Chorus Hamilton

Your nervous system has been listening to:
notification sounds
traffic
emails
construction
people chewing too loud
your own thoughts at 2am

Maybe it deserves Mozart for a night.

Chorus Hamilton is performing The Mozart Effect with 75 singers, 25 professional musicians, giant dramatic choir music, weird Mozart lore, and a few genuinely fascinating things about what music actually does to the body and brain.

No boring lecture.
No “you must appreciate culture” energy.
Just one massive wall of human sound in a room full of people feeling something together.

Featuring:
🎻 Mozart’s Requiem
🎻 Ave verum corpus
🎻 Laudate Dominum
🎻 Piano Concerto No. 20

📍 St. Paul’s United Church, Dundas
📅 Saturday, May 30
🕢 7:30PM
🎟 $30 • Kids FREE

This is not background music.

Chorus Hamilton is a community choir.

That means our singers include teachers, retirees, students, healthcare workers, parents, shift workers, and people squeezing rehearsal in between the chaos of real life.

Every Tuesday night, people from all across Hamilton show up.
Not because they have to, but because music matters to them that much.

And when concert time comes, we hire incredible professional and semi-professional musicians to join us on stage. People who are deeply passionate about their craft and committed to bringing this music to life for the community.

That's the magic of community music.

Professional musicians. Community singers. One room full of people making something beautiful together.

Not exclusivity. Connection.

There's something pretty special about regular Hamiltonians deciding that singing Mozart together still matters in 2026.

Who was the mystery pianist?!..
We did a thing.

We were inspired by to put on a One Night Choir.

2 weeks later we get an email from Orpheus Men's Choir about choirs around the city joining a mental health initiative to support and well, "Lean on Me" became the obvious choice.

This is 60 strangers learning a song, connecting over music and feeling joy on a Wednesday night. They chose to live life, support a cause and maybe make a friend. Now that's showing up for your community.

We love you Hamilton 🫶

Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for joining us. We had a blast and will do it again!

That mystery pianist? Halfway through the song she jumps up and offers to play piano so David can be in the moment conducting us. Could we have learned the song without her? You bet. But would we have been sooo into it and bopping along if he had to play and conduct at once? Maybe.

Thank you TANIA! (Director at - collab in the future🤔)

📣Calling all people who love to sing in Hamilton, ON!
What are you doing Wednesday after work? Doom scrolling? Netflix? Maybe both?
How about your give yourself a real dopamine hit and sing Lean On Me with some fellow music lovers?
It's for a good cause too. Canadian Mental Health Association of Hamilton gets all the proceeds. But let's face it, you get the immediate benefits:
•community joy • singing • creativity • philanthropy • Bill Withers • choir vibes • cool kids • inner peace • a less boring Wednesday • the satisfaction of beating your phone addiction for one night

See ya there Hamilton!


Register www.chorushamilton.ca
Pay what you can.

One Night Choir
Wednesday May 13 7-9pm
The Gasworks (141 Park St N)

See that head in the background? That's Brian.

50 years ago, he got stuck in choir class in junior high and hated every second. It wasn't cool. He never wanted to think about singing again.

Last year, someone convinced him to give it one more shot.

Now he's the guy photobombing all our recruitment posts.

Here's what he says now: "The music, the people, the performances — it was a hidden gem just waiting to be discovered."

If you've been on the fence all week, this is it. Tonight's rehearsal. 7:15pm at The Gasworks.

We still need lower voices (tenors, baritones, basses — any gender welcome).

No audition. No pressure. Just come see what it's actually like.

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