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.