Quintessence Summer Choral Festival
Since 2013, our annual Summer Choral Festival has provided 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.
CHORAL SCHOLARS PROGRAM
Our Choral Scholars are an elite, auditioned group of 32 high school and college singers, who work alongside professional singers from the VOCES8 US Scholars Program.
They perform their own program in addition to performing in the year’s major work.
Past Summer Festival Performances
2026 - Taylor Scott Davis: Requiem (U. S. premiere)
2025 - Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace
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