Encore Chorale

Encore is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing an excellent, accessible, and sustainable artistic environment for adults 55 and over, regardless of experience or ability, who seek arts education and performance opportunities under the instruction of a professional artist.

Encore Chorale comprises 11 chorales from the Washington and Baltimore area, including the Goodwin Houses of Alexandria and Baileys Crossroads, Virginia; Myerberg Senior Center in Baltimore; Langston Brown Senior Center in Arlington; the Smithsonian Resident Associates Program; Potomac Academy of George Mason University in residence at the Woodlands Retirement Community; Schweinhaut Senior Center in Silver Spring; Anne Arundel Community College; Springfield, Virginia; and Asbury Solomons in southern Maryland. Encore also has an Affiliate Encore Chorale in Hudson, Ohio.

During the summer months, Encore presents the St. Mary’s College of Maryland Institute as well as the famed Chautauqua Institution in New York. The St. Mary’s Institute, June 19-23, 2012, will include choral, dance, and band tracks. The band program will be in partnership with the New Horizons International Music Association. The Chautauqua Institute, August 26 -31, 2012, will include choral, dance, and theater programs, partnering with The Dance Exchange of Takoma Park, Maryland, and the Stagebridge Theatre of Oakland, CA.

Encore has also offered “Singing at Sea” voyage on cruise ships, including the Queen Mary 2 from New York to Southampton, and Caribbean cruises aboard the Celebrity and Royal Caribbean lines. Encore’s next “Singing at Sea” voyage will be from Puerto Rico to the Caribbean aboard Royal Caribbean’s Serenade of the Seas, February 25 – March 3, 2012.

Encore’s Institutes and cruises are open to any interested singer over the age of 55. It is not necessary to be a current Encore Chorale member.
The chorales rehearse weekly for 15 weeks and then perform community concerts at venues that have included the Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center, Thomas Jefferson Community Theatre in Arlington, the Kogod Courtyard at the National Portrait Gallery, The Renwick Gallery, National Building Museum, Arlington Remembers Concert, White House Conference on Aging, Society for Arts in Healthcare Conference, the American Society on Aging Conference, and at the residence of the Japanese Ambassador.

Please learn more about Encore at http://encorecreativity.org