Join Peninsula Cantare for an emotional and moving season finale! The centerpiece work will be Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard, with video projections, staging, and chamber orchestra. This uplifting piece offers listeners a compassionate and evocative musical journey through Matt’s story. The chorus and soloists will draw you into a musical world of immense beauty, helping to share the light and love this “ordinary boy” brought to all he met. You won’t want to miss this concert!

  • 16 May 2026

  • 7:30 PM

  • First Congregational Church: 1985 Louis Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303

Join Peninsula Cantare for an emotional and moving season finale! The centerpiece work will be Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard, with video projections, staging, and chamber orchestra. This uplifting piece offers listeners a compassionate and evocative musical journey through Matt’s story. The chorus and soloists will draw you into a musical world of immense beauty, helping to share the light and love this “ordinary boy” brought to all he met. You won’t want to miss this concert!

Peninsula Cantare is proudly partnering with the Matthew Shepard Foundation for this concert. A portion of your ticket purchase will go directly to the foundation in service of their mission, “erasing hate since 1998.”

Click here to learn more about the Matthew Shepard Foundation!