The CBASO & the CBA Chorus in Concert at St James Cathedral

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Sat Mar 01 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm

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65 E Huron St | Chicago, IL

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The Chicago Bar Association Symphony Orchestra & CBA Chorus in concert, conducted by Jennifer Huang and Stephen Blackwelder
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The Chicago Bar Association Symphony Orchestra and the CBA Chorus in concert under the direction of CBASO Music Director Jennifer Huang and CBA Chorus Director Stephen Blackwelder. Program to be announced.

It is time to discover Chicagoland's unique orchestra and chorus of attorneys and judges!


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JENNIFER HUANG, CBASO Music Director

Jennifer Huang is a Taiwanese-American conductor currently serving as Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Northwestern Medical Orchestra. Her most recent engagements include Music Director of the Merit School of Music Chamber Orchestra, Music Director of Thompson Street Opera Co., and Associate Conductor of the Chicago City-Wide Symphony Orchestra. Before moving to Chicago in 2021, Huang worked with several ensembles in the Bay Area, serving as Resident Conductor of the UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Music Director of the Santa Rosa Symphony Aspirante Youth Orchestra, Music Director of the UCB Summer and Chamber Orchestras, and Assistant Conductor and Chorus Director of West Edge Opera.

While the majority of her work focuses on standard orchestral repertoire, Huang is also an active opera conductor and a strong advocate for new music performance, working closely with composers from around the world. An accomplished violinist, pianist, and vocalist, Huang has performed under the baton of world-class artists such as Riccardo Muti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel, and David Robertson. She holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of California Berkeley in Molecular Cell Biology and Music, as well as a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting from Northwestern Bienen School of Music.


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STEPHEN BLACKWELDER, CBA Chorus Director

Stephen Blackwelder is currently Director of the DePaul Community Chorus (since 2005), Director ofthe Chicago Bar Association Chorus (since 2017) and Music Director of North Shore Unitarian Church in Deerfield (since 2016). Previous positions include Music Director of the Waukegan Symphony Orchestra (2000-2018) and Music Director of the Hinsdale Chamber Orchestra (1983-94), plus numerous civic/educational orchestral, opera, and choral ensembles in the greater Chicago area. As a professional singer, he performed frequently under conductors Sir Georg Solti, Claudio Abbado, James Levine, Robert Shaw and Margaret Hillis while a member of the Chicago Symphony Chorus and the Aspen Chamber Choir. Over a number of decades, he served on the conducting staff of Chicago Opera Theater, Opera da Corneto, Opera Illinois, Hinsdale Opera Theater (IL) and Harford Opera Theater of Baltimore. Academic and teaching positions include East Carolina University, Northern Illinois University, Lake Forest College and (currently) DePaul University’s Community Music Division. Blackwelder holds a BM from the University of North Carolina (1978) and a MM from Northwestern University (1979). Professional study included four seasons with the Aspen Music Festival and conducting master classes with Sir Georg Solti, Max Rudolf and Erich Leinsdorf.



The Chicago Bar Association Symphony Orchestra and CBA Chorus, guest choirs and soloists perform Jamie Wind Whitmarsh's new edition of Handel's Halleliuah Chorus at Chicago's Symphony Center, June 2019, David (Volosin) Katz, CBASO founding music director, conducting.

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65 E Huron St, 65 East Huron Street, Chicago, United States

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