Support Tonality Today
Help us keep the momentum going by making a donation today!
Latest Stories
Check Out Our Updates!
2024-25 Season: America Will Be
Tickets Available for the 2024-25 Season
No items found.

Follow Us

Sign up for Updates

Who We Are

Tonality is a vocal ensemble whose mission is to deliver authentic stories
through voice and body to incite change, understanding, and dialogue.

Tonality choir in rehearsal at studio

Mission

Tonality sings to inspire, innovate, and spark social change through the power of diversity.

Learn More
Alexander Lloyd Blake conducting

Leaders

Founder and Artistic Director Alexander Lloyd Blake created Tonality with the intention of connecting people with our shared humanity through song.

Our Team
Tonality choir singing with folders

Vocalists

Tonality features vocalists from the Greater Los Angeles Area who represent diverse cultures, ethnicities, and experiences.

Meet Us

Our Music

See More

Featured Stories

A Brief Article Celebrating a GRAMMY® Nomination in the category of Best Arrangement, Instrumental, or A Capella
News
Celebrating a GRAMMY® Nomination: Dr. Alexander Lloyd Blake and Tonality Shine

A Brief Article Celebrating a GRAMMY® Nomination in the category of Best Arrangement, Instrumental, or A Capella

Read More
From dates and diversity to song choice and more, this is your guide to auditioning for Tonality in December 2024.
News
Tonality Announces Auditions for 2025-2026 Season: Everything You Need to Know

From dates and diversity to song choice and more, this is your guide to auditioning for Tonality in December 2024.

Read More
Tonality celebrates its first-ever GRAMMY award with composer Carla Patullo on her album 'So She Howls.' Discover the journey behind the Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album of 2024.
News
Tonality Celebrates First GRAMMY® Win with Carla Patullo, Scorchio Quartet for 'So She Howls' - Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album

Tonality celebrates its first-ever GRAMMY award with composer Carla Patullo on her album 'So She Howls.' Discover the journey behind the Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album of 2024.

Read More
See All

Support Tonality Today.

Tonality sings human stories that raise awareness, encourage empathy, and inspire change. Too many of our community’s stories have been muted. With your support, Tonality can continue the important work of #SingingStories to incite conversations and action and catalyze a future where every voice is heard. Help us keep the momentum going by making a donation today!

Support Us

Concerts

America Will Be Tour: Duke University, NC
Saturday, January 18, 2025
|
7:30 pm
ET
America Will Be Tour: Duke University, NC

America Will Be is a renewed vision for an inclusive America. The repertoire conjures a patriotic future for the United States for all of us. The program employs a "choral spectrum" - traditional choral sounds with contemporary styles reflecting the diversity of voices and the inspiring storytelling that Tonality skillfully weaves. As an ideal America embraces the full diversity of humanity, America Will Be asks questions about the justice system, immigration, climate change, Black Lives Matter, mental health, and LGBTQ+ equity while honoring the promise of a great America.

TicketsInformation
America Will Be Tour: Wake Forest University, NC
Monday, January 20, 2025
|
7:30 pm
ET
America Will Be Tour: Wake Forest University, NC

America Will Be is a renewed vision for an inclusive America. The repertoire conjures a patriotic future for the United States for all of us. The program employs a "choral spectrum" - traditional choral sounds with contemporary styles reflecting the diversity of voices and the inspiring storytelling that Tonality skillfully weaves. As an ideal America embraces the full diversity of humanity, America Will Be asks questions about the justice system, immigration, climate change, Black Lives Matter, mental health, and LGBTQ+ equity while honoring the promise of a great America.

TicketsInformation
The Wallis | At War With Ourselves - 400 Years of You
Saturday, February 15, 2025
|
7:30 pm
PT
The Wallis | At War With Ourselves - 400 Years of You

Music @ The Wallis is generously made possible by Terri and Jerry Kohl At War With Ourselves – 400 Years of You features a text by National Book Award-winning poet Nikky Finney inspired by her 2013 poem “The Battle of and for the Black Face Boy.” The music was composed by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Abels, composer for the Jordan Peele films Us and Get Out. This powerful new work for string quartet, narrator, and chorus explores race relations, social justice, and civil rights in 21st century America. KRONOS QUARTET TONALITY MUSIC BY Michael Abels TEXT & NARRATION BY Nikky Finney CONDUCTED BY Alexander Lloyd Blake

TicketsInformation
The Wallis | Put Your Guns Down
Saturday, May 24, 2025
|
7:30 pm
PT
The Wallis | Put Your Guns Down

Music @ The Wallis is generously made possible by Terri and Jerry Kohl Making their Wallis debut, GRAMMY-award winning vocal choir Tonality combines melodic harmonies to present concerts on themes of social justice in hopes to catalyze empathy and community activism. Put Your Guns Down discusses issues related to gun violence in the United States. Some of the selections will discuss mass shootings, police brutality, the effects on victims, school shootings, and suicide prevention. The concert also focuses on an active sense of peace as we come together to find solutions toward the epidemic of gun violence in this country. This evening’s performance will feature the world premiere of Alexander Lloyd Blake’s Running From, Running To: A Musical Reflection on Ahmaud Arbery.

TicketsInformation

Season Grantors

California Arts Council
Los Angeles County Arts & Culture
Michael and Irene Ross Endowment of the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles
City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
Los Angeles Recovery Fund Grant
Tejemos Foundation
Example Logo

Experience Concerts

Experience Music Videos

See More

Sign up for updates.

Subscribe to the Tonality newsletter and receive news about concerts, stories, and actions.

Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.