Summit Chorale's 2024-2025 Season!

The Summit Chorale will continue to offer an exciting and robust season and we hope you will be a part of it!

We continue our tradition of commemorating September 11 with our annual Memorial Sing of Mozart's iconic Requiem on September 8, 2025, at Calvary Episcopal Church in Summit. Please bring your scores and sing with us to remember those we lost and those who lost loved ones on that day.

Our artistic director and conductor, Thomas Juneau, is celebrating his 15th year as Music Director of Summit Chorale! A very important anniversary that coincides with this is the 80th Anniversary of the end of conflict in Europe during WWII. Therefore, the artistic goals of Summit Chorale's 2024-25 Season will focus greatly on commemorating those events that defined history and continue to define us today.

Our Fall concert, Creative Resistance and Jazz, will feature music of composers and singers living in France during WWII, focusing on Francis Poulenc's Un soir de neige, a powerful choral work about French Resistance fighters during WWII with words by Paul Elouard. We will also be singing hits by Edith Piaf and the great heroine of WWII, Josephine Baker. This will tie into a focus on Jazz, one of the great controversial musical forms during the period to which we will perform Will Todd's exuberant Mass in Blue.

Our December concert will take place two days before the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. For this, we will sing the popular Christmas songs of the time that people would have heard on the radio. We will reprise Un Soir de Neige, and perform Ralph Vaughan Williams' powerful Dona Nobis Pacem from 1936, a beautiful anthem for peace composed in a hope that a second World War could be avoided.

On the lighter side, we will be bringing some popular music to our community, including our cABBAret (featuring the music of ABBA!) and a performance of Johann Strauss Jr.s Die Fledermaus. Buy your tickets early for these events!

Our powerful Spring concert will feature Singet dem Herrn, a setting of Psalm 150 by German composer Hugo Distler, who, due to his depression about being forced into the National Party during WWII, committed suicide in 1942. We will also sing two songs of the Holocaust, "Ani Ma'amin" and "I Believe in the Sun" by New Jersey composer Mark Miller. This concert will culminate with Johannes Brahms' universal Ein Deutsches Requiem. This work will memorialize all who were lost after the end of hostilities in the European theater during WWII.

Thank you for your support and love of Summit Chorale. We hope you will join us and support great people making great music in our area!

The Summit Chorale in collaboration with Concord Singers recently went on tour in Germany and the Czech Republic in July 2024. The choirs performed J.S. Bach’s motet “Jesu, Meine Freude”, Mendelson, Clara Schumann, Mozart, and Thomas Juneau's “Et in Terra Pax”. Performance locations included Saint-Anne's Church in Berlin-Dahlem, the Thomaskirche in Leipzig (where J.S. Bach was the cantor), the Nikolaikirche in Wettin, Church of St Anna in Karlovy Vary-Sedlec and the Church of the Holy Savior in Prague.

You can visit our YouTube channel or our website www.summitchorale.org to check out some of our past performances and some of our performances from our recent Tour.