2024 CONCORA SUMMER FESTIVAL
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About the CONCORA Summer Festival
CONCORA's Summer Festival offers adults and high school and college singers from the community an opportunity to join with CONCORA in rehearsing and performing great choral works. Past Festival repertoire has included a variety of great choral masterworks: arrangements by Robert Shaw and Alice Parker, the Requiems of Brahms, Fauré, and Duruflé, Part II of Handel's Messiah, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Orff's Carmina Burana, selections from Bach's cantatas, Schubert's Mass in G, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms.
Participation in the CONCORA Summer Festival is open to adult singers from the community, along with high school and college-age singers. The Summer Festival Chorus spends a week with Chris Shepard and CONCORA singers, preparing and performing great choral works.
Interested singers may sign up for CONCORA’s mailing list to receive notice about application, registration requirements and fees, etc. Qualified high school and college-age students are eligible to apply to attend the festival on full scholarship as Choral Scholars. If you are interested in participating as a Choral Scholar or know a qualified student who would appreciate this opportunity, be sure to sign up for our mailing list to receive early notice of scholarship opportunities.
Interested singers may sign up for CONCORA’s mailing list to receive notice about application, registration requirements and fees, etc. Qualified high school and college-age students are eligible to apply to attend the festival on full scholarship as Choral Scholars. If you are interested in participating as a Choral Scholar or know a qualified student who would appreciate this opportunity, be sure to sign up for our mailing list to receive early notice of scholarship opportunities.
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
2023 - The Phoenix Rises
2020 - Virtual Summer 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
2020 - Virtual Summer 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