Columbia Pro Cantare

Columbia Pro Cantare
5404 Iron Pen Place
Columbia, MD 21044
Voice: 410-730-8549
410-799-9321
Fax: 410-730-8634
Tickets: 301-854-0107 or 410-799-9321
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The Columbia Pro Cantare is a mixed chorus of over 100 volunteer singers which seeks to present the finest choral music to a growing regional audience. Since the Spring of 1977, the Columbia Pro Cantare has delighted Howard County audiences with its concerts of music ranging from opera and oratorio to show tunes and spirituals. 

Founded in February, 1977, by Director Frances Motyca Dawson, as a professionally trained volunteer chorus to sing with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at its Howard County concerts and to bring high quality musical experiences to local audiences with its own independent performances, CPC has more than fulfilled its purpose over the last quarter century.

Inspired by the late James Rouse's vision of Columbia as a place where people can grow and find expression for their artistic talents, Frances Dawson has built a choral group described by the Baltimore Sun as "one of the elite choirs in Maryland" and by the American Record Guide as one of the choral groups that are the "musical hubs of their communities."