By Rosanna Trestman

Norfolk will be singing this summer when the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival season
opens with a concert by the Yale Choral Artists, a new 24-voice chorus of professional
singers from around the U.S. It will be directed by Jeffrey Douma, who also directs the
Yale Glee Club, and will perform Rachmaninov’s “All Night Vigil, for unaccompanied
chorus.”

Bookending the summer will be a closing session of the Choral Conducting Workshop
with a concert led by one of the world’s great choral conductors and educators, Simon
Carrington. His professional reputation and notoriety (he appeared nine times on the
Tonight Show with Johnny Carson as a founding member of the King’s Singers) coupled
with a uniquely rigorous training has made it an especially competitive program. Since
its inception in 2006, applications have increased by 300%.

The Norfolk Music Shed was originally built by Carl and Ellen Battell Stoeckel for choral
music and performances of the Litchfield County Choral Union. The 2013 summer
season promises a continuation of Norfolk’s venerable choral tradition.