in December. Links to all of the groups’ performances may be found on the chorale’s Facebook page: “Medford Community Chorale“, their website: “MedfordCommunityChorale.org” and on YouTube: “Medford Community Chorale” For more information, please contact director Betsy Pesce at [email protected] or at 617-335-8155.”

Rehearsal Location
  • McGlynn Middle School Auditorium
  • 3002 Mystic Valley Parkway
Additional Info for Choristers

No membership fee; weekly rehearsals on Wednesdays: Youth/Young Adult Chorus 6-7pm, Full Chorale 7-8:30pm;

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