Pandora’s Box

Chamber choir · DC & Baltimore

Pandora’s
Box

Music with stakes.

Next: Rose Ever Blooming · Washington, DC · Bethesda, MD

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Pandora’s Box brings together professional singers from the Washington and Baltimore area for music that asks something of us—as performers and listeners. We build our concerts around works we can’t leave alone, and invite you to hear what keeps us coming back.

Season One · 2026–27

Obsession

Some ideas demand a lifetime’s attention. Our first season explores devotion and the desire for freedom: the stories we return to, the convictions we hold, and the extraordinary music they inspire.

Georges de La Tour’s painting The Newborn: in candlelight, a woman shields the flame with her raised hand while Mary looks down at the swaddled Child in her arms.
Georges de La Tour, The Newborn, c. 1645–48. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes.

December 2026

Rose Ever Blooming

A Concert of Carols Through the Ages

A familiar story, heard anew. Distler’s telling of the Christmas story weaves solo voices and choir around the returning melody of “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming.” Music by Pérotin and Poston completes a program of wonder, tenderness, and devotion.

  • Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes, Washington, DC
  • Westmoreland Congregational United Church of Christ, Bethesda, MD

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Who’s singing

Conductor Andrew Welch

Soprano
Amanda DensmoorDer Engel
Nicole Vernot-Jonas
Kerry HolahanElisabeth
Alto
Matilda SmolijMaria
Charlotte Stewart
Grace ‘Kai’ Kiver
Tenor
Patrick Kilbride
John Logan Wood
John MullanDer Erzähler
Bass
Collin PowerSimeon
Tommy Rust
Corbin PhillipsHerodes

Solo roles in the Distler appear under each singer’s name.

May 2027

Figure humaine

with Barnwell, Hogan, and Wolfe

Poulenc’s Figure humaine sets Paul Éluard’s poetry in twelve unaccompanied vocal parts, culminating in a declaration of liberty. Alongside music by Barnwell, Hogan, and Wolfe, it anchors a program about the need to speak, the longing for freedom, and the strength we find in singing together.

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