Experience the extraordinary possibilities of the human voice.
The 2026–2027 Orlando Sings season reveals just how expansive choral music can be. Voices dance, tell stories, illuminate familiar traditions, bring forgotten masterpieces back to life, and help create something entirely new.
From beloved masterworks to world premieres, from intimate professional performances to hundreds of voices raised together, this season explores the many ways singing can move us, connect us, and open us to something new.
2026-2027 SEASON OVERVIEW
The season begins with the irresistible rhythms of ¡Baila y Canta! and continues with two distinctive holiday traditions: the intimate Messiah by Candlelight and the beloved A Solaria Solstice. March brings the dramatic return of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s rarely heard masterpiece The Atonement. In April, Orlando Sings serves as a lead commissioner for one of four world-premiere performances of Jocelyn Hagen’s new multimedia oratorio Creation, where music, poetry, technology, and synchronized imagery become one. In May, the Orlando Sings Choral Festival returns in a completely reimagined format—a full day of concerts, guest artists, interactive experiences, conversation, and opportunities to sing, culminating in Mary Lou Williams’ Mary Lou’s Mass, an exhilarating fusion of jazz, gospel, and sacred tradition. The season closes in Steinmetz Hall with Love Endures, bringing voices across generations together around themes of love, family, and memory and featuring Robert S. Cohen’s deeply moving Alzheimer’s Stories as the emotional centerpiece of the evening. Together, these programs invite audiences to experience the human voice in all its power to move, connect, illuminate, and inspire.
CONCERTS & EVENTS
¡BAILA Y CANTA! | NOVEMBER 13, 2026 | 7:30 PM
Music that moves—in every sense of the word.
Steinmetz Hall at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts (445 South Magnolia Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801)
HANDEL’S MESSIAH BY CANDLELIGHT | DECEMBER 5, 2026 | 8:00 PM
Handel’s beloved masterpiece, illuminated by candlelight.
Broadway United Methodist Church
406 E Amelia St, Orlando, FL 32803
A SOLARIA SOLSTICE | DECEMBER 21, 2026 | 8:00 PM
Light and wonder on the longest night of the year.
Orlando Museum of Art
2416 N Mills Ave, Orlando, FL 32803
THE ATONEMENT BY SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR | MARCH 5, 2027 | 7:30 PM
A lost masterpiece. A timeless story of passion, sacrifice, and hope.
First United Methodist Church Orlando
142 E Jackson St, Orlando, FL 32801
CREATION BY JOCELYN HAGEN | APRIL 18, 2027 | 5:30 PM
See the music. Hear the universe come to life.
WORLD PREMIERE • ORLANDO SINGS LEAD COMMISSIONER
Harriett’s Orlando Ballet Centre (600 N. Lake Formosa Drive, Orlando, FL 32803)
ORLANDO SINGS CHORAL FESTIVAL | MAY 1, 2027 | EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE DAY
A celebration of the art—and joy—of singing.
Come for the concerts. Stay for the festival.
Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater and DeVos Family Room at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts (445 South Magnolia Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801)
LOVE ENDURES: ALZHEIMER’S STORIES BY ROBERT S. COHEN | JUNE 4, 2027 | 7:30 PM
Stories of love, memory, and the bonds that shape our lives.
Steinmetz Hall at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts (445 South Magnolia Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801)
A SOLARIA SUMMER SOLSTICE | JUNE 21, 2027 | 7:00 PM
Music for the longest light of the year.
Voices, poetry, and the music of the living earth.
Azalea Lodge at Mead Garden (1300 S. Denning Drive, Winter Park, FL 32789)
COMMUNITY PERFORMANCES
GLADDENING LIGHT CONFERENCE: WE BELONG TO ONE ANOTHER | JANUARY 29-31, 2027 | Featured Performance January 30 7:15 PM
Healing division with compassion, presence, and love.
Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
PERFORMERS
SOLARIA SINGERS
Experience an octet of vocalists from Orlando Sings’ professional choir, the Solaria Singers, at this transformative conference organized by Gladdening Light. We will be singing throughout the weekend, leading symposium participants in the transcendent and transformative experience of shared singing, and presenting a headliner concert on Saturday evening with an inspiring program related to the themes of the conference.
GladdeningLight is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit spiritual initiative whose mission is to explore transcendent elements of art through hosted conferences, exhibits & public performance, cloistered retreat, and pilgrimage. GladdeningLight is open to all and representative of thoughtful spiritual seekers both inside and outside traditional religious practice.