Engaging leaders in sacred music, Duke Chapel offers students and community members the opportunity to grow as musicians and singers through workshops and clinics.
Sacred Choral Clinics
Church choir directors and singers learn vocal techniques and choral repertoire appropriate for the upcoming liturgical seasons in these clinics led by renowned conductors.
Sacred Choral Clinic with Hilary Apfelstadt
update: This event is postponed. check back here for the new date.
Saturday, January 24, 2026, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Duke Chapel
Choir singers and directors are invited to the Chapel’s third annual Sacred Choral Clinic with Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt, an internationally renowned conductor and pedagogue, who is Professor Emerita at the University of Toronto as well as a past president and former interim executive director of the American Choral Directors Association.
Participants will sing with the Duke Chapel Choir and other choirs from around North Carolina, as Dr. Apfelstadt teaches vocal techniques and introduces choral repertoire appropriate for the upcoming liturgical seasons. At the conclusion of the clinic, a brief public “informance” will be given, featuring the repertoire from the clinic interspersed with short organ works and hymns for all to sing.
Co-sponsored by the North Carolina chapter of the American Choral Directors Association and the Royal School of Church Music in America.
Chorworks
Through Duke Chapel, the nonprofit organization Chorworks offers an annual summer program. The workshop is led by Dr. Philip Cave, executive director of Chorworks and conductor-in-residence at Duke Chapel. Those invited to the program will receive a scholarship covering the full cost of tuition and housing (travel and meals not included).