Our 2016-2017 season became more expansive with the Johannes Brahms Alto Rhapsody and the Johann Adolf Hasse Messe in d minor. The Hasse work was re-discovered by Dr. David Wilson, teacher, scholar and conductor, Professor Emeritus from the Thornton School of Music at USC and a friend of the Prescott Chorale. In May, the Chorale celebrated the genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and added an additional performance to showcase both his Solemn Vespers, AND, the Requiem.

The 2017-18 led off with the Chorale performing works, in Russian, by noted composers like Rachmaninoff, Tschesnokoff, and several contemporary composers from the region. In April, the Chorale closed with a glorious presentation of Josef Rheinberger’s, Mass in C Major, op. 69; our three Young Artist Competition scholarship winners performances; the concert closed with Rene Clausen’s Memorial to the victims of September 11, 2001.

That summer, the Prescott Chorale reprised Hasse’s Messe in d minor, taking it to Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Wroclaw and Prague. Dr. Wilson returned to Wroclaw to conduct the Chorale in the birthplace of Johann Hasse, almost 50 years after discovering and beginning the reconstruction of Hasse’s score. Before departure, our local audience was treated to a performance of all the music the Chorale was taking on tour.

The 2018-19 season opened with an all Bach concert, a mini-festival as it were, in collaboration with the new Arizona Philharmonic Orchestra featuring J.S. Bach’s Magnificat. The spring concert showcased works by French composers Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saëns, as well as standout performances by winners of the Chorale’s third Young Artists competition.

Beginning the 2019-2020 season, the Prescott Chorale once again ventured out to perform a lesser known work, the Symphony of Psalms by Igor Stravinsky, a complex and somewhat “dark” piece. It was paired with Brahm’s Liebeslieder Walzer. The April 2020 concert was programed to bring the Prescott Chorale’s fifth season to a close with a performance of contemporary composer Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living. However, due to the constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chorale suspended its performances and intends to re-open in October 2021 with this work.