The SoCAL Chorale
The SoCAL Chorale directed by Marya Basaraba is an ensemble of dynamic, enthusiastic choristers supported by some of the top professional Ringers in Los Angeles. Singers come from all over LA and Orange County and beyond
to share in fabulous concerts with a wide variety of orchestral organizations including the Culver City Symphony Orchestra and Marina del Rey Summer Symphony.
Recent collaborations with the Marina del Rey Summer Symphony include a spectacular August 2024 concert featuring epic choral soundtracks from classic, favorite movies, which helped the Marina del Rey Summer Concert Series to retain the coveted spot as the #1 Best Live Music Event in The Argonaut’s Best of the Westside 2024 reader poll.
The SoCAL Chorale also collaborated with the Marina del Rey Summer Symphony for two concerts in Burton Chace Park in the 2023 summer season, including a unique program of Video Game Music.
to share in fabulous concerts with a wide variety of orchestral organizations including the Culver City Symphony Orchestra and Marina del Rey Summer Symphony.
Recent collaborations with the Marina del Rey Summer Symphony include a spectacular August 2024 concert featuring epic choral soundtracks from classic, favorite movies, which helped the Marina del Rey Summer Concert Series to retain the coveted spot as the #1 Best Live Music Event in The Argonaut’s Best of the Westside 2024 reader poll.
The SoCAL Chorale also collaborated with the Marina del Rey Summer Symphony for two concerts in Burton Chace Park in the 2023 summer season, including a unique program of Video Game Music.
Marya Basaraba, Director
Ms Basaraba was the Resident Chorus Maestra and Vocal Consultant for the California Philharmonic with Maestro Victor Vener at the LA Arboretum, Santa Anita Race Track, Pasadena Civic Auditorium and Walt Disney Concert Hall for twelve seasons delivering huge choruses of up to 220 singers for multiple Beethoven Ninth Symphony performances and widely inventive programs ranging from Puccini to Lloyd Webber and Rodgers and Hammerstein to Vaughn Williams.
She has held the same position for 10 seasons with the Golden State Pops Orchestra under the direction of Conductor Steven Allen Fox at the historic Warner Grand Theater, Royce Hall and Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center specializing in the film and video genre with concert participation by some of the most acclaimed contemporary film composers conducting the elite GSPO Chorale in their own works.
In 2022 she delivered a brilliant chorus to the inaugural performance of the LA Film Orchestra with Maestro Fox and producer Robert Townson in a spectacular Tribute to the film composer Basil Poledouris at Disney Hall.
Marya is also an accomplished opera, oratorio and symphonic soloist and one of her most important mentors was conductor Frank Paul Fetta, music director of multiple orchestras in the Southland, including the Culver City and Marina del Rey Symphonies. She sang dozens of concerts with him and eventually became his Resident Chorus Maestra at the Redlands Bowl Festival Opera for staged productions of Tosca, La Traviata, Magic Flute, The Mikado and Madama Butterfly. Her last collaboration with Maestro Fetta was just before the Pandemic in a unique production of Puccini's best-loved opera, 'La Boheme', in Burton Chace Park with the Marina del Rey Summer Symphony.
She has held the same position for 10 seasons with the Golden State Pops Orchestra under the direction of Conductor Steven Allen Fox at the historic Warner Grand Theater, Royce Hall and Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center specializing in the film and video genre with concert participation by some of the most acclaimed contemporary film composers conducting the elite GSPO Chorale in their own works.
In 2022 she delivered a brilliant chorus to the inaugural performance of the LA Film Orchestra with Maestro Fox and producer Robert Townson in a spectacular Tribute to the film composer Basil Poledouris at Disney Hall.
Marya is also an accomplished opera, oratorio and symphonic soloist and one of her most important mentors was conductor Frank Paul Fetta, music director of multiple orchestras in the Southland, including the Culver City and Marina del Rey Symphonies. She sang dozens of concerts with him and eventually became his Resident Chorus Maestra at the Redlands Bowl Festival Opera for staged productions of Tosca, La Traviata, Magic Flute, The Mikado and Madama Butterfly. Her last collaboration with Maestro Fetta was just before the Pandemic in a unique production of Puccini's best-loved opera, 'La Boheme', in Burton Chace Park with the Marina del Rey Summer Symphony.