Choral Workshop

Northampton Community College
3835 Green Pond Rd
8020
Bethlehem, PA 18020
United States

Kent Tritle, director

August 14-21, 2022

The Choral Workshop will run week two of the Amherst Early Music Festival
Bethelehem, PA at Northampton Community College
Tuition $675
Repertoire tba

Come sing with us! 

Spend a week with highly-acclaimed conductor Kent Tritle and experience the joy of choral singing.
The Choral Workshop is designed to give the serious amateur choral singer an opportunity to learn and perform masterworks of the Renaissance and Baroque, within the context of the largest early music festival in the United States.
Choral Workshop faculty: Kent Tritle, Director, Mark Hanke, assistant, with section leaders Stephen Biegner, Anna Lenti, Emerson Sieverts, Peter Stewart, and Jamet Pittman.

TO APPLY  Please send a recording of a vocalization of your choice demonstrating the bottom to top of your vocal range along with a 16 bar exerpt from recent repertoire that you have performed. This can be with or without accompaniment, a solo piece, or your part in a choral work. Send by email to Click here to show mail address along with a short resume of your choral experience, and current choral affiliations. Include last 2-3 years of repertoire, major works, and early music that you have performed. *If you auditioned for Choral Workshop in 2018 or 2019 you do not need to audition again for 2020. If you auditioned in 2017 you will need to audition again for 2020, unless you are a current member of the Oratorio Society of New York.

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The 2019 Choral Workshop


There are many YouTube videos and online information on how to make a voice recording using a mobile phone. Here are two links explaining how to use voice memo on an iphone to make a recording:
YouTube video for iphone 4
WIkiHow page for iphone
You Tube video for Android
Need help? Give us a call!  (781-488-3337)

New to the Festival? Fear not! Our open and inviting atmosphere will make you feel at home right away.

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TRAVEL
Union College
807 Union Street, Schenectady, NY 12308
Close to a major airport (15+ minutes from Albany International Airport), accessible by Amtrak (station is 1 mile from Union College) and Megabus, Union College is 3 hours away by car from NYC and Boston, and 4 hours from Montreal.

MEALS
The meal card is $228 and covers one week of meals starting with dinner on Sunday, June 30, (July 7 for second week) thru breakfast on Sunday, July 7, (July 14 for second week). A la carte meal prices are $7.25, $10.25, and $11.00 for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

ROOMS
All standard rooms are air-conditioned with private baths. Budget rate housing is not air-conditioned, with hall baths. Basic linens (sheets, pillow, and towels) are included with all housing. Beds are twin, extra long.