Wheatland Chorale

The Wheatland Chorale was founded in 1987 and, with the exception of a two-year hiatus caused by Covid-19, has maintained a regular concert schedule, offering performances in December and April/May each year. Our current Artistic Director, David J. Fitzpatrick, is the third in the Chorale’s history. David assumed the position in fall 2023 and has catalyzed exciting change for the organization.

David led the Chorale through our first ever strategic planning process, in which a steering committee and dozens of Chorale members created an intentional roadmap to expand the Chorale’s reach and keep the organization vital and relevant for years to come. We were fortunate to have the opportunity to work with a consultant who offered valuable professional guidance that was critical to ensuring a purposeful plan with aspirational but reasonable goals.

 The Wheatland Chorale is dedicated to deepening our impact and relevance for the local community. Many of our strategic plan goals are aimed at collaborations which will allow us to expand our audience as well as our donor pool. We are dedicated to preserving Wheatland’s core mission to provide excellent choral music, while exploring new avenues for audience involvement. We recognize the critical importance of acknowledging a diversifying population in the communities we serve and we strive towards evolving the Chorale into an organization that explicitly welcomes that audience. We are excited to launch a three-year engagement of Tina Davidson, who will serve as composer in residence and will produce a commissioned work for the Chorale at the end of her tenure, featuring the experience of refugees in Lancaster.