Although most of our performances are in Carlisle, we also perform elsewhere in the Harrisburg area.   In the last few years we have presented concerts in Chambersburg, New Oxford, Hershey, State College, and Camp Hill.  A 2003 highlight was singing before 1,500 people attending a Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry banquet in Hershey.

For a brief historical timeline for Cantate Carlisle, click here.

We have three recordings available for sale to the public:
    Cantate Carlisle: The 1990s, released in 2000 in celebration of our tenth anniversary
    One World-Many Songs, a recording of our Spring 2003 concert
    A North American Potpourri, a recording of our Spring 2009 concert, music for our Canadian tour
To purchase any of these, click here.

Between 1999 and 2005 Cantate Carlisle collaborated with Bel Voce to sponsor the biannual Central Pennsylvania Choral Festival in nearby Camp Hill. The Festival provides area music lovers with the performance of a major choral/orchestral work directed by a renowned guest conductor. Each participating choral group also presents an individual performance of shorter selections during the Festival concert.

In 2000 we commissioned and performed a new work, Reflections on Walden Pond, by Canadian composer Donald Patriquin.

Cantate Carlisle has taken three international concert tours.  These include Our  concert tour performances in Scotland and England in June 2001 and Eastern Europe (Budapest, Prague, and the Austrian city of Linz)  in the summer of 2005.  

In June 2009 Cantate Carlisle toured through eastern Canada, stopping in Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, and the Eastern Townships near the Vermont border.  Some performances were informal, held in churches we visited, and two were formal concerts with a full program and enthusiastic audiences of 150-250 people.  We saw some tourist attractions as well, and came away with a warm feeling for the area and a desire to return someday.

In 2009-2010 Cantate Carlisle celebrates 20 years of enriching lives with the beauty of music, stretching minds with expressive poetic song texts, and sharing the ambiance and energy of live concert performance with friends and neighbors in Carlisle.  Our fall concert celebrates the work of Dale Warland, featuring the premiere of a new work commissioned by Cantate Carlisle as well as other pieces written for or arranged by Mr. Wareland.  In the spring our youth choir, Cantate cum Spiritum!, makes its debut in a major work for adult choir, children's choir, and orchestra by Andrew Carter.  Further details on the 2009-2010 season are available here.