July 14, 2025 Encore Tours Announcing Prelude 2026 in Rome We’re excited to officially announce that Prelude 2026 will take place in Rome, Italy, from January 15–19, 2026, over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. Backstage Blog Learn More
June 12, 2025 Encore Tours Sing in Prague’s Iconic Smetana Hall: Join Encore Voices Festival 2026 Backstage Blog Learn More
April 22, 2025 Encore Tours How Encore’s Price Guarantee Protects Your Tour: No Surprises, Just Stability Backstage Blog Planning Your Tour Learn More
April 26, 2018 Kate Huffman Encore’s Musical Staff – Ward Dilmore As we’ve highlighted in previous posts about our fellow colleagues Jon and Maggie, Encore Tours’ staff is made up of musicians and music educators, allowing us to provide the best poss… Backstage Blog
April 19, 2018 Kate Huffman Prelude: Professional Development on a Major Scale Encore not only works to plan and organize exceptional performance tours for bands, choirs, orchestras, and other music groups across the country, we al… Backstage Blog Featured Resources
April 12, 2018 Kate Huffman Encore’s Musical Staff – Jon Linker As we explored in a previous blog post about our musical staff member, Maggie, Encore Tours’ unique ability to understand the needs of music directors comes from our personal musical backgro… Backstage Blog
April 5, 2018 Kate Huffman Music Moves and Connects Us: The Value of International Performance Tours Maria Belva and David Vernier, a husband and wife pair from New Hampshire, are preparing to lead their 8th international tour with the choir that they co-founded and lead together, the Cecilia Ens… Backstage Blog
March 29, 2018 Kate Huffman Encore’s Musical Staff – Maggie Rodriguez Encore Tours is unique because everyone on our team has a background in music and understands the needs and desires of music directors. Backstage Blog
March 18, 2018 Encore Tours Why Music Directors Choose Encore Why do music directors across the country choose Encore Tours to plan their band, choir, and orchestra trips? Hear what a few directors have to say! … Backstage Blog Featured Resources
March 16, 2018 Kate Huffman Prelude 2018: Music, Mozart, and Making Connections In January, Encore staff plus 38 music directors and companions traveled to Munich, Germany and Salzburg, Austria for Prelude 2018. Backstage Blog