Chris Shepard, Music Director
Carol Walker, Assistant Director

Dr. Martin Sedek has been named the fifth Music Director of Masterwork Chorus, starting September 2024. Learn more about Dr. Sedek here.

Founded in 1955, the non-profit chorus is dedicated to enrich, delight and support the cultural life of the community through high-quality inspiring choral performances.

With three major concerts each year, Masterwork has performed throughout New Jersey as well as Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall and Kennedy Center in Washington. Since 1961, the chorus has returned to Carnegie Hall every year for its signature performance of Handel’s Messiah (the group has performed more than 260 Messiah performances).

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Many singers are long-time members and only four conductors have led Masterwork Chorus since the founding. The Masterwork Chorus is a warm and welcoming group celebrating the joy of music. Everyone is more than welcome.

Masterwork has a small choral chamber ensemble named Women’s Ensemble, an Alumni Association, a community outreach program, informal Summer Sings and ReachOut performances for senior citizens in assisted living and health care centers, patients in hospitals and rehabilitation facilities.

A Decade of Choral Favorites

A Decade of Choral Favorites

Masterwork performs a selection of our most cherished repertoire. A decade-long retrospective with pieces by Leonard Bernstein, FJ Haydn, J.S. Bach, Richard Charlton, and Martin Sedek.

Saturday, May 11, 2024 7:30 pm
Chatham United Methodist Church
Conductor: Chris Shepard
Summer Sings 2024

Summer Sings 2024

Wednesday Evenings at 7:30 pm
Chatham United Methodist Church
460 Main Street, Chatham, NJ 07928

We are thrilled to host Masterwork Chorus’s annual Summer Sings!! Come enjoy a full season of Summer Sings and choral camaraderie.

We provide the conductor, accompanist, and professional soloists and you provide the voices!

Tickets are $15.00 per person, per sing for non-members, $10 for Masterwork Members and Alumni.  Tickets will be available at the door, including packets of 5 tickets for $65.

Wednesday, June 19, 2024 7:30 pm
Conductor: Thomas Juneau (Director, Summit Chorale, Director of Choral Activities, Wagner College

Bruckner’s Te Deum 

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 7:30 pm
Conductor: Matthew Zabiegala (Concord Singers and Wagner College)

Faure’s Requiem and Amy Beach’s Festival Jubilate

Wednesday, July 10, 2024 7:30 pm
Conductor: Martin Sedek (Masterwork Chorus)

Mozart’s Requiem

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 7:30 pm
Conductor: Anne Matlack (Harmonium Choral Society)

TBD

Wednesday, July 24, 2024 7:30 pm
Conductor: Jason Tramm (Director of choral activities, Seton Hall University)

Verdi’s Requiem

Wednesday, July 31, 2024 7:30 pm
Conductor: Chris Shepard (Worcester Chorus, Concora)

Mendelssohn’s Elijah

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

— Benjamin Disraeli