Conducted by Delta David Gier
Special Guest Conductor

Enjoy the outstanding musical artistry of Camerata Chicago and its wonderful choir performing the Messiah (Part I – Christmas) by Handel with the Hallalujah Chorus and Zadok the Priest. At the heart of our elite choir are some of the top choristers in Chicago.

Delta David Gier

Special Guest Conductor

We have four wonderful soloists conducted by Maestro Gier:

Soprano Emily Richter
Mezzosoprano Lauren Decker
Tenor Daniel Espinal
Bass Baritone Laureano Quant

Clockwise: Soprano Emily Richter; Mezzosoprano Lauren Decker; Bass Baritone Laureano Quant; Tenor Daniel Espinal;

 We are very grateful to the Tyndale House Foundation
for their generous support of this sacred music series.

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Hallelujah Chorus: At these concerts the Camerata Chicago Orchestra and Choir will perform the famous and celebrated Hallelujah Chorus. We’ll perform it twice – the second time giving you the opportunity to join in for a truly rousing finale to this fabulous sacred music performance.

We have four fabulous soloists conducted by Delta David Gier for the Messiah 2025:
December 12 in Chicago
December 13 in Naperville
December 14 in Hinsdale:

Delta David Gier – Conductor

Maestro Gier has been Music Director of the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra (SDSO) since 2004 and served as an Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic for 15 seasons. Gier has conducted the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Emily Richter – Soprano

Emily Richter is a lyric soprano based in Chicago, IL. Having benefited from growing up all over the world from Zimbabwe to Armenia and living in musical centers such as London and Tokyo, Emily truly has a global perspective on what it means to be an artist. Soprano Emily Richter is a 2024 Grand Finals Winner of The Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition. She is thrilled to be joining the Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago for the 2025/2026 season and Camerata Chicago for its annual production of The Messiah.

Lauren Decker – Contralto

Rising star, Lauren Decker, possesses a booming contralto with “amber low notes” that is in a league of its own. She is lauded for “pouring out a dark, chocolatey sound with a plushness of tone and amplitude of voice rarely heard in a young singer”.

Ms. Decker recently covered the role of Erda in Das Rheingold and Siegfried, 1st Norn in Götterdämmerung, and performed Schwertleite in Die Walküre as a part of David Pountney’s “brilliantly imaginative”, new Ring Cycle at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. … read more.

Daniel Espinal – Tenor

A second-year Ryan Opera Center member, the Cuban-Dominican tenor from Sarasota received a 2025 Sara Tucker Study Grant and was a national winner of the 2024 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. In Lyric’s 2024/25 Season he sang Jacquino/Fidelio (debut) and Curzio/The Marriage of Figaro. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, Espinal continued his studies at Yale University, where he recently received a Master of Musical Arts degree.

Laureano Quant – Baritone

A native of Barranquilla, Colombia, Laureano Quant holds a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a Master of Musical Arts degree from Yale University. Highlights of his repertoire include Belcore, The Elixir of Love, Guglielmo, Così fan tutte, Figaro, Saverio Mercadante’s I due Figaro, Maguire, Tobias Picker’s Emmeline, Zurga, The Pearl Fishers, Vittorio and The Boarder, Nino Rota’s I due timidi, Demetrius, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the Captain and … read more