Join the Oxy Music Department live for the 2026 Hume Fellow Concert, featuring the critically acclaimed British vocal ensemble VOCES8!
Location:
Thorne Hall
Event Date: Nov. 3, 2026
Free and open to the public. Ticket reservations available by visiting the Occidental College Music Department Eventbrite page.
The 2026 Opus Klassik winner and 2023 Grammy-nominated British vocal ensemble VOCES8 is the world’s top-streaming classical vocal group, and proud to inspire people through music and share the joy of singing. Touring globally, the group performs an extensive repertory both in its a cappella concerts and in collaborations with leading musicians, orchestras, conductors and soloists. Versatility and a celebration of diverse musical expression are central to the ensemble’s performance and education ethos which is shared both online and in person.
VOCES8 has performed at many notable venues from Wigmore Hall to Sydney Opera House. This season they perform over 130 concerts globally. Online the VOCES8 Digital Academy and the LIVE From London digital festival continue. They publish music and educational material with VOCES8 Publishing, E.C. Schirmer and Edition Peters, including The VOCES8 Method written by Paul Smith. Taylor Scott Davis is Composer-in-Residence with Jim Clements as Arranger-in-Residence. Their new album is “Shall We Gather”, a collaboration with Ringmasters, joining previous releases “TWENTY”, “Nightfall”, “A Choral Christmas”, Christopher Tin’s “The Lost Birds” (a Grammy-Award nominee), “Home” conducted by Eric Whitacre, featuring “The Sacred Veil” and “Seven Psalms” by Paul Simon.
The Hume Fellowship is shared with Theater and Music
It went active in the early 2000s and is named for the seeding benefactor, Bill Hume, who was a long-time employee of Occidental who oversaw the performing arts series that was in Thorne Hall from the time it first opened until the 1990s. (Bill left his estate to Oxy, and it's the reason there is a Hume Fellowship.) . The requirement of the Hume is that the artist(s) work with students in some capacity, in addition to giving a concert. While, in Music, this has typically taken the form of a master class, it could also be visiting a class or the like. The concert is a marquee event, taking place in Thorne Hall.
Parking Information: Click here for maps and directions to the college. Thorne Hall is building #58 on the campus map pdf. From Campus Road, enter at the Bird Road entrance. From Bird Road, turn left onto Gilman Road. Parking is located next to the theater in the first lot off of Bird Road by Booth Hall on the right. There is also a parking garage off Gilman Road. Accessible parking available on Bird Road or Thorne Road behind the theater.
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