Summer Singers of Atlanta

Midtown Atlanta

Registration for the 36th Summer Singers of Atlanta will open March 1, 2026.

King David

by Arthur Honegger

No audition is required for membership.  Participation is open to all adults and mature youth.  Registration opens March 1 of each year.

2026 SSA REGISTER & PAY AVAILABLE MARCH 1, 2026

Thomas Dixon, Music Director & Conductor
Leanne Elmer Herrmann, Organist & Accompanist

The Summer Singers of Atlanta was created in 1990 by William O. Baker as Atlanta’s “original summer chorus.” No audition is required for membership. Adults and mature youth are welcomed from all walks of life and at every level of musical experience and interest in the chorus, which averages between 100 and 150 members each year. Singers have traveled to Midtown Atlanta from as far as Savannah, Georgia, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Charlotte, North Carolina to be a part of weekly rehearsals in preparation for a grand choral masterwork performed with orchestra.

Led by music director Thomas Dixon since the 2025 concert season, The Summer Singers of Atlanta holds weekly Monday night rehearsals beginning in early June and continues until the performance in mid-August.  Novice singers are supported by the many music professionals and well-trained singers who are drawn to the opportunity to sing immortal works alongside professional soloists and top-notch orchestra musicians in an environment focused on learning.  Across the 35-plus years of the Summer Singers of Atlanta, both critics and audiences have marveled at the artistic excellence achieved in a truly community setting.

Masterworks performed in recent years have included Beethoven: Mass in C and Symphony No. 9; Mozart: Requiem, Solemn Vespers, and Mass in C minor; Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem; Haydn: The Creation, Te Deum and Lord Nelson Mass; Vivaldi: Gloria; Handel: Messiah (choruses); Orff: Carmina Burana; and dozens of other masterworks.

Mozart: Coronation Mass on YouTube
Brahms: EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM on YouTube
Ralph Vaughan Williams: O TASTE AND SEE & O HOW AMIABLE on YouTube
Ralph Vaughan Williams: LET ALL THE WORLD & THE OLD 100TH PSALM TUNE on YouTube
Ralph Vaughan Williams: DONA NOBIS PACEM on YouTube
Carl Orff: CARMINA BURANA on YouTube
Franz Joseph Haydn: THE CREATION on YouTube
Mozart: REQUIEM on YouTube

CONCERT PROGRAM 2025 MOZART CORONATION MASS
CONCERT PROGRAM 2024 RUTTER GLORIA

CONCERT PROGRAM 2023 SCHUBERT MASS IN Eb
CONCERT PROGRAM 2022 CATHEDRAL MASTERWORKS
CONCERT PROGRAM 2021 MOZART REQUIEM

CONCERT PROGRAM 2019 BRAHMS REQUIEM
CONCERT PROGRAM 2017 CARMINA BURANA

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