Thomas Circle Singers is an independent chamber chorus located in Washington DC. It donates concert ticket proceeds to nonprofit organizations

Non-profit organization

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. TCS has raised $100,000 for various Washington DC-based charitable causes over the last six years.

The group was founded in 1976 with the support of Luther Place Memorial Church

Luther Place Memorial Church

Luther Place Memorial Church was built in 1873 as a memorial to peace and reconciliation following the American Civil War. Its original name was Memorial Evangelical Lutheran Church and it was designed by architects Judson York, J.C. Harkness, and Henry Davis. It is located in Thomas Circle in...

, and is currently located at National City Christian Church

National City Christian Church

National City Christian Church, located on Thomas Circle in Washington, D.C., is the national cathedral for the Christian Church , often abbreviated as the "Disciples of Christ" or "Christian Church"...

 on Thomas Circle in Washington DC. TCS was named Washingtonian of the Year 2000 by Washingtonian Magazine

Washingtonian (magazine)

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http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/6201.html and artistic director James Kreger was honored with WETA-FM

WETA (FM)

WETA is a non-commercial, public radio station in Washington, DC broadcasting a classical music radio format on 90.9 FM. Its studios are located in...

’s Hometown Hero award.http://www.mencanstoprape.org/calendar2702/calendar_show.htm?doc_id=124145

Recent concert seasons have included Gerald Finzi

Gerald Finzi

Gerald Raphael Finzi was a British composer. Finzi is best known as a song-writer, but also wrote in other genres...

’s In terra pax, Irving Fine

Irving Fine

Irving Gifford Fine was an American composer. Fine's work assimilated neo-classical, romantic and, later, serial elements...

’s “The Choral New Yorker,” Maurice Duruflé

Maurice Duruflé

Maurice Duruflé was a French composer, organist, and pedagogue.Duruflé was born in Louviers, Eure. In 1912, he became chorister at the Rouen Cathedral Choir School, where he studied piano and organ with Jules Haelling...

’s Requiem, the North American premiere of Bob Chilcott

Bob Chilcott

Robert "Bob" Chilcott is a British choral composer, conductor, and singer, based in Oxford, England.Born in Plymouth, Chilcott sang in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, both as a boy and as a university student. He performed the Pie Jesu of Fauré's Requiem on the 1967 recording. In 1985 he...

’s “Canticles of Light,” and the world premiere of Daniel Gawthrop’s “The Bond of Charity,” commissioned by TCS to celebrate its 25th anniversary season. The 2005-2006 concert season included the world premiere of Robert Convery’s “Glory to the Child,” commissioned by TCS to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary season. The 2007-2008 season featured the world premiere of a choral work commissioned by TCS, “A Heart in Hiding (The Passionate Love Poems of Emily Dickinson) ” by Gwyneth Walker. In 2011, TCS celebrated its 35th anniversary by premiering the commissioned work "August Moonrise" by Blake Henson.

The beneficiary for TCS's 2008-2009 season is Men Can Stop Rape, Inc.