Event Date
The UC Davis Chorus invites alumni to join them for this one-of-a-kind concert weekend, May 29 to 31!
The featured work of music will be Rosephanye Powell’s Cry of Jeremiah for narrator, orchestra, organ, and — of course — chorus throughout in the splendid Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.
Featuring:
- Rosephanye Powell, narrator and composer
- TBA, soloist
- UC Davis Symphony Orchestra
- Professor Nicolás Alberto Dosman, conductor and director of choirs at UC Davis
Dates: Friday, May 29, 2026 - Sunday, May 31, 2026
Times: See schedule below
Location: Mondavi Center, UC Davis Campus
Cost: $25 (includes sheet music and post-concert hosted bar reception)
Schedule:
Friday, May 29, 2026
- 5 – 6 p.m. REGISTRATION (Lobby, Mondavi Center)
- 7 – 9 p.m. CHORUS-ONLY REHEARSAL (Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center)
Saturday, May 30, 2026
- 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. ORCHESTRA & STUDENT CHORISTERS-ONLY REHEARSAL
- [lunch on own]
- 1 – 2 p.m. CHORUS-ONLY WARMUP (Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center)
- 2 – 5 p.m. TUTTI REHEARSAL w/Break (Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center)
Sunday, May 31, 2026
- 5 p.m. CHORUS-ONLY WARMUP (Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, Mondavi Center)
- 7 – 9 p.m. CONCERT (Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center)
- Milton Wiliams: Suite from A Bridge to the Promised Land (orchestra and student choristers only)
- [Intermission]
- Rosephanye Powell: Cry of Jeremiah
- Alumni-Chorus, Soloists, Faculty, and Music Philanthropist's Post-Concert Reception (Margaret Deterding Grand Tier Lobby, Mondavi Center)
We are also happy to announce the Concert Singers of UC Davis will travel to New York City to perform this work in Carnegie Hall on Saturday, June 20, 2026, at 1 p.m. with a hired orchestra and conducted by Professor Dosman. If you would like to become involved in this particular performance, please email Phil Daley, concert producer in the Department of Music, at pedaley@ucdavis.edu.