
Each fall and spring the ensemble performs a repertoire of classics and rarely heard works by composers from the Renaissance to the present in Leighton Concert Hall. The Notre Dame Chorale, the University’s 60-voice concert choir, draws on students from every college and department of the University. The Collegium Musicum performs programs each spring and fall in the Reyes Organ and Choral Hall in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, and periodically in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. It is open to all members of the Notre Dame and greater South Bend community. The Collegium Musicum is a small vocal ensemble specializing in sacred and secular music from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras. Their newest CD, On the Rocky Road to Dublin, was released in August of 2012.


In 2005 they toured in Mexico and Central America, and returned to Guatemala in May and June of 2009 with the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra they toured northern Spain, including a pilgrimage on foot along the Camino de Santiago, in May and June of 2013.Īmong several Glee Club recordings are Shake Down the Thunder (1989), Under the Dome (1999), In dulci jubilo (2001), Vive la compagnie (2005), and Beautiful Rain (2007). In 1997 the Glee Club appeared in Israel with the Jerusalem Symphony and in 2001 the Glee Club toured Asia, singing in Singapore, Bangkok, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong (with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta), and Taipei. In the course of regular European tours (most recently in the spring of 2011), the Club has performed in Ireland, England, France, Spain, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and the Czech Republic.

In recent years the Club has performed on tour in over 40 U.S. The membership is drawn from all courses of study at the university. Founded in 1915, the 75-voice Notre Dame Glee Club presents a wide-ranging repertory in several formal campus concerts as well as in dozens of informal performances at University events.
