The Bilbao Choral Society started its career in the summer of 1886. Since then, with no interruption whatsoever, it has been carrying out its task in favour of music as a whole and, more particularly, of choir music. The Society’s history involves a succession of stages of very different characteristics.

Competitions During the first decades, The Choral Society gave a firm option to taking part in numerous contests and competitions, so popular during the last years of the XIX and the first of the XX. The achie...   Theatre The coincidence in time of the Society"s silver wedding and the hiring of the young Jesús Guridi as the leader of the choir gave birth to a new stage, of a very different character. The Choral will...

Symphonic Once the fight was over, as a consequence of the resulting political circumstances, the society was not able to continue working on the so-called Basque Lyrical Theatre. Nevertheless, its activity ...   Present This decline was overcome during the early 80"s. The arrival of a new president, Cecilio Gerrikabeitia, and a new chorus master, Gorka Sierra, meant a great stimulus for this society which then lan...