Cantare seeks to foster a diverse community of compassion and understanding across generational, cultural, and economic boundaries through the beauty and power of choral music.
Upcoming Concerts
Pride and Joy: Rise Up Singing
Aurora, Nova, & Music Stars Youth Choirs
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 - 6:30pm; Oakland Temple Hill Auditorium
Our annual Fall youth concert celebrates our children, the pride and joy of our communities. Over 300 students from Cantare's youth choir programs will unite for an uplifting program featuring music from Civil Rights icons Mavis Staples and Curtis Mayfield and "Glory" from the movie Selma. This concert is free to attend!
Lead With Love
HolidayConcert
Chorale and Aurora & Nova youth choirs
Saturday, December 6, 2025 - 7:30pm; Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church
Sunday, December 7, 2025 - 4:00pm; First Presbyterian Church of Oakland
Our annual December holiday set, Lead with Love, is always a highlight for our audiences and will feature selections that focus on themes of the holiday season that include hope, promise, justice, love, peace, compassion, and unity. Included are works by Willan, Memley, Hailstork, Runestad, Ešenvalds, and others, including C. H. Johnson’s All of Us from Considering Matthew Shepard.
General: $44 | Senior: $39 | Student: $20
Get your tickets before December 1 for an early bird discount rate!
Newsletter Highlights
“Rise Up Singing”
“Next Wednesday, November 5th, over 300 students from Cantare’s five elementary choirs, and our Nova and Aurora youth choirs will take the stage for Pride and Joy: Rise Up Singing”
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“I absolutely adore the community. We all are here for the purpose of singing. We all are here for the purpose of raising our voices. We’re here to love each other and show that we stand together. I think that’s so beautiful about Cantare, because we always support each other. We’re here as a community and when something goes wrong, we pick each other up and face it together.”
– Prathana Pandey, Sophomore, Nova
2024-2025 Annual Report
Cantare’s 2024-2025 Annual Report is now available. Click the button below to see how your support this past year contributed towards our mission of Lifting Voice and Uplifting Lives through music!
ABOUT CANTARE
Youth and Adult Choir Programs
Youth Programs
Cantare’s innovative and inclusive in-school music education classes and afterschool choirs reach underserved Oakland children who lack access to the arts. We provide tuition-free choral music instruction led by experienced teaching artists—and offer students a safe, supportive, and fun experience through our multicultural curriculum.
“Cantare offers so much potential to all of our students through the world of music. Through hard work and determination, students learn to love music and how to work together as a team!”
–John Lee, Assistant Principal, Lincoln Elementary
Adult Choirs
Cantare’s auditioned 100-voice symphonic Chorale rehearses and performs a variety of compelling and challenging choral music during our concert season. Our non-auditioned Summer Adult Choir will return in June 2025.
