Welcome!
Please save the dates for our upcoming Christmas 2025 series
“Gabriel’s Message”
Our Artistic Director and Conductor, Mark Purcell, has gathered many beautiful and inspiring choral pieces to help us sing into the Christmas season. Along with voices of the choir, you’ll hear instrumentalists - including harp, percussion and our wonderful accompanist and piano soloist Lucy Faridany.
For our treasured Salinas audience members, please note our new location - Compass Church at 830 Padre Drive, Salinas.
In Monterey, we remain at First Presbyterian Chuch on El Dorado Street.
We know you’ll love this music as much as we do.
Check back soon for ticket and more information.
Want to help out?
Are you interested in assisting at an upcoming concert? Would you like to serve as an usher? Please drop a note to our House Manager and we will talk!
And, again, thank you to everyone who attended our Spring 2025 concerts. We loved the music we performed for you; your kind words and thoughts were truly appreciated.
We received many compliments on the repertoire, our overall performance and anticipation for future performances:
“Thank you for your heartfelt, emotion-invoking music this evening!”
“I can’t wait to see what else Mr. Purcell has in store!”
“Beautiful Music-making!”
- with love & appreciation, the Camerata Singers
October 13th, 2025
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Mark PurceIl
Artistic Director & Conductor
Mark Purcell comes to us as the current music department chair (where he has conducted the choir and music ensemble since 2006) at Santa Catalina School in Monterey. Read more about Mark here.
We couldn’t do what we do without our collaborative pianist, Lucy Faridany. Well-known in the area as a talented concert pianist and accompanist, Lucy contributes significantly to the performances of our ensemble; we are delighted to have Lucy as part of our music-making.
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Come Sing with us! Are you interested in singing in a chorus that is musically satisfying and personally warm and accepting?
If you are interested or have any questions, please get in touch with our president, Julia Turner, at juleyah@comcast.net. She will be happy to talk with you and set up an audition time.
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~ Support our local small businesses ~
These local retailers, who offer our concert tickets at the time of the concert, are small businesses in Monterey County. Please visit them throughout the year to offer your support; let them know how much you appreciate their ongoing support of Camerata Singers.
We appreciate and honor their support:
Bookmark Music
307 Forest Avenue, Pacific Grove
&
V.I.P. Salon
982 Park Row, Salinas
Our Carmelite Monastery experience
On Friday October 24th, 2025, the Camerata Singers joined with the Santa Catalina School choir for the 100th year celebration of St. Thésèse of Lisieux. When our conductor, Mark Purcell first joined us as our new Artistic Director, he mentioned the possibility of Camerata Singers' participation in the Carmelite Monastery’s Centenary Jubilee celebrating the life of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.
Accompanying 16 Camerata Singers and the Santa Catalina choir members were extraordinary accompanists Lucy Faridany, piano; Amalia, Diaz, violin; and Janneke Hoogland, cello.
Mark expertly guided our choral offerings throughout the mass, ushering a choir of diverse faiths into one body, offering praise, prayers, blessings, holiness — sacred.
Regardless of one’s religious beliefs, the memory of this once-in-a-lifetime, beautiful and stirring mass will live in our hearts and minds, as well as in those of the hundreds of those in attendance.
St. Thésèse, only twenty-four when she died, was wise beyond her years. She left a legacy extolling the virtue of "Little Ways”— growing in holiness by doing small, ordinary things with great love.
This event, we shall long remember.
This is was not a Camerata Singers event, but to learn more about it please follow this link for more information on our performance and other 100th year anniversary activities.
Camerata Singers is able to bring wonderful choral music to the community with the generous support of our donors, big and small. Your financial support is what keeps us going. Join our Camerata community by donating today!
Watch this space…. Camerata Singers is honored to again participate in the fabulous “Monterey County Gives!” Fundraising event. Starting November 13th, 2025 your financial support will garner us a match in donated funds….
Check back then!
Keep in touch - Want to be the first to know about our upcoming plans? Give us your name and email address and we’ll add you to our email list!
Be an advertiser….
Do you own a business? Would you like to advertise in an upcoming concert program? We’d love to have you as a sponsor. Your ad will continue in each of our concert programs throughout the season.
With an ad purchase, you’ll receive complimentary tickets to our concerts.
Contact us here for more info:
PO Box 428
Salinas, California
93902
Camerata Singers thanks the Arts Council for their generous programmatic support….
We couldn’t do it without you!