The Rutgers University Kirkpatrick Choir is the most advanced mixed choir at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick. Composed of student musicians from the Mason Gross School of the Arts as well as other areas of the University, the choir regularly presents several concerts each semester around the campus. Also, the choir also performs off-campus regularly, in such famous performance venues as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York.

Under the baton of Dr. Patrick Gardner, Director of Choral Activities at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, the choir has been renowned for their high level performance in both classical and contemporary works. Most recently, the choir has joined with world-renowned conductor Valery Gergiev and his Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater, in performances of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Second and Third Symphonies at Lincoln Center in New York City. This was part of a larger project by Gergiev to perform all thirteen of Shostakovich’s symphonies, to honor what would have been his 100th birthday. In October, the men of the Choir joined Gergiev, the Kirov Orchestra, the Rutgers Glee Club, and the men of Manhattan’s Riverside Choral Society in a performance of Shostakovich’s Thirteenth Symphony, the last of the series by Gergiev. In addition, the women of the Choir joined with the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra to perform Lou Harrison’s Peace Piece One: The Invocation for the Health of All Beings before 36,000 people in Rutgers Stadium, before a speech by his Holiness, the Dalai Lama. Other recent performances include Franz Joseph Haydn’s The Creation and Francis Poulenc’s Gloria, both with the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra, in New York City.

The choir toured the mid-Atlantic region in March of 2007, with stops in Cherry Hill, NJ; Baltimore, MD; and Washington D.C.