San Diego Summer Choral Festival

Registration is now open for the 6th annual San Diego Summer Choral Festival! Click here for more information and to register:

2019 Summer Choral Festival – San Diego Pro Arte Voices San Diego Summer Choral Festival July 25-27, 2019 Dr. Patrick Walders, Founder & Artistic Director The San Diego Summer Choral Festival is a three day and evening workshop, which includes rehearsals and sectionals on festival repertoire (performed in concert on Saturday night), vocal master classes,...

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Group Voice Lessons for the Aging Voice are back after selling out the first session! Join SDPAVs Artistic Director, Patrick Walders, Sunday, November 19 at 2:30 p.m. to learn proper breathing techniques, IPA & diction, vocal pedagogy, and vocalizes, all designed to keep your voice strong and healthy.

Classes are laid out for participants to take them in succession, as well as for new voice students to jump in at any point.

For more information and to register, visit: https://sdproartevoices.org/2017-group-voice-lessons-for-the-aging-voice.

"Patrick [Walders] is an excellent conductor and I enjoyed all of the clinicians. Having a composer in residence or a 'musical personality' is an additional draw. We had a great time and made good music!" – Leslie

This festival will improve singing technique and get voices in a condition to sing well. It's a happy, energetic, very helpful singing experience, run by a really friendly, professional faculty. I can't leave out the professionals concerts (Festival Faculty and San Diego Pro Arte Voices): we could hear the results of all the things you were teaching during the festival. Amazing sounds!!!

– Jeanne

"I enjoyed being able to give sustained focus to improving my vocal technique and expression in a group setting. Singing together with all the other participants—in the Schola under Luke and with the larger chorus under Patrick and Shawn—and sharing time, in general, with all faculty, staff, and other participants in the festival were highlights.

The program is extraordinarily well-planned, well-taught, enjoyable, and nurturing. What you learn and practice during the festival will continue to help you perform and develop long after the program itself has concluded."

-Ned

"These festivals are opportunities to connect, sing new music, learn a different perspective on choir rehearsal practices, get expert singing lessons from Master artists, and hear amazing singers. It's great to be around excellent artists like Shawn, Jennifer, Angela, Luke, Tasha, Dr. Walders, and Dr. Chase, who are Masters of their art, but also kind and encouraging to students like me. This inspires me to keep working and gives me an example of excellence to reach for. Every year I learn at least one invaluable lesson about the voice that I don't hear anywhere else."

– Heather

I'll Be On My Way, by Shawn Kirchner, performed by the 2017 SDSCF Faculty.

San Diego Summer Choral Festival 2017—I'll Be On My Way, by Shawn Kirchner San Diego Summer Choral Festival 2017 Patrick Walders, Artistic Director I'll Be on My Way Shawn Kirchner, composer-in-residence SDSCF 2017 Festival Faculty

It's finally here! Listen to the recording of Shawn Kirchner's Song of Myself, commissioned for the fifth anniversary San Diego Summer Choral Festival. Featuring the participants of the SCF, Shawn Kirchner at the piano, Jennifer Paulino, soprano, and conducted by Patrick Walders.

San Diego Summer Choral Festival 2017—Song of Myself, world premier, by Shawn Kirchner San Diego Summer Choral Festival 2017 Patrick Walders, Artistic Director Song of Myself, world premier Shawn Kirchner, composer-in-residence SDSCF 2017 Festi...