(12/29) Music, Gettysburg! is thrilled to welcome the Chamber Choir of Central Bucks High School-West, from Doylestown, PA, for a stirring concert on Sunday, January 12 at 4:00 pm. Morten Lauridsen, the most performed American composer in history, has called West Chamber Choir the greatest high school choir in the country. The concert, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the chapel of United Lutheran Seminary, 147 Seminary Ridge, Gettysburg.

West Choirs continuously enjoy collaborations with some of the world’s most important composers and conductors. They have performed from coast to coast in the United States in such venues as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the National Cathedral, and six times at The White House, St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, the United Nations, and twenty times at Carnegie Hall. They have performed a large number of concerts internationally, including at Notre Dame Cathedral and the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.

West Choirs have worked under the batons of world-famous conductors such as Frank Albinder, Charles Bruffy, René Clausen, Simon Carrington, Joseph Flummerfelt, Dennis Keene, Bobby McFerrin, Weston Noble, John Rutter, and Dale Warland. The choirs have performed in collaboration with actors F. Murray Abrahams, Leonard Nimoy, Micah Sloat, Alan Thicke, and many Broadway stars.

The Chamber Choir has been included in a CD compilation of the greatest high school choirs in the United States that is published with The School Choral Program text book. West Choirs have performed for many world leaders including: Presidents DeKlerk and Mandela of South Africa, President Havel of the Czech Republic, Prime Minister Peres of Israel, President Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and President and Mrs. Obama. West Chamber Choir was featured on a broadcast of the BBC featuring the world’s greatest youth choirs in 2012. Millions have seen the choirs in televised performances singing major production numbers in the National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade, Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Philadelphia Fourth of July Parade, and the Electric River Spectacular.

Alumni of the West choral program include superstar P!NK, as well as amateur and professional musicians across the country. These include published composers, performers in national tour companies, rock musicians, opera singers, and contemporary performing artists.