CONCORA Summer Festival
Dear Summer Festival Participants,
You will no doubt have figured out by now that, with the coronavirus situation still very much in flux and the coming months shrouded in mystery, we cannot at this point plan on going ahead with the 2020 CONCORA Summer Festival. This is particularly sad because we were so excited about the new residential format which would have been launched this summer.
But we WILL be planning on launching the new festival in summer 2021, aiming for the July 28-31, though those dates are not set in stone. I realize that "Next Year in New Britain" doesn't have the same ring as "Next Year in Jerusalem", but I really do look forward to having everyone be together again. If there's anything that we have all learned from the current situation, it is the power of making music together, something that I know we all dearly miss.
In the meantime, please check our website- www.concora.org. In addition to "Reach", a wonderful virtual choir project that CONCORA did at the start of the quarantine, we have a 20 minute video of a B Minor Mass rehearsal from earlier this spring! And beginning next week, we will post a new mp3 of recordings from the past five years every few days. If you watch carefully, you might find a recording from the Summer Festival!
Stay safe... can't wait until we're together again.
Chris Shepard
You will no doubt have figured out by now that, with the coronavirus situation still very much in flux and the coming months shrouded in mystery, we cannot at this point plan on going ahead with the 2020 CONCORA Summer Festival. This is particularly sad because we were so excited about the new residential format which would have been launched this summer.
But we WILL be planning on launching the new festival in summer 2021, aiming for the July 28-31, though those dates are not set in stone. I realize that "Next Year in New Britain" doesn't have the same ring as "Next Year in Jerusalem", but I really do look forward to having everyone be together again. If there's anything that we have all learned from the current situation, it is the power of making music together, something that I know we all dearly miss.
In the meantime, please check our website- www.concora.org. In addition to "Reach", a wonderful virtual choir project that CONCORA did at the start of the quarantine, we have a 20 minute video of a B Minor Mass rehearsal from earlier this spring! And beginning next week, we will post a new mp3 of recordings from the past five years every few days. If you watch carefully, you might find a recording from the Summer Festival!
Stay safe... can't wait until we're together again.
Chris Shepard
Comments from past Festival Participants"One of the highlights of my summer. Working with Chris is amazing. And this year, I met several women who all want to stay in touch between now and next year's festival."
"Chris's direction makes the music come to life." "It was a great experience, Chris offers so many helpful suggestions for singers and the music selections are great." "Tremendous! I learned so much and the long rehearsals just flew by!" "This was an exceptional experience in so many ways. I feel honored to have been a participant." |
The 2019 Summer Festival Chorus |
A History of the CONCORA
Summer Choral Festival
2019 - Music For Choir and 4-Hand Piano
2018 - Wonderful Town! A Bernstein Centenary
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
2018 - Wonderful Town! A Bernstein Centenary
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