MUSIC TO HEAL SEPARATION AND LOSS
November 9 • 7:30 PM • YouTube

CORO ALLEGRO
David Hodgkins, Artistic Director

We are proud to welcome Boston's award-winning LGBTQ+ and allied classical chorus.

Under the leadership of Artistic Director David Hodgkins, Coro Allegro is known for critically acclaimed programming, performances, and recordings of works by diverse classical and contemporary composers. Through its performances, collaborations, community partnerships, and outreach, Coro Allegro strengthens community, builds bridges, and enriches lives in the Greater Boston area and beyond. Coro Allegro is dedicated to providing access to choral music to broad audiences, to performing works by diverse composers, and to serving as a model LGBTQ+ organization through artistic excellence and visibility.
In 2019, Coro Allegro was named a winner of the Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming This prestigious award recognizes choruses that demonstrate a commitment to fostering and promoting new music. Since it founding in 1991, Coro Allegro has performed 22 world premieres, including 13 commissions, by a diverse range of composers, and earned praise from Gramophone magazine for recordings that introduced “meaningful additions to the choral repertoire.” 

Coro Allegro has released four critically acclaimed commercial recordings: In Paradisum and Awakenings on the Navona Records label, as well as In the Clearing and somewhere i have never traveled. Coro Allegro’s forthcoming album, We Are Here, will feature new works by American composers that bear witness to the importance of international human rights.