Sing Sacred Place by Alex Berko on top of a mountain with the Wintergreen Music Festival!
Rehearsals: July 15-19, 2025*
Performance: July 19, 2025
*While full attendance is encouraged, the only mandatory dates are July 17-19.
Virtual preparation session options available in June
In 2023, singers performed Ola Gjeilo’s stunning Sunrise Mass with the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra to usher in a beautiful day on the mountain!
Save the date for a memorable week of choral singing. Singers from around the country will gather to perform a world premiere version of Alex Berko’s magnificent Sacred Place.
Premiered in 2023 by Conspirare in a version with piano trio accompaniment, Sacred Place is a six-movement work with text by writers such as John Muir, Wendell Berry, William Stafford, and Rabindranath Tagore. It touches on themes of nature and the environment, and is a perfect piece for our performance setting in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Berko will be creating a new version for chorus, full string orchestra, and piano - to premiered by YOU at the 2025 Wintergreen Music Festival.
Get to know Alex through his Facebook or Instagram profiles, and visit https://www.alexberko.com/sacred-place to hear excerpts and learn more!
For questions, please contact us at sing@wintergreenmusic.org
In 2017, more than 80 singers came from as far as Florida and Chicago to sing Mozart's Requiem on top of beautiful Wintergreen Mountain.
SING WITH US! 2025
PERFORMANCE DATE: Saturday, July 19 at 7:00 pm – MountainTop Masterworks III (One night only!)
REHEARSAL DATES: Tuesday, July 15 through 19, 2025*
PERFORMANCE LOCATION: Dunlop Pavilion atop Wintergreen Mountain
REPERTOIRE: Sacred Place by Alex Berko for chorus, soloists, piano, and full string orchestra
*While full attendance is encouraged, the mandatory dates are July 17-19.
For questions, please contact us at sing@wintergreenmusic.org
In 2018, Sing with Us! particpants gave an epic performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 – in “surround sound”. 100 singers, full orchestra, international soloists – all on top of a mountain!
MEET YOUR CONDUCTOR: Erin Freeman
Maestra Erin Freeman is Artistic Director of Wintergreen Music & The City Choir of Washington, Director of the Saint Louis Symphony Chorus, and Principal Conductor of the Richmond Ballet. Read her full bio here!
