The Chorale's membership of more than 60 voices is dedicated to the promotion of the highest standards of choral performance. By serving its community through a regular season of subscription concerts, and by supporting choral music in the local schools, churches and civic organizations, the Chorale is helping to establish the City of Irving as a vital center of a wide variety of cultural experiences. The Chorale's repertoire reflects a wide spectrum of quality compositions. The members of the choir come from all professions and interests, music professionals, as well as skilled amateurs.
Membership is open by auditions held throughout the year.
Dr. Harrell C Lucky, appointed in the fall of 1997 as Artistic Director - Conductor, comes to the Chorale as an established choral music educator. After receiving his doctorate in composition from the School Music, Southwestern Baptist Seminary, Dr. Lucky did post-doctoral studies at the Academy of Music in Vienna under Gunther Theuring and Ferdinand Grossman. A specialist in large works for chorus and orchestra and a veteran of many performances with the SNU Chorale, the Eastfield College Chorus, the Preston Hollow Masterworks Chorus, and the Irving Chorale, he is known as a powerful and expressive interpreter of the choral repertoire. As a composer, he is represented by Lawson-Gould Music Co., Abingdon Press and Augsburg Press. In 1984, he was commissioned by the Texas Republican Committee to compose and conduct a major work for chorus and orchestra for the Presidential Concert, at the National Convention, Dallas, Texas.