Summer Singers of Kansas City
Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral
Registration for the 25th Summer Singers of Kansas City is open now.
Ernest Bloch’s
Avodath Hakodesh (Sacred Service)
in Helzberg Hall Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Dr. Geoffrey Wilcken, Organ and Josh Markley, Baritone
No audition is required for membership. Participation is open to all adults and mature youth.
William O. Baker, DMA, Music Director & Conductor
Christine Freeman, MME, Associate Music Director
Jamea J. Sale, PhD, Executive Associate Music Director
Sean Sweeden, DMA, Composer in Residence
The 100-voice Summer Singers of Kansas City & Symphony Orchestra that begins weekly rehearsals in June of each year in preparation for a performance of a major choral-orchestral masterwork at the end of August. Annual performances are given in collaboration with some of the region’s finest professional soloists and with members of the Kansas City Symphony.
Participants have included professional musicians as well as singers participating in a choral ensemble for the very first time in their lives. Choristers come from as far as Hiawatha, Topeka, Garden City and Emporia to be a part of the Summer Singers experience.
Created in 1999, the Summer Singers of Kansas City is now enjoying its 24th season. Recent summer concerts have featured ambitious works including Haydn: The Creation, Mass in Time of War and Lord Nelson Mass, Handel: Coronation Anthems, Israel in Egypt, Judas Maccabaeus and Dettingen Te Deum, Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem and Liebeslieder Waltzes, Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Mass in C and Choral Fantasy, Mendelssohn: Elijah, Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem, and Mozart: Requiem, Solemn Vespers and Great Mass in C minor.
2023 Haydn: THE CREATION on YouTube
2022 Mendelssohn: ELIJAH on YouTube
2019 Handel: ISRAEL IN EGYPT on YouTube
2018 Carl Orff: CARMINA BURANA on YouTube
2017 Handel: JUDAS MACCABAEUS on YouTube
2016 Vaughan Williams: DONA NOBIS PACEM on YouTube
2015 Mozart: REQUIEM on YouTube
CONCERTY PROGRAM 2023 HAYDN - THE CREATION
CONCERT PROGRAM 2022 MENDELSSOHN - ELIJAH
CONCERT PROGRAM 2021 MOZART AND MORE
CONCERT PROGRAM 2018 ORFF - CARMINA BURANA
CONCERT PROGRAM 2019 HANDEL - ISRAEL IN EGYPT
