our history

Founded in 1979, Lincoln Choral Artists is an auditioned, adult community choir of singers from Lincoln and nearby communities. Lincoln Choral Artists presents an annual season of concerts and outreach events, including a fall concert, winter holiday caroling in the community, an annual gala fundraiser, a spring concert, collaborations with other local performing arts organizations, and singing at Lincoln Saltdogs games and various community and nonprofit events throughout the summer. In 1992, Lincoln Choral Artists presented the area premiere of Ron Nelson's “Te Deum Laudamus” with the Military Band of the Heartland along with one of the first performances of Omaha composer Randall Stroope's “Hodie” with the Plymouth Brass. In the spring of 1995, the choir appeared in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City. In May 1997, the choir performed with the Military Band of the Heartland in a concert featuring the music of Howard Hansen. LCA regularly joins the Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir and Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra in concerts at the Lied Center and other venues. Performances of this type have included Rachmaninoff's “Vespers,” Orff's “Carmina Burana,” and Mozart's “Grand Mass in C Minor.” In March 2006, the choir made its first guest appearance with the Omaha Symphony Orchestra, and in 2013 LCA performed Steven Paulus' powerful Holocaust oratorio, "To Be Certain of the Dawn.”