Los Angeles Master Chorale

Founded: 1964 as one of three original companies at the Music Center

Conductors: Grant Gershon, since 2001; Paul Salamunovich, 1991–2001; John Currie, 1986–1991; Roger Wagner, 1964–1986

Awards: ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming

Press: “the most exciting chorus in the country under Grant Gershon” — Los Angeles Times

“singing and direction are first-rate” — Billboard

“sonically exhilarating” — Gramophone

On disc: two recordings with Music Director Grant Gershon. You Are (Variations) by Steve Reich, released in September 2005 on Nonesuch Records, and an RCM recording featuring Esa-Pekka Salonen's first choral work, Two Songs to Poems of Ann Jäderlund, and Philip Glass' Itaipu. 

with Music Director Emeritus Paul Salamunovich includes the Grammy-nominated Lauridsen–Lux Aeterna, Christmas and a recording of Dominic Argento’s Te Deum and Maurice Duruflé’s Messe “Cum Jubilo”

motion picture soundtracks with Paul Salamunovich include A.I. Artificial Intelligence, My Best Friend’s Wedding, The Sum of All Fears, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Waterworld more