Community Chorus

Based in Greenville, NC

The Greenville Choral Society, which marked its 50th anniversary in 2019, has grown into perhaps the largest community-based performing arts organization in the eastern third of North Carolina, encompassing four choral ensembles that perform a wide variety of secular and sacred music in Pitt County and beyond.

The society grew out of an idea in 1969 to bring the music programs at East Carolina University and local churches together with talented local musicians. Choir directors at area churches met with ECU music faculty members in August 1969 to join "town and gown into a more personal and enduring relationship," according to an earlier history of the choral society. More than 100 people formed the Greenville Community Chorus a month later.

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