Previous Performances
Please click here for a complete list of our previous performances, from 2016 to 2026.
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Please click here for a complete list of our previous performances, from 2016 to 2026.
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.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
Quincy Place Mall, Ottumwa
OACC was once again invited to perform in the “Viva Ottumwa International Festival”, on Saturday, September 7th. We were sincerely honored and happy to be invited to help celebrate the many different ethnic cultures found among the residents of Ottumwa and the surrounding area.
DECEMBER 9, 2023 First United Methodist Church-Mt. Pleasant, IA
OACC once again received an exciting invitation to have BOTH our children’s chorus AND our adult chorus join other adult singers from all over SE Iowa as we perform with the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra (SEISO) in their annual Hollydaze concert this year!
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023
First Presbyterian Church, Ottumwa
OACC hosted our SECOND exciting “Messiah Sing Along” after our “First Annual Messiah Sing Along” was so well-received and appreciated by both performers and attendees, alike. Click on the photo above for details and a video recording of our performance.
Sunday, May 7, 2023 | 3:00 PM
Chapel Auditorium, Mt. Pleasant
Click here for some amazing photos and links to video recordings made by audience members from this deeply moving and beautiful final concert in the beautiful chapel of Iowa Wesleyan University.
Sunday, April 23, 2023 | 2:00 PM
Bridge View Center, Ottumwa
The Ottumwa Area Community Chorus was selected to be the recipient for the 2023 Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra’s (SEISO) annual Ruth P. Seim Memorial Concert for a Cause in Ottumwa! The invitation was to both of our choirs and included both adults and children singers. All participating singers also received FREE admission to the symphony concert following our performance!
A portion of all $20 SEISO concert tickets was donated to the Ottumwa Area Community Chorus. It was a deeply appreciated show of support of OACC by SEISO, and was a great way for both singers and audience members to experience music and help support the arts in our community!
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!!
Saturday, December 10, 2022 IWU Chapel, Mt. Pleasant, IA
OACC received an exciting and special invitation to have BOTH our children’s chorus AND our adult chorus perform with the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra (SEISO) in their annual Hollydaze concert this year! What a powerful and unforgettable experience for these children, to be able to actually sing with a full professional symphony orchestra!! This performance took place in the beautiful chapel of the IWU campus, in Mt. Pleasant, IA, on December 10, 2022.
When the national touring production, “ABBA-Solutely Christmas Show”, came to perform at the Bridge View Center in Ottumwa on Thursday, December 8, the Ottumwa Area Community Children’s Chorus was invited to perform with them, on stage!! This was a uniquely exciting opportunity for our young singers to perform with a professional touring show, and a way for us to lend some local talent to this homage to the iconic Swedish pop group, ABBA. It was an excellent show and made for a memorable and fun-filled evening for all!
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”.
OACC was once again invited to perform in the “Viva Ottumwa International Festival”, in which we were honored and happy to help celebrate the many different ethnic cultures found among the residents of Ottumwa and the surrounding area.
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.
The Ottumwa Area Community Chorus presents its 2019 Fall concert, “I Got Rhythm”, featuring the exciting and masterful music of George Gershwin (1898-1937). The concert will feature both the adult and children’s choruses, performing separately as well as together. The program includes examples of the wide range of styles, tempos, and compositional techniques so masterfully used by Gershwin, including the influences of classical, jazz, and popular music.
The Ottumwa Area Community Chorus presents its 2018 Fall concert, “A Million Dreams”, featuring African American Spirituals and Songs from South Africa. African American spirituals are an integral and powerful part of the history of our country. They represent the period of time when the south allowed slavery to flourish and were commonly found both before and during civil war times.
The Ottumwa Area Community Chorus, under the new direction of Dr. Christine Bergan, presents its 2016 Fall concert, “An Evening of Andrew Lloyd Webber.” The Ottumwa Area Community Chorus was originally founded as a chorus for adult singers only, however, Dr. Bergan has developed a brand-new community children’s chorus for the first time in its history.