Audition for the 2017 Harvard Summer Chorus

Harvard Summer Chorus 81st Season: June 20 – July 30
Andrew Clark, Conductor and Director of Choral Activities

For details, see summer.holdenchoruses.fas.harvard.edu

Program: W.A. Mozart: Requiem, in a new completion by Michael Ostrzyga; with Michael Ostrzyga: tegruseR (2017): world première. In partnership with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP).

Performances: Friday July 28, 8 pm, Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, Mass. (free admission), and Sunday July 30, 3 pm, Peterborough Town House, Peterborough NH (as part of the Monadnock Music Festival).

Rehearsals: Tuesday and Thursday evenings 7:00–9:30 pm, starting June 20. At Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall.

This season, the Harvard Summer Chorus will perform Mozart’s Requiem like you’ve never heard it before. Upon his death in 1791, Mozart had only completed fragments and outlines of his work, and Franz Süßmayr composed the rest of the “Mozart” Requiem the following year. The Summer Chorus will journey through the mystery surrounding the work, opening the concert by performing only the fragments of the Requiem that Mozart himself composed, followed by a world première entitled “tegruseR,”composed by guest conductor and artist-in-residence Michael Ostrzyga. The concert will conclude with the first performance of a new completion of the Requiem written by Ostrzyga, who will also conduct our performances. Maestro Ostrzyga is the Music Director at the University of Cologne where he conducts the Symphony Orchestra, Choir, and Chamber Choir, and he has gained an international reputation as a composer of choral music, having been commissioned by performers and festivals around the globe.

Joining the Group

If you sang in the Summer Chorus's 2016 concert in Sanders Theatre, you are invited to participate in the Chorus again this year without an audition. If you did not sing in the Chorus for last summer's concert, but you have sung in the chorus previously, we would like you to reaudition for the group.

Auditions will be held:

• Friday, June 16, 6–9 pm
• Saturday, June 17, 2–5 pm and 6–9 pm
• Sunday, June 18, 2–5 pm and 6–9 pm
• Monday, June 19, 5–9 pm

All auditions take place at Holden Chapel, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Mass.

No prepared piece is necessary, and you do not need to sign up for an audition time in advance. All auditions are first come, first served. For more information on our audition process, visit the website.