Collegium Cantorum is a concert choir, organized in 1986, specializing in "large forms for small choirs" and drawing most of its repertory from the great masterpieces of medieval and Renaissance Europe.

Our performances are open to the public without charge.

The literature we perform is quite challenging, exciting, and satisfying, and is often well "off the beaten path" even for early-music groups. The works, usually large-scale, date from between the earliest years of polyphonic notation (the mid 1100s) and the end of the 1500s. Occasionally these boundaries are overstepped, but not often. We are not averse to the secular music of the times, but our fondness for "large forms" has usually meant, in practice, that most of our literature is sacred "cathedral" music.

"Off the beaten path" does not mean "obscure for its own sake": we present works that deserve on their merits not to languish in obscurity.

Our usual practice is to present each program twice, once on a Saturday evening and again the next (i.e., Sunday) afternoon.

Performances are held in Washington-area churches whose acoustics are appropriate to medieval and Renaissance "cathedral music".