Join us for the annual Choral Festival featuring Fredonia's Camerata, Chamber Choir, College Choir, and the Fredonia High School Concert Choir. Our guest conductor this year is Malcolm Merriweather.

This is a ticketed event: $8 general admission (free for students)

GRAMMY-nominated conductor Malcolm J. Merriweather is Director of the New York Philharmonic Chorus and Music Director of New York City’s The Dessoff Choirs and Orchestra. He holds the Tania León Endowed Chair in Music at Brooklyn College.

Highlights of his 2025–2026 season include preparing the New York Philharmonic Chorus for world premieres by David Lang (The Wealth of Nations) and Ellen Reid (Earth Between Oceans), singing the baritone role in Mark Campbell and Peter Boyer’s A Hundred Years On with The Philadelphia Orchestra and The Crossing, and performing the title role in Frederick with Music Worcester. Celebrating his tenth anniversary with the Dessoff Choirs, he conducts Adolphus Hailstork’s The World Called, Bach’s Mass in B Minor with period orchestra, Herbert Howells’s Requiem, a reprise of Tania León’s It’s a journey, and prepares the chorus for two appearances with Andrea Bocelli at Madison Square Garden.

Merriweather is acclaimed for world premiere recordings of Margaret Bonds’s The Ballad of the Brown King, Credo, and Simon Bore the Cross (AVIE Records). At the invitation of Solange Knowles, he joined Saint Heron for Glory to Glory: A Revival of Devotional Art with Voices of Harlem and The Clark Sisters. His ensembles have appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Disney Concert Hall, Westminster Abbey, and before Pope Francis at the Vatican.