After 24 years at the helm, Bruce Tammen, the founder and artistic director of Chicago Chorale, will be retiring at the end of the 2025-26 season. Without institutional funding or sponsorship, Tammen founded Chicago Chorale in 2001. The group flourished under his direction and was quickly acknowledged for its high-quality performances of a cappella and orchestral choral works — a transformation of the sound of Chorale’s 60 volunteer singers into that of a professional-level ensemble. Bruce Tammen joins WFMT to look back on the accomplishments of the Chicago Chorale in advance of his final performance as artistic director leading Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem later this month. Learn more HERE.
A Celebration of Chicago Chorale’s Bruce Tammen
Bruce Tammen (Photo: Erielle Bakkum Photography)
Playlist
All selections performed by Chicago Chorale under the direction of Bruce Tammen.
Francis Poulenc: “Ave Maria” from Dialogues of the Carmelites (arr. Bruce Tammen)
Cristobal Morales: Jesu, Redemptor omnium
Stephen Paulus: Pilgrims’ Hymn
Otto Olsson Ave maris stella
Randall Thompson: Alleluia
Einojuhani Rautavaara: “Evening Hymn” from Vigilia
Sergei Rachmaninoff: “Bogoroditse Devo” from All-Night Vigil
Rodion Shchedrin: Movement IX from The Sealed Angel
Adèle-Marie Buis, oboe
Javier Centeno Martin: Lux fulgebit
Javier Busto: O magnum mysterium
