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Poster for Virginia Glee Club Finals concert featuring an illustration of the rotunda.

"The Virginia Glee Club concludes its 154th season with our Finals Concert at the University Chapel, Friday, May 16, 2025, at 8:00 p.m. directed by conductor Frank Albinder and accompanied by Ting-Ting Yen. Join us as we present our musical accomplishments from the year and bid a fond farewell to our graduating students."

This concert is free to the University and Charlottesville community. This is an affiliated event.


The Virginia Glee Club is a tenor-bass chorus based at the University of Virginia. It performs both traditional and contemporary vocal works, typically in TTBB arrangements. Founded in 1871, the Glee Club is the University’s oldest musical organization and one of the oldest all-male collegiate vocal ensembles in the United States. It is currently conducted by Frank Albinder. The group is composed of students from throughout the University community, upholding longstanding social traditions and striving for musical excellence in performances.

The Virginia Glee Club was founded in 1871 as the Cabell House Men. In the 1893–1894 session of the University, the Glee Club was combined with other extant student musical groups to form the Glee, Banjo, and Mandolin Club, a more permanent organization, with professor of mathematics (and University Chapel organist) Harrison Randolph as the director. During this period, the group toured major Southern cities annually, playing to standing room only crowds in Richmond and traveling as far afield as Atlanta, St. Louis. and Memphis, according to contemporary accounts, donating the profits to the Athletic Association of the University of Virginia. The group continues to perform and tour the South, most recently during the Tour of the South in March 2024.