University of Notre Dame Men's Glee Club
Daniel Stowe, conductor
2025 Pacific Northwest Spring Tour

We welcome the iconic University of Notre Dame Men's Glee Club, under the direction of Daniel Stowe, to St. James Cathedral as part of their spring tour. You won't want to miss hearing their signature sound in a program of sacred choral music: contemporary and Renaissance motets, including Biebl's Ave Maria and Poulenc's rarely-heard Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue, along with hymns and African-American spirituals. Click here to view a PDF of the complete program.

The Notre Dame Glee Club is approaching its 110th anniversary as a campus ensemble. The Club's membership is drawn from all courses of study at the university; each year they present a wide-ranging repertory in several formal concerts on campus and on tour, as well as in dozens of informal performances at University events. Their concert repertory customarily includes classical a cappella music for men's chorus as well as folk songs, African-American spirituals, popular arrangements in a wide variety of styles, barbershop harmony, and songs of Notre Dame.

The Club tours domestically twice each year, and internationally once every other year. Over the last quarter-century they have performed in over 40 U.S. states and in 20 countries in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. During the 2024-25 academic year they will tour in Canada and on the West Coast, and will return to Spain in May 2025 for concerts in many of the nation's greatest cathedrals.

Among several Glee Club recordings are Beautiful Rain (2007), On the Rocky Road to Dublin (2012), and Loyal Sons (2016). Their most recent collection is Christmas at Notre Dame (2017), with the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra. In December 2023 the Glee Club and Symphony Orchestra toured with their holiday program, with performances at distinctive venues including Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh and Verizon Hall in Philadelphia, raising over $25,000 for local food banks.

Director Daniel Stowe has been a member of the University of Notre Dame faculty since 1993. In addition to directing the Glee Club, he is also conductor of the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra and the Notre Dame Collegium Musicum, and teaches music history, choral literature, and conducting.