Summary
Organization name
Richardson Community Chorale
Tax id (EIN)
81-3875829
Causes
Arts & Humanities
Operating Budget
Less than $100,000
Counties Served
Collin, Dallas
Address
P. O. Box 836754Richardson, TX 75083
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The Richardson Community Chorale is a non-auditioned choral ensemble. Everyone who loves to sing is welcome. From its inception, the focus of the Richardson Community Chorale (RCC) has been to make Richardson a singing city where everyone can come together to join their voices in song. We seek to provide a fun, musically enriching environment by presenting repertoire that will both entertain and inspire audiences of all ages and interests. The RCC strives to have a positive impact on the community through performances of choral music that range from well-known masterworks to musical theater and popular classics, as well as presenting premiers of new compositions.
Our motto is Sing for Joy! Adhering to this motto has enabled the RCC to grow in both membership and audience size since our first concert in December of 2016. We are entirely supported by donations, grants, and membership dues, as RCC concerts are open to the public free of charge.
The Richardson Community Chorale’s 2026-2027 season begins with our 10th Birthday Performance (free to the public) on September 19th at 3pm at First United Methodist Church Richardson. It's been an incredible 10 years with our singers and the community and we're so excited to celebrate through song! After our 10th Birthday we'll continue our fall semester with a recording project of a few songs to be highlighted on YouTube as well as social media. We love being able to share our gifts with people far and wide through our recordings. Closing out the fall will be our annual Home for the Holidays concert (free to the public) on December 18th at 7pm at First United Methodist Church Richardson. This festive tradition will feature many of your favorite carols and holiday songs.
The RCC's spring semester will kick off with our Love Songs concert, another tradition we began a few years ago, where we sing some of the all-time greatest love songs ever written. This free performance will be on February 13th at 3pm at Richardson City Hall in the City Hall Chamber. Our final performance of the spring will be our 10th Anniversary Sing for Joy concert. This exciting performance will highlight favorites from our 10 years of singing together. You'll hear a wide variety of repertoire that will have something for everyone to enjoy. We'll close our 2026-2027 season with a joint Memorial Day Tribute Concert with the Richardson Community Band. This performance will be at First United Methodist Church Richardson on May 30th at 7pm.
Our singers pay a fee to participate, and we receive a grant from the City of Richardson's Cultural Arts Commission as well as the Richardson Woman's Club Charitable Foundation. Because our concerts and smaller performances are presented FREE of charge, we depend on donations to help us defray the cost of rehearsal space, performance venues, professional services, sheet music, and business expenses.
COMMUNITY IMPACT: Our concerts are open to everyone. In addition, RCC reaches out to those who are unable to attend our concerts by performing in various underserved communities such as nursing homes, senior centers, hospitals, libraries, and at civic events.
We encourage people from all walks of life to enjoy the beauty of choral music. Our singers come from a diverse variety of backgrounds, and our scholarship program allows us to include singers who could not otherwise participate. In recent years, over 60 singers have been a part of the RCC. We have collaborated with other musical groups in the area to present excellent music each year to hundreds of residents of Richardson and surrounding communities.
Our Needs
The RCC performs in various underserved communities such as nursing facilities, senior centers, hospitals, libraries, day cares, community civic events, etc. for those who are unable to attend our concerts.
Donations support two major concerts each season, two mini-concerts, and performances for various community and civic events, all at no charge to attendees. In addition to paying rental fees for rehearsal and performance facilities, the Richardson Community Chorale provides a paid professional director and accompanist, as well as sheet music and musical training to those members lacking in skills and financial resources. RCC's goal is to continue to expand our outreach to the community, especially to the underserved in our community. To meet this goal we need community support.
Please support our goal by making a donation to the RICHARDSON COMMUNITY CHORALE.
Goal: $12,000.00.
Mission
The Richardson Community Chorale seeks to engage people of all ages within our local and surrounding communities in the enjoyment of a wide variety of choral music by performing in or listening to free, creative, and artistic concerts.
Needs
The Richardson Community Chorale offers free concerts to the communities in their performance areas of Dallas and Collin counties. We look for financial support in the community to allow us to continue bringing free, diverse musical programming. We are engaged in improvements to our performance quality and marketing and are looking for support in those areas.
Equity Statement
The Richardson Community Chorale believes that diversity has many aspects: race, sex, gender identity, age, culture, disability, socioeconomic status, and belief system, among others. We welcome all singers, without regard to these differences and without requiring an audition, to come together and sing as one.
The RCC is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, both in the makeup of the Chorale and in the provision of free performances to the entire community. We believe that music should be inclusive and available to all.
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Richardson, TX 75083