Rackham Choir

With innovative repertoire, high artistic standards, enduring history, and community involvement, Rackham Choir has been sharing the joy, excitement, and healing power of choral music across the region for more than 70 years. Rackham’s concerts, collaborative productions, and outreach programs regularly explore new approaches to choral performance, and often include local premiers of works, and pieces with relevant social or historical contexts. Led by Artistic Director Julian Goods, our volunteer singers—representing dozens of communities and wide-ranging ethnic, social, and religious backgrounds—employ a professional approach toward musicality while enjoying the camaraderie of making great music together.

Rackham Choir has collaborated with Detroit art institutions such as Michigan Opera Theatre, The Detroit Symphony, Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, and the Eisenhower Dance Ensemble. Rackham Choir has performed in several of Detroit's most famous live music venues including the Max Fisher/Orchestra Hall, the Fox Theatre, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and The Detroit Opera House. The Choir has worked with Alvin Waddles, Thomas Beveridge, Gian Carlo Menotti, Henry Mollicone, David Fanshawe and Richard Einhorn as well as internationally acclaimed Soloists such as Alfreda Burke, Roderick Dixon, Sean Panikkar, Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, Victor Trent Cook, and Thomas Young.

Rackham Choir appears on Naxos records together with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, in a recording of Hannibal Lokumbe’s "Dear Mrs Parks".