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Join us for the George E. Kent memorial
Ogontz Choral Workshop
Sunday, July 18th – Saturday, July 24th, 2027
in the White Mountains of New Hampshire
Rossini | Petite messe solennelle
Martin | Mass for Double Choir
Central Choral Program
for singers of all ages and abilities
A wonderful summer retreat for singers of all levels! The Ogontz experience offers the perfect balance between peaceful mountain getaway and choral festival intensive. Join with other choristers from far and wide for daily rehearsals and delicious homemade meals in a historical camp setting like no other.
Cost of attendance is $1,500 and includes tuition, music rental, lodging and meals
Vocal Scholars Institute
for career-track voice students
Whether you are just starting your undergraduate degree, preparing for an upcoming degree recital, or a recent graduate entering the musical profession, the Ogontz Vocal Scholars Institute offers excellent artistic development opportunities in a picturesque natural setting. Work with our outstanding voice faculty in private lessons, perform a solo piece in our beautiful performance hall, conduct an excerpt of the week’s repertoire, and make new vocalist friends all in a supportive choral environment.
All vocal scholars attend on full scholarships funded by the Ogontz Arts Foundation Meg Frost Memorial Scholarship Fund
Workshop Faculty
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David Hill
Choral Conductor / Workshop Leader
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Caroline O’Dwyer
Vocal Instructor
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Jolle Greenleaf
Vocal Instructor
Life at Ogontz
Ogontz Camp is a magnificent 350+ acre facility in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The camp overlooks Lake Ogontz, a small, semi-private lake with a spectacular view of the mountains beyond.
Living space at Ogontz varies from several modest indoor cabins (with indoor plumbing and enclosed bedrooms), to about 45 Adirondack style cabins (with three open sides, equipped with storm flaps, tables, personal cubbies, beds, chairs, electricity), all close to shower and toilet facilities.
Cabins can accommodate one to four people, although they rarely have more than two people, and solo cabins are usually possible. While completing the registration form, participants will be asked to indicate housing preferences.
Ogontz Choral Workshop repertoire over the years
2026 with David Hill
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
2025 with David Hill
Dvorak: Requiem
Byrd: Mass for four voices
Byrd: Mass for five voices
Rutter: The Sprig of Thyme
2024 with David Hill
Verdi: Requiem
European Sacred Music (ed. Rutter)
2023 with David Hill
Bach: Mass in b minor
2022 with David Hill
Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor
Brahms: Vier Quartette
2021 with David Hill (via Zoom for three days)
Dvorak: Requiem
2020 with David Hill (via Zoom for three days)
Beethoven: Mass in C
Bach: Magnificat in D
Rutter: Requiem (with guest appearance by John Rutter!)
2019 with David Hill
Delius: Sea Drift
Sacred Choruses (ed. Rutter)
2018 with David Hill
Britten: War Requiem
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Parry: My soul there is a country
2017 with David Hill
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
European Sacred Music (ed. Rutter)
2016 with Tim Brown
Stanford: Song to the Soul
Vaughan Williams: Hodie
English Church Music: Anthems and Motets, Vol. I (ed. R. King and J. Rutter)
2015 with David Hill
Pizzetti: Missa da Requiem
Chester Book of Motets – The Italian School for four voices
Palestrina: Missa brevis
2014 with David Hill
Fauré: Requiem
Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
Messiaen: O sacrum convivium
Villette: Hymne à la Vierge
Poulenc: Salve Regina
Poulenc: Exsultate Deo
Poulenc: O magnum mysterium
2013 with David Hill
Lauridson: Lux aeterna
Rheinberger: Mass in E-flat
Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast
2012 with David Hill and George Kent
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
Purcell: Come ye sons of art
Stanford: Songs of the Fleet
Toch: Geographical fugue
Vaughan Williams: Toward the unknown region
Parry: Songs of Farewell
Victoria: Requiem of 1605
2011 with David Hill and James Litton
Bach: Der Geist hilft
Byrd: Ne irascaris/Civitas sancti tui
Martin: Mass for double choir
Verdi: Pater noster, volgarizzato da Dante
Bach: St. John Passion
Byrd: Mass for Four Voices
Handel: Sing unto God
Parry: Hear my words
Poulenc: Gloria
English Romantic Partsongs (ed. Hiller)
2010 with Sir David Willcocks and Richard Marlow
Bach: Magnificat in D
Beethoven: Mass in C Major
Brahms: Requiem
Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
Rutter: Magnificat
Bach: Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden (Motet VI)
Byrd: Laudibus in sanctis
Kodaly: Missa brevis
Mendelssohn: Sechs Sprüche, op. 79
2009 with Sir David Willcocks and Richard Marlow
Rutter: Mass of the Children
Verdi: Four Sacred Pieces
Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region
Handel: Dixit Dominus
Mozart: Mass in C Minor
Rheinberger: Mass in E-flat
Bach: Jesu, meine Freude
Tippett: Five Spirituals from A Child of our Time
2008 with Sir David Willcocks and Richard Marlow
Bach: Nun ist das Heil
Handel: Messiah
Haydn: Mass in Time of War
Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore
Rutter: Requiem
J. C. Bach: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme
D. Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
Tallis: The Lamentations of Jeremiah
Walton: Cantico del Sole
2007 with Sir David Willcocks and Richard Marlow
Bach: Mass in B Minor
Byrd: Mass for Five Voices
Haydn: Creation
Mozart: Requiem
Rutter: Gloria
Handel: Dettingen Te Deum
Palestrina: Stabat Mater
Poulenc: Mass in G
2006 with Sir David Willcocks and Richard Marlow
Blake: Benedictus
Mendelssohn: Elijah
Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens
J. Willcocks: Lux Perpetua
Handel: Dixit Dominus
Schoenberg: Friede auf Erde
Stanford: Magnificat, op. 164
2005 with Sir David Willcocks and Richard Marlow
Bach: St. Matthew Passion
Duruflé: Requiem
Haydn: Nelson Mass
Poulenc: Gloria
Byrd: The Great Service
Handel: Coronation Anthems
Parry: Songs of Farewell
2004 with Richard Marlow and George Kent
Handel: Israel in Egypt
Victoria: Tenebrae Responses
Holst: Hymn of Jesus
Mozart: Regina Coeli in C
Victoria: Missa O Magnum Mysterium
Verdi: Requiem
Bush: In Praise of Mary
Gounod: Messe Solennelle
Verdi: Requiem
2003 with Sir David Willcocks and Richard Marlow
Howells: Hymnus Paradisi
Honegger: King David
Palestrina: Missa Assumpta est Maria
Mendelssohn: Hymn of Praise
Poulenc: Lenten Motets
Rutter: Magnificat
Bach: Mass in B minor
2002 with Sir David Willcocks and Richard Marlow
Bach: St. John Passion
Elgar: The Music Makers
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Minor
Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast
Britten: Hymn to Saint Cecilia
Britten: Flower Songs
Britten: Sacred and Profane
Bruckner: Sacred Choruses
2001 with Sir David Willcocks and Richard Marlow
C. P. E. Bach: Magnificat
Beethoven: Mass in C
Byrd: Mass for Four Voices
Fauré: Requiem
Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna
Mozart: Coronation Mass
Mozart: Mass in C Minor
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Vaughan Williams: Hodie
Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region
Brahms: Motets
2000 with Sir David Willcocks and Richard Marlow
Blake: Benedictus
Bruckner: Mass in E Minor
Handel: Dixit Dominus
Haydn: Mass in Time of War
Howells: Requiem
Bach: Motets
1999 with Sir David Willcocks
Bach: Magnificat in D
Bach: Weihnachts
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Handel: Coronation Anthems
Mozart: Solemn Vespers
Palestrina: Missa Aeterna Christi Munera
Poulenc: Gloria
Thompson: The Peaceable Kingdom
Vaughan Williams: Benedicite
J. Willcocks: Magnificat
J. Willcocks: Sing Praises
1998 with Sir David Willcocks
Bach: Nun ist das Heil
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody
Brahms: Requiem
Britten: Ceremony of Carols
Byrd: Mass for Five Voices
Duruflé: Requiem
Haydn: Nelson Mass
Honegger: Christmas Cantata
Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens
Rutter: Gloria
1997 with Sir David Willcocks
Bach: Christ lag in Todes Banden
Bach: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben
C. P. E. Bach: Magnificat
Beethoven: Mass in C
Honegger: King David
Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
Rutter: Requiem
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Minor
1996 with Sir David Willcocks
Brahms: Nanie
Brahms: Schicksalslied
Bruckner: Te Deum
Elgar: The Music Makers
Gounod: Messe Solennelle
Handel: Israel in Egypt
Poulenc: Hodie
Poulenc: O Magnum Mysterium
Poulenc: Quem Vidistis
Puccini: Messa di Gloria
Rutter: Birthday Madrigals
Rutter: Magnificat
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
1995 with Sir David Willcocks
Bach: Mass in B Minor
Bach: St. Matthew Passion
Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb
Byrd: Mass for Four Voices
Dvorak: Requiem
Mozart: Vespers
Poulenc: Gloria
Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region
1994 with Sir David Willcocks
Bach: Magnificat in D
Fauré: Requiem
Haydn: Creation
Haydn: Harmoniemesse
Mendelssohn: Elijah
Mozart: Requiem
Respighi: Laud to the Nativity
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
1993 with Sir David Willcocks
Bach: Mass in B Minor
Bach: Weihnachts
Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes
Fauré: Requiem
Handel: Dettingen Te Deum
Haydn: Nelson Mass
1992 with Sir David Willcocks
Bach: Nun ist das Heil
Bach: Magnificat in D
Brahms: Requiem
Dvorak: Stabat Mater
Handel: My heart is inditing
Handel: The King shall rejoice
Handel: Zadok the priest
Handel: Let thy hand be strengthened
Handel: Sing unto God
Handel: Messiah
Haydn: Paukenmesse
Mathias: Ave Rex
Mozart: Coronation Mass
1991 with Sir David Willcocks
Duruflé: Requiem
Palestrina: Missa brevis
Vaughan Williams: Hodie
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Minor
Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region
1990 with Sir David Willcocks
Beethoven: Mass in C
Haydn: Nelson Mass
Brahms: Requiem