Quintessence Summer Choral Festival 

Join Quintessence for our Tenth Annual

Summer Choral Festival! 

Click here to register!

We will prepare and perform the New Mexico premiere of Jocelyn Hagen's multimedia choral/orchestra work The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci with our professional festival orchestra, under the direction of Quintessence Artistic Director Matthew Greer

High school and college-aged singers are encouraged to audition for our Choral Scholars Chamber Chorus, which will perform a set of pieces as well as be a part of the festival chorus. 

In addition, there will be group workshops and the opportunities for individual voice lessons. We are thrilled that among our teaching artists are four young professional singers who are members of the VOCES8 Scholar program! This is happening through a partnership with The VOCES8 Foundation.

Rehearsals begin Saturday, July 23.

The complete schedule will be updated with workshops and other social events that will happen throughout the week

We look forward to rehearsing and performing with you.

SCHEDULE

Festival Chorus

Rehearsal Schedule July 23-31, 2022

Performance Day: Sunday, July 31, 2022
Call Time: 1:00 pm
Performance: 3 pm

at V. Sue Cleveland Concert Hall

QUINTESSENCE SUMMER CHORAL FESTIVAL FAQs

Any singer high school age or older.

IS THERE A LIMIT TO THE NUMBER OF SINGERS?
We have a limit of 110 singers. 

FEES
The singer fee $179 per adult participant if you register by June 1. Registration fee includes all rehearsals, performance with professional orchestra, extra workshops, one private voice less (if wanted), festival t-shirt, recording, and pdf of score. 

The registration fee increases to $199 per person on June 1, so sign up early!

Fee for all high school students and full-time college students is $79 (increasing to $99 on June 1).

Your fee may be paid by credit or by mailing us a check by July 1 in order to save your spot. We are unable to refund your registration fee, and will consider your fee a donation to Quintessence if you are unable to sing with us.

REPERTOIRE
The mass choir will perform Jocelyn Hagen's The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, and one other shorter work.

SCORES
Score will be emailed as a pdf, and participants may print on their own, or import onto a tablet. We will print scores for $10 each.

ATTENDANCE POLICY
Singers may miss no more than one of the six scheduled rehearsals.
The rehearsal on Saturday, July 30 is mandatory. 

CONCERT DRESS
Simple, dressy black. All black. Just wear black. Questions of sleeve length, type of material, style of shoe will be resolutely ignored. Just. Wear. Black.