Welcome to the Royal School of Church Music in America Carolina Summer Choral Residency -- a week long course of sacred music.
2027 Course dates are June 21st - 27th
August 2, 2026
Mark your calendars. The 2027 RSCM Carolina Summer Choral Residency will be held June 21st - 27th, 2027, and we return to Saint Mary’s School in Raleigh, NC, with our closing services at Duke Chapel in Durham. Next summer is our 30th annual residency, and we are definitely planning to celebrate!
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.
Your tax deductible donation to the RSCM Carolina Summer Choral Residency helps provide quality music education and brings sacred music to the Triangle.