This Collegium Cantorum is a concert choir, organized and named in 1986, which performs in the greater Washington, D.C. area of the U.S.A. The Latin name (loosely translated "a company of singers") was chosen to suggest a concentration on "early music"; to us, this means music composed before 1601.

Since the choir was named, we have learned of numerous other groups with the same name in various parts of the world. We know of

• four ensembles called Collegium Cantorum in Gemany:
  • Collegium Cantorum Köln,
  • Collegium Cantorum e.V. Holzminden,
  • Collegium Cantorum Saar, and
  • Collegium Cantorum Rottweil,
• one in Switzerland (Das Orchester Collegium Cantorum),
• one in Sweden (Collegium Cantorum i Uppsala Domkyrk),
• one in Poland (Collegium Cantorum Czestochoviensis),
• one in Brazil (Collegium Cantorum: Coro Feminino),
• one in Canada (Dalhousie Collegium Cantorum), and
• one in Japan (Collegium Cantorum Yokohama).

We suspect that there are others.