The San Antonio Chamber Choir (SACC) is completing its twentieth anniversary season. SACC has provided art of the highest professional quality through choral music and singing. The ensemble is made up of professional singers, originating from San Antonio and surrounding areas. Many of the singers are active performers or music educators throughout the San Antonio area. SACC members have worked passionately to engage with all areas and peoples of the San Antonio community with concert offerings, summer choir camps, and weekly gatherings of the Alamo City Street Choir which serves many unhoused neighbors. Under the current direction of Artistic Director, Richard Bjella, SACC singers apply their musicianship and diverse experiences to elevate the choir to new heights of excellence. SACC was founded in 2005 and since then has offered concert experiences in exquisite venues throughout the state of Texas.
Since its founding, SACC has performed more than five hundred works on seventy programs in nine Texas cities with a repertoire ranging from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries. SACC has a growing presence in San Antonio that is reflected in their diverse and innovative programming. The organization has had two Artistic Directors – Scott MacPherson and Richard Bjella. Bjella joined SACC in 2014 when MacPherson moved on to Ohio for work at Kent State University. Since 2018, SACC has presented three successful productions in the H-E-B Performance Hall at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. SACC has collaborated with other musical organizations such as the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio, Children’s Chorus of San Antonio, the SA Philharmonic, SOLI Chamber Ensemble, as well as various local high school, church, and college choirs.
SACC has commissioned new works from American composers including Jake Runestad, Shawn Kirchner, Andrew Rindfleisch, Kyle Pederson and Stacey V. Gibbs. In addition, SACC has presented concerts for audiences at professional conferences of the Texas Choral Directors Association (2014) and the American Choral Directors Association (2013). SACC is privileged to also offer two community connection programs. First, SACC offers the All-State for ALL Choir Camp to high school choir students which includes three days of intensive music-learning of the TMEA All-State Choir audition repertoire. And the Alamo City Street Choir offers a musical outlet for those experiencing homelessness and severe disadvantage. SACC is committed to providing programming that helps others to find joy through singing.
