CONCORA Summer Festival
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CONCORA's Summer Festival offers adults and select high school and college singers from the community an opportunity to join with CONCORA in rehearsing and performing great choral works. Festival repertoire has included great choral masterworks such as choral arrangements by Robert Shaw and Alice Parker, the Requiems of Brahms, Fauré, and Duruflé; Part II of Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in collaboration with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Orff’s Carmina Burana, selections from Bach’s cantatas, Schubert’s Mass in G, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, and much more.
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CONCORA’s 2017 Summer Festival concert, “Exploring the Great Choral Masterworks,” took place on August 5, 2017, at Bethany Covenant Church in Berlin, CT. The performance was wonderful; 105 singers delivered to a capacity audience a moving concert of music by Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Rossini, and Fauré.
Comments from participants in the 2017 Summer Festival:
“I was one of the newbies this year. It was incredible to join so many talented singers to rehearse and perform this outstanding repertoire.”
“Thank you CONCORA for a great week of music and friendship!”
"What a great week! It was my first time participating and it was a wonderful experience!"
"Chris Shepard makes this musical experience both profound and joyous - what a wonderful singing summer! So exciting to hear these 100 plus voices approaching performance level for Saturday's magnificent concert!”
And comments from a few of the audience that filled Bethany Covenant Church to hear this program on August 5:
"It was a beautiful concert! Would gladly have listened to another hour of those gorgeous voices and the well-chosen repertoire."
"Exquisite program...I just closed my eyes in some passages to let myself soar through these passionate renditions. The soloists were spectacular, and Chris Shepard is just sublime. This is my second Concora-based experience...it is easy to fall in love with such an ensemble!”
“The Festival Chorus's renditions gave me goose bumps!”
Did you miss the concert? Or were you there and would like to get goose bumps all over again? The Festival concert was recorded; CDs of this "souvenir" recording are available for just $15. Information and an order form may be found on the Contact page at this website, or contact the CONCORA office (info shown below).
Visit CONCORA's Facebook page to see photos from the Festival rehearsals and concert.
Come sing with us! To receive earliest notice of registration for the 2018 Summer Festival, please join our mailing list. The 2018 Summer Festival will be the 20th edition; this is sure to be a special event!
Comments from participants in the 2017 Summer Festival:
“I was one of the newbies this year. It was incredible to join so many talented singers to rehearse and perform this outstanding repertoire.”
“Thank you CONCORA for a great week of music and friendship!”
"What a great week! It was my first time participating and it was a wonderful experience!"
"Chris Shepard makes this musical experience both profound and joyous - what a wonderful singing summer! So exciting to hear these 100 plus voices approaching performance level for Saturday's magnificent concert!”
And comments from a few of the audience that filled Bethany Covenant Church to hear this program on August 5:
"It was a beautiful concert! Would gladly have listened to another hour of those gorgeous voices and the well-chosen repertoire."
"Exquisite program...I just closed my eyes in some passages to let myself soar through these passionate renditions. The soloists were spectacular, and Chris Shepard is just sublime. This is my second Concora-based experience...it is easy to fall in love with such an ensemble!”
“The Festival Chorus's renditions gave me goose bumps!”
Did you miss the concert? Or were you there and would like to get goose bumps all over again? The Festival concert was recorded; CDs of this "souvenir" recording are available for just $15. Information and an order form may be found on the Contact page at this website, or contact the CONCORA office (info shown below).
Visit CONCORA's Facebook page to see photos from the Festival rehearsals and concert.
Come sing with us! To receive earliest notice of registration for the 2018 Summer Festival, please join our mailing list. The 2018 Summer Festival will be the 20th edition; this is sure to be a special event!
A History of the CONCORA Summer Choral Festival
2017 Exploring the Great Choral Masterworks
2016 A Serenade to Music: Choral Settings of Shakespeare
2015 Come, Let us Sing with Melody! (with Guest Conductor Joseph D’Eugenio)
2014 Musical Pairs: Music of Europe and America (with Guest Conductor Dr. Pamela J. Perry)
2013 Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
2012 Music of Celebration and Solace
2011 Choral Classics Plus!
2010 Choral Songs of Life and Love
2009 Maurice Duruflé: Requiem
2008 The Contemporary Choral Song
2007 Great Music for Strings and Choir
2006 Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
2005 Music for a Sacred Space
2004 Great Music for Double Choir
2003 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony IX, with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra
2002 George Frideric Handel: Messiah, Part II
2001 Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
2000 Music of America, a program of choral music by American composers
1999 A Tribute to Robert Shaw, honoring the legendary maestro and his choral legacy
2016 A Serenade to Music: Choral Settings of Shakespeare
2015 Come, Let us Sing with Melody! (with Guest Conductor Joseph D’Eugenio)
2014 Musical Pairs: Music of Europe and America (with Guest Conductor Dr. Pamela J. Perry)
2013 Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
2012 Music of Celebration and Solace
2011 Choral Classics Plus!
2010 Choral Songs of Life and Love
2009 Maurice Duruflé: Requiem
2008 The Contemporary Choral Song
2007 Great Music for Strings and Choir
2006 Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
2005 Music for a Sacred Space
2004 Great Music for Double Choir
2003 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony IX, with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra
2002 George Frideric Handel: Messiah, Part II
2001 Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
2000 Music of America, a program of choral music by American composers
1999 A Tribute to Robert Shaw, honoring the legendary maestro and his choral legacy
