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.

High school and college aged singers can apply to become Choral Scholars, forming a chamber chorus and singing with young professional singers from the VOCES8 Foundation.

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

Summer Festival Events

All Summer Festival events will be listed here when they are announced. Check back for more details.