Welcome to the
Rachmaninoff Choir...
The Rachmaninoff Choir combines members of the Bowdoin College Chorus in Brunswick, Maine, and Down East Singers in Rockport, Maine and other singers from the Boston area. The Choir was formed in 1992 by Dr. Anthony Antolini. The ensemble’s specialty is Russian Orthodox choral music and the choral music of the USA. Depending on the concert, the group numbers between 60 and 80 singers. The Choir has performed all over Maine as well as in Boston, New Haven, St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, Montreal (Canada), Baltimore, The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and Middlebury, Vermont. Their most recent tours have been to St. Vasilios Greek Orthodox Church in Peabody, Massachusetts, San Francisco, California (Grace Cathedral), Stanford University, California; St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Saco, Maine, St. Sava’s Serbian Orthodox Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Holy Apostles Saints Peter & Paul Greek Orthodox Church in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
In 2002 the Choir toured Russia with concerts in Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk and St. Petersburg.
On the Choir’s 2009 concert tour to Europe, the group performed in Belgrade, Serbia; Sofia, Bulgaria; Thessaloniki, Lesvos and Athens, Greece.