Finger Lakes Choral Festival

The Finger Lakes Choral Festival

Finger Lakes Choral Festival Performance at Chautauqua Institution

2010 Choral Festival - The Berlioz Requiem

Hold onto your hats! 200 singers, a full onstage orchestra, four brass bands, lots of timpani, bass drums and cymbals. This work is HUGE! Stunning? Awesome? Bombastic? Were still trying to come up with a fitting adjective to describe the Napoleonic Grandeur of the "Grande Messe des Morts." But don't take our word for it, visit the " Tuba mirum" link below and listen for that magical moment of exquisite cacophony a little over four minutes into the clip. That alone is reason to join us this summer for the musical ride of your life.

Rehearsals begin on May 26, and performances are scheduled for Saturday, July 24, and Sunday, July 25, at Hochstein Performance Hall in Rochester.

Tuba Mirum from the Berlioz Requiem

The Choral Festival makes the New York Times. Click the following link to read the article and hear the NY Times Online performance of Mozart's Ave Verum from our 2006 Choral Festival.

New York Times Online article

The Mission of the Finger Lakes Choral Festival

The Finger Lakes Choral Festival, now in its eighth season, brings together singers each summer from more than 50 Greater Rochester and Finger Lakes area communities, as well as visitors from other states and countries. The Choral Festival has performed before over 25,000 concert-goers, with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra at the 5000 seat CMAC Performing Arts Center in Canandaigua, with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra at Chautauqua Institution's Historic Amphitheater, and at Hochstein Performance Hall in Rochester.

All singers with prior choral experience are invited to participate. For information on how to join the chorus, visit the Registration Information link below. To be added to our mailing list, please send your name and address--and also your voice part if you are interested in singing in future concerts.

fingerlakeschoral@earthlink.net