MARCH 14-15, 2025
Ottumwa, Mt. Pleasant, and Burlington

Members of the OACC Adult Chorus joined singers from all over SE Iowa and the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra (SEISO) to perform the magnificent “Beethoven’s 9th Symphony”, with the well-known “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee” theme. The chorus sang the entire 23-minute long final movement; all performed in German.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2026 Mt. Pleasant, Iowa (Chapel Auditorium)

SEISO (Southease Iowa Symphony Orchestra) added a NEW concert this year, which featured the recently formed SEISO CHILDREN’S CHORUS. 40 children from 12 different SE Iowa cities participated in this MOST ENJOYABLE concert about love and friendship!

FEBRUARY 7, 2026 Burlington-Old Capitol Theater

Music and film combined for an unforgettable evening featuring the iconic silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) with live orchestral and choral accompaniment.

Link to details about “Voices of Light”: https://www.richardeinhorn.com/voices-of-light-1

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2025 Mt. Pleasant, Iowa (Chapel Auditorium)

SEISO’S (Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra) Annual HollyDaze Concert featured the SEISO ADULT CHORUS and the recently formed SEISO CHILDREN’S CHORUS, which included 52 (!) children from 14 different cities in SE Iowa!

The 2025 SEISO HollyDaze Concert was once again enjoyed by singers and audience members alike, with approximately 700 attendees in the audience this year!

NOVEMBER 23, 2025
First Presbyterian Church, Ottumwa

OACC hosted our THIRD exciting “Biennial Messiah Sing Along” after our previous two “Messiah Sing Along” concerts were so well-received and appreciated by both performers and attendees, alike. We invited any singers that were high school age or older from anywhere in SE Iowa to participate in this event.

MARCH 8-9, 2025
Ottumwa, Mt. Pleasant, and Burlington

Members of the OACC Adult Chorus joined singers from all over SE Iowa to perform a powerful and beautiful five-movement work called “Illuminare”, composed by an Iowa composer named Elaine Hagenberg.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2025 Mt. Pleasant, Iowa (Chapel Auditorium)

(postponed from December due to weather!!)

In addition to the SEISO Adult Chorus, SEISO sponsored a BRAND NEW SEISO CHILDREN’S CHORUS in 2024, which included 45 children from 13 different cities from all over SE Iowa! The HollyDaze Concert is a uniquely beautiful and exciting concert, and is an unforgettable experience for singers of all ages.

Saturday, March 18, 2023 | 7:30 PM
Bridge View Center, Ottumwa

Many OACC adult chorus singers performed with others from SE Iowa in the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra’s (SEISO) “Masterworks II-Mystical Footprints” Concert! The collaborative chorus (w/OACC singers) performed Wagner's triumphant Prelude and Bridal Chorus from the opera Lohengrin (“here comes the bride”, but in German!), followed by Willamette Spencer’s “At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners” and Vaughan Williams’ “Five Mystical Songs” featuring soloist baritone Blair Buffington. These concerts evening also included a performance by the Marilyn Minford McCoid Young Artist Competition winner Mattias Luitjens, playing Henryk Górecki's relentless Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.

The “Masterworks Series Concerts” are presented by SEISO three times a year, and they are performed in three cities all in one weekend. These performances are given in Ottumwa, Mt. Pleasant, and Burlington. For tickets and more information about other upcoming performances and concerts, visit www.SEISO.us

Sunday, January 15, 2023 | 2:00 PM First Presbyterian Church, Ottumwa

The Ottumwa Area Community Chorus (both adults and children) accepted an invitation to perform in the Ottumwa City-Wide Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday! The celebration took place on Sunday, January 15th, at 3:00 PM, at First Presbyterian Church. Other local choruses joined OACC for a final powerful song, and we performed a song entitled “I Have a Dream” on our own as well. This was a very important and meaningful event, and we were humbled and grateful to be asked to be a part of it!!

We recently presented a full-length fall concert entitled “Anything Goes”, which featured some of our favorite songs from all of our previous fall concerts, selected by our singers! Themes from past fall concerts included “Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber”, “Disney Extravaganza”, “African-American Spirituals and Songs from South Africa”, and “I Got Rhythm-Music of Gershwin”.

After the significant challenges faced by all performance groups due to the long-lasting aftereffects of the impact of COVID-19, OACC made a conscious decision to try and find a way to breathe new life back into our two community choruses.  The decision was made to invite singers from Ottumwa and Southeast Iowa to join with OACC in order to perform a “Messiah Sing Along”, as an excellent way to accomplish this critically important goal, both for the OACC and for the other choirs from which many of the singers came.

OACC typically caravans all over the Ottumwa community to rehab centers and nursing homes, on an annual “two-hour tour”; singing 15-20 minutes worth of Christmas Carols in 4- part harmony. Since it was not possible to go to any of these places and sing for all the residents and patients in the midst of COVID-19, we decided to perform a virtual (no audience) Christmas Eve Service, in which singers were placed at least 8’ apart, in every other pew, and fully masked for the entire service.