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Anchorage Concert Chorus 2025-2026 Season
Our Mission
To serve Anchorage and surrounding communities by fostering excellence in choral music through world-class vocal performance, community events, and music education.
Our Staff
Board of Directors 2024-2025 Season
Concert Support Staff
- October 25: Center Stage - A Broadway Celebration
December 7: 78th annual Messiah - December 21: Holiday Pops 2025
- April 25: Beethoven 9
Our Mission
To serve Anchorage and surrounding communities by fostering excellence in choral music through world-class vocal performance, community events, and music education.
Our Staff
- Grant Cochran, Artistic Director
- Stephen McLallen, Managing Director
- Janet Carr-Campbell, Accompanist
Board of Directors 2024-2025 Season
- President
- Becky Oberrecht
- Vice President
- Heidi Herbert-Lovern (Orchestra Manager, Member at Large, Community Member)
- Immediate Past Presidents
- Nan Magrath, FY21
- Megan Sandone, FY19
- Treasurer
- John Fraser
- Recording Secretary
- Megan Sandone
- Lisa Geist, Membership Chair
- Katy Kerris, Archives & Membership
- Lora Nordstrom, Marketing Chair
- Jeri Rubin, Donor Development
- Barbara Digert, New Member
- Emily Blahous, New Member
- Carla Erickson, New Member
- Karl Hageman & Shaun Baines, Librarians
- Janet McCulloch, Community Messiah Coordinator
- Shaun Baines, Tour Coordinator
- Sarah Cleary, Youth Outreach Coordinator
Concert Support Staff
- Bernie Helms, Stage Manager
- Lucy Peckham, Audio Technical Director
- Stephen Crawford, Production Manager
Lorene Harrison, ACC Founder, at her 100th birthday party.
She was joined by the Chorus and 2,000 of her closest friends.
She was joined by the Chorus and 2,000 of her closest friends.
Our Legacy
ACC’s existence in the Alaska community has been long and successful. Founded in 1947 by Lorene Harrison, the Chorus is a mainstay in Anchorage’s arts community.
Affiliations
Community Service
Community Outreach & Education
If you'd like to partner with the Chorus to make our performances accessible to underrepresented audiences through outreach and/or removing financial barriers, please email [email protected].
Our Accomplishments
ACC’s existence in the Alaska community has been long and successful. Founded in 1947 by Lorene Harrison, the Chorus is a mainstay in Anchorage’s arts community.
Affiliations
- Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, Resident Company
- Chorus America, Member in Good Standing
Community Service
- Special Community Events on request, such as Heroes Welcome, 50th Anniversary of Statehood celebrations
- Annual Community “Messiah” Sponsor
- Annual Mayor’s Tree Lighting Ceremony
- Annual Anchorage Museum of History and Art Holiday Program
Community Outreach & Education
- Complimentary tickets for disadvantaged youth and adults
- Student Vocal Competition & Winner’s Recital for Vocal Lesson Scholarships
- High School and College Student Mentorship Scholarships
If you'd like to partner with the Chorus to make our performances accessible to underrepresented audiences through outreach and/or removing financial barriers, please email [email protected].
Our Accomplishments
- Year 2000 Recipient of the Eleanor Sullivan Humanitarian Award, presented by Soroptimist International of Anchorage
- Year 2000 Recipient of the Governor’s Award for Outstanding Arts Organization
- Tours to Ireland, Italy, Czech Republic, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Central and Eastern Europe, Scotland, England, Wales, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Austria
- Fifth Place, Mixed Chorus Competition, Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, 1996