Concert on July 20

Summer Choral Festival

Join us for the 2025

Featuring a performance of Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace with full orchestra

Quintessence presents our 13th Annual Summer Choral Festival. This is a week-long event that includes workshops and social events that are open to the public. The festival grand finale is a concert on July 20, featuring the Quintessence Summer Choral Festival Chorus & Orchestra performing Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace, conducted by Matthew Greer.

Includes a performance from our 2025 Choral Scholars, featuring music of Hanna Havrylets, Margrit Kits, Jake Runestad, Reginal Wright, Ysaÿe Barnwell, Jocelyn Hagen, Dessa, Karen Marrolli, Eliza Gilkyson, and Melanie DeMore.

CONCERT DETAILS

DATE: Sunday, July 20

TIME: 3:00pm (Pre-concert Talk at 2:00pm with Conductor Matthew Greer and Classical 95.5 KHFM’s Alexis Corbin)

LOCATION: V. Sue Cleveland High School Performance Space, 4800 Cleveland Heights Rd, Rio Rancho

TICKETS: $10 Youth | $20 Adults

SUNDAY, JULY 13
7:00 pm - Festival MusiQale at Kelly Jo Designs by Wine. Click here for more information.


MONDAY, JULY 14
5:15pm - Workshop: Vocal Health & Longevity with Olga Perez Flora


TUESDAY, JULY 15

5:15pm - Workshop: Drum Fun with Sean Umstead and Judy Castro-Umstead

7:00pm - Beer Choir at Canteen Brewhouse. Click here for more information.


WEDNESDAY, JULY 16

5:15pm - Workshop: Weaving the Social Fabric: A guided small group discussion with Barbara Regan

5:15pm - Workshop: Breath, Strength, and Flow with Shelly Ley

SUNDAY, JULY 20

2:00pm - Pre-concert Talk with Conductor Matthew Greer and Classical 95.5 KHFM’s Alexis Corbin

3:00pm - 2025 Summer Choral Festival Concert

Workshop & Event Schedule

Featured
2025 Festival MusiQale
Jul 13
2025 Festival MusiQale

Kick off the 2025 Summer Choral Festival with Festival MusiQale, our opening social event blending creativity, connection, and music. Enjoy an evening filled with live music from a small ensemble, local wine, and a guided painting experience led by Quintessence’s own Lore Hazard—featuring one of their original works.

Admission: $38

Beer Choir
Jul 15
Beer Choir

Science has proved that the more beer you drink, the better you sing! Join Quintessence: A Community of Singers as we lead the crowd in singing pop songs, show tunes, and soulful melodies from our Beer Choir Hymnal. No experience is necessary, and all ages are welcome!

Summer Choral Festival Concert
Jul 20
Summer Choral Festival Concert

Join us for the 2025 Summer Choral Festival Concert, featuring the Quintessence Summer Choral Festival Chorus and Orchestra in a powerful performance of The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace by Karl Jenkins, conducted by Matthew Greer.

The concert will also include a performance by the 2025 Festival Scholars Chorus, showcasing works by Karen Marrolli, Jake Runestad, Craig Hella Johnson, Ysaÿe Barnwell, Reginal Wright, Jocelyn Hagen, Dessa, and more.

Festival Events

Quintessence Summer Choral Festival

Since 2013, Quintessence has produced a weeklong Summer Choral Festival for adult and school-aged singers who want to experience the thrill of performing a major choral-orchestral work together. Our 2025 Summer Choral Festival will be held July 12 - July 20, 2025.

CHORAL SCHOLARS PROGRAM
Our annual Summer Choral Festival provides an opportunity for serious singers of all ages to spend a joyful and intense week preparing a major choral work for performance with professional orchestra.

Registrants also can take advantage of private lessons, workshops and other performances.

Past Summer Festival Performances

2024 - Christopher Tin: The Lost Birds: An Extinction Elegy

2023 - Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem

2022 - Jocelyn Hagen: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

2021 - Taylor Davis: Magnificat; Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria; Robert Ray: Gospel Mass

2019 - Ludwig van Beethoven: Choral Fantasy; Johannes Brahms: Schicksalslied

2018 - Robert Cohen: Alzheimer's Stories

2017 - Ludwig van Beethoven: Mass in C

2016 - J.S. Bach: Magnificat; Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria

2015 - Alice Parker: Melodious Accord; Randall Thompson: Frostiana

2014 - Franz Josef Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass

2013 - Gabriel Fauré: Requiem