Mount Desert Summer Chorale

Year: 
2025
Date(s): 
June 18–August 2, 2025
Location: 
Bar Harbor, Maine

We are a non-auditioned community chorus made up of experienced singers from Mount Desert Island and the surrounding communities, as well as those from away. Each year, some 70 - 80 singers plan their summers around the choir's schedule. We take six weeks to learn a full-length program, so every rehearsal counts.  They're demanding and exacting, but also upbeat and exciting. What better way to form new friendships and renew old ones than by singing beautiful music together? We also plan one social event each year for our singers and their families to get together and "catch up".

Singers pay annual dues, which subsidize the rental of music and access to study materials. This year we are introducing a new program where annual dues are waived for sustaining members who pledge $10 a month or more. There is no audition, but most singers are experienced choral musicians who sing in other choirs during the year.

On August 1 and 2, 2024, the Chorale will present Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. Admission is $20.

Rehearsals are mostly Wednesday evenings, 6:30 - 9 p.m., beginning on June 18.

Contact email: 
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