Regional Mormon Choir to Perform

The Southern California Mormon Choir, including members from across Ventura County, will perform Saturday at the Thousand Oaks Stake Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The large, two-story center, at 1600 Erbes Road, was opened a year ago.

The 120-voice choral ensemble will be directed by Thousand Oaks resident Frank Turner, associate conductor of the choir and music professor at Santa Monica College.

More than two dozen choir members live in Simi Valley, Moorpark, Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park, Westlake Village, Agoura Hills, Camarillo, Oxnard and Ventura.

The choir has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Members also perform Handel’s “Messiah” every other year at the Los Angeles Music Center, and have traveled to Europe and throughout the United States.

Saturday’s performance of religious and popular music will begin at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $2.

“We’ll perform patriotic, folk and spiritual music, a little bit of everything,” Turner said. “It’ll really be a little bit of Americana.”