Fine Arts Division

Choral Activities

Milton Pullen, Head Director of the choral program of Pepperdine University offers a choice of three outstanding ensembles in which to participate - the Concert Choir, Collegium Musicum, and the Women's Choir.

The Concert Choir is the largest mixed performing group made up of all music majors and/or music award recipients, as well as talented singers from other disciplines throughout the Seaver Campus.

The Women's Choir is composed of female voice majors, minors, and other talented women from other disciplines. The Women's Choir performs octavo selections from a wide range of music written by the great composers from the Renaissance to the contemporary. This group sings two concerts in the fall with the Concert Choir, and in the Spring, the Women's Choir performs a concert with Collegium Musicum in the beautiful Raitt Recital Hall.

The Collegium Musicum is a smaller mixed ensemble with a concentration in early musical forms such as Renaissance madrigals and motets. This ensemble is only offered each spring semester.

Although performance is considered to be of the utmost importance the philosophy of the choral program is much deeper. Each student is urged to use ensemble participation in a three-fold manner: 1) to enhance one's development of the technical science of music and vocal production in a choral laboratorial environment, 2) to advance the science and the composer's intentions into an inspiring art form, 3) to internalize the University's mission by sharing the gift of music in a wholesome atmosphere of Christian service to others.