I love Palestrina so very much! We'd probably be considered semi-professional? Mostly volunteers, but with professional soloists. Some of the volunteers in the past have been church organists, high school music teachers, etc.. but I am not one of those, I just did church choir and then college/grad school choirs. We have several lawyers, oddly. We've had two different conductors who also served as choirmaster for a really high Anglican church downtown ("bells and smells," I'm told), so I've done some of that repertoire, too.

We've been both rehearsing and performing masked, and we have a vaccination requirement. It's not ideal, but vastly better than not singing at all, imo. Unfortunately, our big New Year's Eve concert was cancelled because of the omicron surge. If all goes well, we're going to start Bach's Easter Oratorio on April 4.