THE JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
CHORUS
JON O. CARLSON, Director of Choruses
BRENDA MCNEILAND, Choral Administrator
ILEANA FERNANDEZ, Accompanist
The Jacksonville Symphony Chorus, now in its 22nd year, features some of the First Coast area’s finest voices. Membership is made up of volunteers who come from all walks of life, sharing a spirit that can only come from singing choral music. The steadily growing roster also includes many professional musicians and skilled amateur performers.
Throughout its history, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra Chorus has been a part of many landmark JSO occasions, including a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony for the Jacoby Symphony Hall inaugural concert. This past season, the chorus participated with the orchestra in its commercial recording. The work selected for this historical recording was Orff's Carmina Burana. This season includes Mendelssohn's Elijah, Haydn's Mass in D Minor "Lord Nelson Mass," Mahler's Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" and Handel’s Messiah. The chorus will also appear in the Symphony’s opera production of Rossini's Barber of Seville. In a lighter vein, the chorus will perform in the Holiday Pops concert, always a favorite.
