Welcome to the Royal School of Church Music in America Carolina Summer Choral Residency -- a week long course of sacred music.
2026 Course dates are June 22nd - 28th
June 19, 2026
The Episcopal Church Welcomes You, and so does the RSCM Carolina Summer Choral Residency! All are welcome to our closing services at Duke Chapel on Sunday, June 28th, 2026. Whether you have friends and family taking part in the Course, or you simply love beautiful sacred music, come and worship with us in the beauty of holiness. There are no tickets and no arrangements to make. Come as you are, and join us in the musical offerings the choristers have prepared all week.
March 26, 2026
The RSCMA Carolina Summer Choral Residency is pleased to welcome Käthe Wright Kaufman as this year’s Course Organist!
January 15, 2026
The RSCMA Carolina Summer Choral Residency is pleased to welcome Kristin Lensch as this year’s Music Director! Kristin Lensch serves as organist-choirmaster at Calvary Episcopal Church, Memphis. She oversees a vibrant music program consisting of four choirs, a Friends of Music concert series, monthly Evensong services, and tri-annual residencies at English cathedrals. She holds degrees from The University of Iowa, Indiana University, and The University of Memphis. She maintains a private organ studio, is active in the Royal School of Church Music America and the Association of Anglican Musicians, and serves the American Guild of Organists as its Southeast Regional Ambassador.
May 11, 2025
We’re excited to welcome everyone to the RSCMA Carolina Summer Choral Residency in July. Regrettably, due to circumstances beyond our control, we’ve have had to postpone having Tansy Castledine with us as our Music Director this year. We very much look forward to having her at the Course next summer in 2026. For this year’s Residency, Dr. Joseph Causby from the Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill, NC has very graciously agreed to step in and serve as our substitute Music Director. Joe is no stranger to RSCM America, and will be a familiar and friendly face for many of us. Welcome, Joe!
Your tax deductible donation to the RSCM Carolina Summer Choral Residency helps provide quality music education and brings sacred music to the Triangle.