July 20-28

Festival rehearsals:

Saturday, July 20, 2pm-5pm

Sunday, July 21, 2pm-5pm

Monday, July 22, 6:30pm-9:30pm

Wednesday, July 24, 6:30pm-9:30pm

Friday, July 26, 6:30pm-9:30pm

Saturday, July 27, 2pm-5pm (mandatory orchestral rehearsal)

Performance: Sunday, July 28, 1:30pm call, 3pm concert

All rehearsals at St. John’s United Methodist Church, 2626 Arizona Street NE in Albuquerque.

Join us as we present the New Mexico premiere of Christopher Tin’s majestic and moving The Lost Birds: An Extinction Elegy. Add your voice to our festival chorus as we perform this extraordinary work with professional orchestra, conducted by Quintessence Artistic Director Matthew Greer.

This will be an unforgettable experience. Registration opens April 15!

Registration fee $225

through May 1.

($250 after May 1.)

Registration includes score, t-shirt, performance recording, access to all festival workshops and activities, and one private voice lesson from festival faculty.

Full-time students: $100 registration fee.

Experienced high school and college age singers are strongly encouraged to apply to be a choral scholar. ($15 application fee, $60 registration if accepted.) 

Scholar applications accepted through May 15.

About The Lost Birds

The Lost Birds is a musical memorial to bird species driven to extinction by humankind. Sweeping and elegiac, it's a haunting tribute to those soaring flocks that once filled our skies, but whose songs have since been silenced. It's a celebration of their feathered beauty: their symbolism as messengers of hope, peace, and renewal. But it's also a warning about our own tenuous existence on the planet: that the fate that befell these once soaring flocks foreshadows our own extinction.

The Lost Birds received its premiere in February 2023 at Stanford University, performed by VOCES8 and the VOCES8 US Scholars. The recent recording by VOCES8 was nominated for a GRAMMY.

Please join us in adding your voice to the New Mexico premiere of this extraordinary work.

Composer Christopher Tin