Causes: Arts & Culture, Music, Singing & Choral Groups
Mission: The Orange County Women's Chorus creates and performs outstanding choral literature, engages and enriches our audiences, and celebrates women in music.
Results: The Orange County Women’s Chorus, founded in an Irvine living room in 1997 and directed since 2000 by Eliza Rubenstein, has become one of Southern California’s leading amateur choruses. The OCWC has performed at venues including the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall’s REDCAT Theater, and the 2020,2012, and 2004 Western Division conferences of the American Choral Directors’ Association. The chorus was named a 2014 Outstanding Arts Organization by Arts Orange County, won a prize at the 2015 International Musical Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales, and participated in the Carnegie Hall premiere of Kirke Mechem’s "Songs of the Slave" in New York City in June 2017.The OCWC's Carnegie Hall concert debut, planned in June 2021, has been postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The OCWC’s wide-ranging repertoire especially emphasizes contemporary and little-known works. The chorus is committed to exploring works by women composers of the past and the present, and has commissioned new works by Kirke Mechem, Ruth Huber, Angel Lam, Dale Trumbore, Sharon Farber, Ethan Sperry, and Joan Szymko. The ensemble’s website hosts a nationally-known database of choral works by women composers. We’re especially proud of our conducting internship program, which to date has offered paid year-long positions to twelve young women entering the field of choral conducting. Our interns participate not only in the rehearsing and conducting of the chorus, but also in the marketing, fundraising, and administrative tasks of operating a non-profit musical organization. The chorus’s members include educators, executives, students, engineers, medical professionals, artists, activists, mothers, and grandmothers.
Target demographics: provide the transformative power of music to the community
Direct beneficiaries per year: more than 1,000 audience members, a conducting intern and several composers and professional musicians.
Geographic areas served: southern California
Programs: concert programs, an annual conducting internship, and commissioning new music.
Mission: The Orange County Women's Chorus creates and performs outstanding choral literature, engages and enriches our audiences, and celebrates women in music.
Results: The Orange County Women’s Chorus, founded in an Irvine living room in 1997 and directed since 2000 by Eliza Rubenstein, has become one of Southern California’s leading amateur choruses. The OCWC has performed at venues including the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall’s REDCAT Theater, and the 2020,2012, and 2004 Western Division conferences of the American Choral Directors’ Association. The chorus was named a 2014 Outstanding Arts Organization by Arts Orange County, won a prize at the 2015 International Musical Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales, and participated in the Carnegie Hall premiere of Kirke Mechem’s "Songs of the Slave" in New York City in June 2017.The OCWC's Carnegie Hall concert debut, planned in June 2021, has been postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The OCWC’s wide-ranging repertoire especially emphasizes contemporary and little-known works. The chorus is committed to exploring works by women composers of the past and the present, and has commissioned new works by Kirke Mechem, Ruth Huber, Angel Lam, Dale Trumbore, Sharon Farber, Ethan Sperry, and Joan Szymko. The ensemble’s website hosts a nationally-known database of choral works by women composers. We’re especially proud of our conducting internship program, which to date has offered paid year-long positions to twelve young women entering the field of choral conducting. Our interns participate not only in the rehearsing and conducting of the chorus, but also in the marketing, fundraising, and administrative tasks of operating a non-profit musical organization. The chorus’s members include educators, executives, students, engineers, medical professionals, artists, activists, mothers, and grandmothers.
Target demographics: provide the transformative power of music to the community
Direct beneficiaries per year: more than 1,000 audience members, a conducting intern and several composers and professional musicians.
Geographic areas served: southern California
Programs: concert programs, an annual conducting internship, and commissioning new music.
info@ocwomenschorus.org
23802 Avenida de la Carlota, Laguna Hills, CA 92653
949-451-8590
Arts & Culture
Laguna Hills
