About us

The Virginia Symphony Orchestra Chorus is now in its twenty-first season, and its fifteenth under the direction of Chorus Master Robert Shoup.  In addition to regular appearances with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, the chorus has performed outside Hampton Roads to remarkable acclaim.  Under the baton of Mr. Shoup, the Chorus has traveled to sold-out houses as far afield as Prague, Vienna, Berlin, Leipzig, Munich, Salzburg and closer to home at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. 

The Chorus has appeared twice at the Breckenridge Music Festival in Colorado, and was an integral part of the 400^th anniversary of Jamestown Celebration.  In 2010 the chorus was a key participant in the Virginia Arts Festival production of Bernstein's Mass, and in 2011 recorded Adolphus Hailstork's "Launch Out On Endless Seas" for the Naxos label.