Summer Singers of Lee’s Summit
12th Concert Season
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Registration for the 12th Summer Singers of Lee’s Summit opens March 1, 2026.
Robert Ray’s Gospel Mass
&
Gospel selections by Andre Crouch, Byron Smith, and
Grace Dorsey Landy
Dr. William O. Baker, Music Director
Dr. Geoffrey Wilcken, Accompanist
Niccole Williams, MME, Associate Music Director
No audition is required for membership. Participation is open to all adults and mature youth.
Second rehearsal of Summer Singers 2016 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Dr. William O. Baker, Music Director & Conductor
Niccole Williams, MME, Associate Music Director
Jamea J. Sale, PhD, Executive Associate Music Director
Sean Sweeden, DMA, Composer in Residence
The Summer Singers of Lee’s Summit was created in 2014 to serve the growing Kansas City area communities of Lee’s Summit, Blue Springs, Independence, Lake Lotawana, and beyond. The 75-member chorus has performed concerts of diverse classics, including Mozart's Missa Brevis in D and Coronation Mass, Handel: Coronation Anthems and choruses from Messiah, Vivaldi: Gloria and Beatus Vir; Haydn: The Creation and Fauré Requiem, each presented with distinguished soloists and members of the Kansas City Symphony.
The Summer Singers of Lee’s Summit was led by music director Jennifer Lahasky in 2020-2024. In 2022, the chorus performed the Requiem of Gabriel Fauré. In 2023, the Summer Singers of Lee’s Summit presented an acclaimed performance of Donald McCullough’s Holocaust Cantata in collaboration with local rabbis and artwork from the Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy students. Dr. William O. Baker returned as Music Director and Conductor for the 2025 season with Niccole Williams, MME, as Associate Music Director.
AVE VERUM CORPUS by Mozart on YouTube
REQUIEM by Mozart on YouTube
REGINA COELI by Mozart on YouTube
BEATUS VIR by Vivaldi on YouTube
CORONATION MASS by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on YouTube
THE CREATION by Franz Joseph Haydn on YouTube
Fauré REQUIEM Summer Singers of Lee's Summit on YouTube
2023 HOLOCAUST CANTATA by Donald McCullough on YouTube
2024 Ramirez: MISA CRIOLLA ON YouTube
2025 Mozart: MISSA BREVIS on YouTube
CONCERT PROGRAM 2025 MOZART MISSA BREVIS
CONCERT PROGRAM 2024 RAMIREZ MISA CRIOLLA
CONCERT PROGRAM 2023 HOLOCAUST CANTATA
CONCERT PROGRAM 2022 FAURE REQUIEM
CONCERT PROGRAM 2021 SCHUBERT MASS IN G
CONCERT PROGRAM 2019 MOZART REQUIEM
