We’re thrilled Encore University Logoto announce open registration for a reinvigorated (and expanded!) Encore University, featuring up to 15 live courses per semester (dependent on registration totals) facilitated by top-notch performer-educators.

Our Ear Training and Sight Singing, Class Voice, and Basic Musicianship courses will help hone your skills as a singer and musician. We’ll get you moving in Ballet for Beginners and Move, Connect, Create! and, if you’re a rock star at heart, you’ll love Rock-n-Roll History. Learn to conduct choral masterworks in Principles of Conducting, and get your pencils ready for Drawing and Sketching for Beginners. Music in Film and Music as Literature courses will inspire fabulous conversations while our Opera and Music Theater history classes will enrich your love of the stage.

There is so much to offer this semester and lots more coming in the next too!

All Encore University classes run Monday through Friday at 9am, 1pm, and 4pm. Can’t make a live class? Don’t worry! Every Encore University class is recorded and will be available on demand.

All registered students will also have access to a weekly Midday Recital Series and Midday Masterclass Series performed by the same incredible musicians and educators supporting our Encore University courses. Our Midday Series will run from 12-1230pm every Wednesday and be available on demand as well.

This expansive Encore University curriculum is available to you, all inclusive for up to 150 individual classes, plus a recital and masterclass series for $185 per semester; which is around $1.25 per class.

Here’s a peek at what we’re offering (up to 15 courses, in bold) this semester. Each 10-week course runs one hour per week, beginning the week of February 14, 2022. Click HERE to register.

Courses printed in bold are being offered this semester.

Voice Studio     

·Breathing for Singing 
·Diction for Singing I (The Romance Languages)
·Diction for Singing II (The Romance Languages)
·Ear Training and Sight-singing I
·Ear Training and Sight-singing II
·Class Voice 1 (2 courses)
·Class Voice 2                   

 

CLICK HERE FOR THE UPDATED ENCORE CREATIVITY SCHEDULE JUST ANNOUNCED.

 

This upcoming spring 2022 season will be one of Encore's most thrilling yet. We will be celebrating Encore's 15th anniversary and founder Jeanne Kelly. Jeanne has been working with Artistic Director Brian Isaac in planning a “Best of Encore” choral season that will culminate with a concert at Strathmore Music Center in North Bethesda, MD on May 14, 2022. This season will be about making great music together and showing gratitude and preparing for the future. 

Register TodayRegistration is officially open for both in-person and online rehearsals. Click on the link below to register.

A few things to note: 

  • Registration for all in-person live singing rehearsal is open. We have a new Chorale in Wilmington, DE with with former Associate Artistic Director David Simmons; and a new ROCKS, DC ROCKS, with Jeff Dokken.  We are so excited to launch these new locations since COVID and hope to see many more in the future.

All singers and conductors must show proof of full vaccination, including boosters.

Tuition for most locations is $190, however some vary.

CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION ON CHORALES.       CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION ON ROCKS.

We are also offering an online-only rehearsal option with our fabulous conductors for Winter/Spring; presenting both daytime and evening sessions. These rehearsals begin the week of January 24, 2022. Zoom links will be provided to you in advance to join these rehearsals. 

DAYTIME: Tuesdays at 1:00 p.m. for Chorale (starting January 25, 2022); Thursdays at 1:00 p.m. for ROCKS (starting January 27, 2022)

EVENING: Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. for Chorale (starting January 25, 2022); Thursday at 6:30 p.m. for ROCKS (starting January 27, 2022)

Please note: If you register after January 14, you have 3 options for obtaining your music: 
1) Arrange for pick-up at the Encore Annapolis office; 
2) Have it shipped to you for a fee of $10.00; 
3) Access digital music online until the first in-person rehearsal the week of February 7.
 

To continue this offering and make it sustainable we had to adjust tuition slightly. The cost of tuition for all online rehearsals with the option to perform live at Strathmore is $160 per chorale and $160 per ROCKS offering.  
Another adjustment we have made is if you choose to do an in person chorale or ROCKS and add an additional online experience with either chorale or ROCKS it will be the full tuition cost of both offerings. Tuition cost for (1) in person season and (1) online season will be $350 total. 

  • All live and online rehearsals are separate from a new and expanded Encore University program. Registration is now open for EU as well. There are many fun and informative classes and workshops for you to explore.

 TO REGISTER FOR IN-PERSON or ONLINE REHEARSALS CLICK HERE.

Joshua Vickery 2 Encore Creativity Corporation is pleased to announce the appointment of Joshua Vickery as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the organization. Vickery joined Encore of October 18, 2021.

“The Board of Directors of Encore is very pleased to present Joshua Vickery as the new CEO of Encore,” said Anthony Tambasco, President, Encore Board of Directors. “Joshua is the right person at the right time to take over the reins, and move Encore from its founders to the next generation.  He was himself a founder of a very diverse arts community, so he comes with vast experience and a passion for continuing, growing, and leading Encore.  His conversations with the Board reveal that he wants to hit the ground running. We welcome him and relish the promise he brings for the future.”

Brian IsaacEncore Creativity is pleased to announce the appointment of Brian J. Isaac as the new Artistic Director. Isaac came onboard beginning September 7, 2021 to fill the vacancy of retiring Founder and Artistic Director, Jeanne Kelly. 

“The Board of Directors of Encore is very pleased to present Brian Isaac as the new Artistic Director of Encore,” said Anthony Tambasco, President. “Those who participated in Encore University last fall already met Brian in the courses he offered.  He is smart, well organized, impeccably trained, experienced, sensitive in his work with chorales, and committed to the mission of Encore Creativity.  We welcome him and look forward to his taking over the leadership of our many chorales.”

Isaac holds a Master of Music in Music Education from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor of Music Education from Old Dominion University. A former Marine, Brian also holds a Bachelor of Science in English from the United States Naval Academy.