The Flint Festival Chorus is a dynamic, 75 member volunteer chorus under the direction of Bradley Bloom. The Chorus presents several performances of major choral works each season.

Upcoming Appearances:

Flint Festival Chorus Concert

Friday, February 8, 2008, 7:30 pm
At First Presbyterian Church in Flint map

Schubert’s Mass in G
Benjamin Britten’s St. Nicolas Cantata

The former is well known to many audiences and very tuneful, as is the case with much of Schubert’s music.
The Britten piece is a beautiful and dramatic work about the saint that we have come to know as Saint Nick. The cantata outlines his rise to and reasons for sainthood and includes all kinds of colorful and musical effects. Audience participation on a couple of hymns and the story of a miraculous return of three deceased children mark some of the composition’s highlights.
For Tickets, call 810-237-3122 or see a Chorus member.

Saturday, March 15, 2008, 8:00 pm at The Whiting.
Francesco Maria Colombo, guest conductor
Amir Khosrowpour, piano, 2007 Byrd Winner
Women of the Flint Festival Chorus, Bradley Bloom, director

Mendelssohn, The Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave)
Vaughan Williams, Symphony No. 7 (Antarctica)

Saturday, April 12, 2008, 8:00 pm at The Whiting.
Augusto Diemecke, violin
Flint Festival Chorus, Bradley Bloom, director

Borodin, In the Steppes of Central Asia
Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
Villa-Lobos, Selections from The Discovery of Brazil


For tickets, call 810-237-7333 or 888-8CENTER or order online

Join the Chorus Do you love to sing? Do you enjoy a variety of music? Join the 75-voice Flint Festival Chorus for a great season of music-making. Sing your favorite holiday carols with the Flint Symphony Orchestra at Holiday Pops in December, perform in the beautiful First Presbyterian Church in February and return to The Whiting stage in April for the closing concert of the Flint Symphony Orchestra season. Join us for rehearsal Mondays from 7:00 - 9:30 pm in Room 174 at the Flint Institute of Music. Questions? Contact Flint Festival Chorus Director Bradley Bloom

Bradley Bloom, Director,
Flint Festival Chorus

Bradley Bloom Flint Festival Chorus Director

Bradley Bloom was selected in 1997 to head the Flint Festival Chorus. Bloom’s more than 25 years of experience includes a broad base of choral proficiency that spans from the professional to the amateur. He has prepared choirs for Robert Shaw, Sergiu Commissiona, John Nelson, Robert Fountain and other national artists. His conducting engagements have included the Ann Arbor Cantata Singers, University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club, Flint Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Ann Arbor Symphony and members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He has also served on the faculties of the Aspen Music Festival and the National Music Camp at Interlochen.

Bloom is the newly appointed Director of Choral Activities at Eastern Michigan University. He recently completed an appointment as Associate Dean for Administrative Affairs at the University of Michigan School of Music in Ann Arbor. Previously, he served as Professor of Music at Schoolcraft College where he conducted the Community Choir, the Schoolcraft Choir and Chamber Singers, and the vocal jazz ensemble. He designed and maintained one of the best music technology labs in the region at Schoolcraft College and founded the Learning Technologies Committee there. He conducted the Digital Music Ensemble and taught courses in music theory, music history and music technology. He also serves on the faculty of the University of Michigan as an adjunct professor in the Conducting Department.

Bloom received a master’s degree from the University of Michigan and a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) in conducting from the University of Iowa.

Flint Festival Chorus sponsored by A.G. Bishop Charitable Trust