The United States Naval Academy Glee Club has achieved national prominence as one of America’s premier choral ensembles.  Recent appearances on network television include The Kennedy Center Honors (CBS), The Today Show (NBC), The Early Show (CBS), Christmas in Washington (NBC and TNT), Good Morning, America (ABC), and multiple features on PBS.  The ensemble has been seen performing in New York’s Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, San Diego’s Copley Symphony Hall, and Washington’s Kennedy Center and has performed extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad including Japan, Chile, Argentina, and multiple European tours with performances at St. Peters in the Vatican, cathedrals in Brussels, Wells, Winchester, Salisbury, and St. Paul’s in London. 

Performing masterpieces of choral-orchestral literature with many of the nation’s leading orchestras, the Glee Club’s most recent collaborations include Dallas Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, Portland Symphony, Boston Pops Orchestra, Charlotte Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Columbus Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Nashville Symphony, and Minnesota Orchestra. 

In addition to the Academy’s annually sold-out concerts of Handel’s Messiah with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, symphonic repertoire has included Britten’s War Requiem, Bernstein’s Candide, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Requiems by Brahms, Durufle, Dvorak, Mozart, and Verdi, Haydn’s Creation, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Orff’s Carmina Burana, and Vaughan-Williams’ A Sea Symphony among many others.  Additional notable appearances include the Inaugural Concert “We Are One” performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for a live audience of over half a million and an internationally televised audience, the dedication ceremony of the National Pentagon Memorial, the Commissioning of the George H. W. Bush Aircraft Carrier (CVN-77), concert tours of Georgia, Texas, California, Minnesota, Illinois, and Puerto Rico, a performance with Chanticleer, the official JFK 50^th Commemoration in Dallas, TX, broadcasts of USNA’s annual Messiah performances, a feature as the definitive National Anthem on a P.B.S. documentary, and a highly acclaimed concert at Carnegie Hall. 

It is with honor, pride and distinction that the Glee Club represents the United States, the Navy and Marine Corps, and the Naval Academy.