Artist's albums
A Lullaby
2023 · single
Because of Him
2023 · single
Wayfaring Stranger
2023 · single
Christmas Best
2021 · album
Christmas Day in the Morning
2020 · album
Angels Among Us
2019 · album
Press Forward, Saints
2019 · single
A Merry Little Christmas
2018 · album
Silent Night
2018 · single
Tree of Life: Sacred Music of Mack Wilberg
2018 · album
How Can I Keep from Singing?
2018 · single
O Come Little Children
2017 · album
Hallelujah!
2016 · album
Handel's Messiah
2016 · album
Handel: Messiah, Hwv 56 (highlights)
2016 · album
Keep Christmas With You
2015 · album
He Is Risen
2014 · EP
Let The Season In
2014 · album
Home for the Holidays
2013 · album
Homeward Bound
2013 · album
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Biography
The Orchestra at Temple Square, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was founded in 1999 as a companion ensemble to the world-famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The orchestra appears in weekly Tabernacle Choir television broadcasts, on Choir recordings, and in televised Christmas specials. As of 2017, it had appeared on 36 Mormon Tabernacle Choir recordings, including a 2016 reading of Handel's Messiah. At that date, the orchestra's music director was Mack Wilberg, also music director of the Tabernacle Choir, Temple Square Chorale, and Bells on Temple Square. The Orchestra at Temple Square also performs concerts of symphonic and concerto repertory unconnected with Mormon liturgical functions, an activity instituted in 2003 by former music director Igor Gruppman. The Orchestra at Temple Square had paid musicians at its founding, but it has evolved into an all-volunteer organization, with members donating their time and effort as a form of contribution to the Mormon Church. Part of the group's reason for being is to allow instrumental musicians the same opportunity to donate their talents as singers have in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. About 85 musicians participate in weekly broadcasts, but the orchestra can expand to a roster of 200 as circumstances require.