Adult Registration

For Altos, Tenors, & Basses ages 18+

In addition to singing with the choir, adults will participate in a daily forum featuring a wide range of topics of particular interest to adult choir members and choir directors. Please email us if you would like to suggest a topic for one of the forum sessions.

We are pleased to offer a new upgraded adult housing option which includes a private en-suite bathroom. Our base registration fee includes a single room with a shared bathroom (either a communal bathroom, a jack-and-jill setup, or a bathroom within a suite of shared rooms). The upgraded Private Single option is usually offered in either the Jack-and-Jill or suite style rooms, but the other rooms will not be filled, so the space is for yourself. The cost for the upgraded option is $250 and can be paid individually through Zeffy.

Application Instructions

**All adult participants must have two people submit reference forms on their behalf. In most cases, this should be your choir director and a clergy person. If you are a choir director, please have your clergy person and one other unrelated adult complete the form on your behalf.

 

We are often asked what skills are required of adult participants. While we believe that everyone benefits from participation in a choir, adults at RSCM DC will be most successful if they are comfortable with the following basic skills.

(RSCM RED RIBBON EQUIVALENT)

  1. Be able to sing a hymn acapella

  2. sing a psalm to Anglican/Plainsong; sing 4 verses acapella

  3. Sing an anthem: such as Byrd, Ave verum corpus; Bruckner, Locus iste; Wesley, Blessed be the God and father

  4. Sing a Magnificat from the standard repertoire, such has by Howells, Stanford or Brewer; or sing a solo for worship: such as Rutter, All things bright and beautiful

  5. sightread a hymn

  6. sing back 2 bar phrases

  7. sing intervals: 2nds through 6ths

  8. know your way around a score: time and key signatures, dynamics, note names, other musical terms

  9. know how to interpret the text and style of a piece and know its context

  10. be a regular member of a choir