2012 Festival Details & Registration

2012 Oregon Children’s Choral Festival!

The Oregon Children's Choral Festival was established in 1982 to provide an annual venue for school and community children's choirs to perform high quality choral music in the state of Oregon. The OCCF provides an opportunity for young singers aged 8-13 to meet and perform with other singers their own age in Oregon.

Each year hundreds, sometimes thousands, of young singers come for all over Oregon to attend this loved festival. Young singers get to perform for and received feedback from adjudicators and clinicians, some are chosen to perform for the whole festival and all choirs get to join in the mass pieces and experience the excitement and thrill of being in a world class performance hall!

Directors often tell us that the Festival is the highlight of their singers’ year because of all the fun, experience and music it brings to their education and lives.

If you’ve not yet been to the OCCF, you and your kids are in for a real treat. If you are a regular attendee, you already know what a great event it is… we’ll see you soon!

Guest Clinician – Debi Noel

Debi Noel is a faculty member at Lane Community College in the Music, Dance, and Theatre Arts Department. She is also an Adjunct Instructor for the University of Oregon, and Pacific University, and a trainer with AOSA (American Orff Schulwerk Association). She has been an elementary music instructor for 17 years.

She performs with The Jewel Tones, the Blue Skies Big Band, Eugene Chamber Singers, Eugene Recorder Ensemble. She has also sung with the Emerald City Jazz Kings, and been seen on stage in local musical theatre productions.

Debi has been the vocal director or instructor for several camps and theatres, including OFAM Musical Theatre Camp, Northwest Academy of Musical Theatre, Summer Musical Theatre Camp/Arts Umbrella, Musical Feet Studio of Dance, the Very Little Theatre, and Cottage Theatre, and the Young Men's Ensemble (Oregon Children's Choral Association). She also directs a Youth Choir at the First Congregational Church in Eugene.

Debi is a member of the Music Educators National Conference, American Orff Schulwerk Association, and National Educators Association.

Schedule

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Song Selection

Riversong
(A Celtic Celebration) Two-Part Roger Emerson
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Product # 3144631
UPC : 6540319092
Publisher # : 08741577
Level : Medium Easy
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Galop 
Unison/Two-Part 
Publisher: PAVANE PUBLISHING
Product # 10028692
UPC : 884088136093
Publisher # : 08301802
Editors' Choice 2007
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Furaha!
(Joy!)  Two-Part 
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Product # 10047087
UPC : 038081311364
Publisher # : 28592
Editors' Choice 2008Sally K. Albrecht Ken Berg
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Guest Performing Group


Minor Suspects - Oregon Children's Choir Young Men's Ensemble

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1. Please download, print and fill out the Registration Form.

(Click on the small form at left, then click on the "Show Original" link at bottom left of that image. You can then PRINT or "Right-Click" and "Save As" the image to your computer for use).

2. Please also give us a quick email back indicating that you will be coming and how many you’ll be bringing! That will help a lot with our planning!

 

Help Spread The Word!

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To help keep costs as low as possible, we won’t be sending out a paper mailing this year, and we don’t have a full list of email addresses for groups that might like to attend.

Please forward this file to any school or community music teachers that you think might be interested! Help spread the word!

(Click on the small form at left, then click on the "Show Original" link at bottom left of that image. You can then PRINT or "Right-Click" and "Save As" the image to your computer for use).

We look forward to this year’s festival with great excitement!

Sincerely,

Jennifer Searl - Oregon Children’s Choir

Bruce Searl – Festival Director

Aardvark Hill

You can use our Contact Us page to inquire about more information.

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2012 Festival Date Finalized!

2011 festival - Jessica having a great time!

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 is the official date for this year’s festival.

Mark your calendars, invite your friends. start talking it up with your kids and parents. This year should be even better than last year!

We'll be updating and finishing our site, including some way for you to start registering online. So check back now and then for more photos, info and updates about the 2012 Oregon Children's Choral Festival.

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2011 Festival Photos!

Here are some photos from the 2011 Oregon Children's Choral Festival. If you are looking for a great festival to bring your elementary through middle school choir to, this is the one. It's probably the most affordable and fun festival you can find. Many of our attending directors have been coming for dacades and say that it is the highlight of their students year. Just take a look at some of these photos and you'll start to get an idea of why you should be with us next time!


Lobby group photo taken after the festival with a few of the schools that could linger around.





Our Guest Performers, Resonate!  (Missing Chirs Dobson in this photo) was awesome!




Resonate! took about 1.2 seconds to get everyone in the hall up on their feet and cheering... then clapping and singing and racing down to front of the stage! I think they sounded great, but honestly, it was hard to tell with all the crowd cheering!





Back stage - Choirs waiting back stage for their cue to perform.



 

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2011 Choir Festival A Hit!

What a great day! We had about 800 kids from all over Oregon attend the festival this year and it was a blast for all who attended. Above is a shot at the end of the day with just a few of the kids that were able to linger while waiting for their buses.

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2011 Oregon Children's Choral Festival

2011 Oregon Children’s Choral Festival!

The Oregon Children's Choral Festival was established in 1982 to provide an annual venue for school and community children's choirs to perform high quality choral music in the state of Oregon. The OCCF provides an opportunity for young singers aged 8-13 to meet and perform with other singers their own age in Oregon.
Each year hundreds, sometimes thousands, of young singers come for all over Oregon to attend this loved festival. Young singers get to perform for and received feedback from adjudicators and clinicians, some are chosen to perform for the whole festival and all choirs get to join in the mass pieces and experience the excitement and thrill of being in a world class performance hall!
Directors often tell us that the Festival is the highlight of their singers’ year because of all the fun, experience and music it brings to their education and lives.
If you’ve not yet been to the OCCF, you and your kids are in for a real treat. If you are a regular attendee, you already know what a great event it is… we’ll see you soon!

Guest Clinician – David Fitch

David Fitch is the conductor of the Young Men's Ensemble and Young Women’s Ensemble of the Oregon Children’s Choir. He has been the Choral Director at Shasta Middle School for the past ten years. He received his Masters degree in Music Education from the U of O in 1995. David also serves as a clinician, adjudicator, and guest director of numerous honor choirs and choral festivals. He has a well-known piano and voice studio and many of his students have become professionals in the field of music. Besides music, David enjoys spending time with his family, anything to do with the Ducks, and has also been known to play a round or two of golf.

Song Selection

The JourneyArr. By Joseph M. Martin
Shawnee Press, Inc.
E 0361 2-part mixed
Part 2 will sing men’s part one octave higher
Humpty Dumptyby Dave & Jean Perry
Alfred
28546 2-part
Cantar! (Sing!)by Jay Althouse
Alfred
19311 2-part

Rezonate! Back Stage at Hult Center OCCF 2011

Guest Performing Group

Rezonate!

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Schedule:

8:30-9:25am 9:00 9:30-10:15 10:20-10:55 11:00-11:10 11:10-11:45 11:45-12:45 12:30 12:45-1:20 1:25-2:00 2:00-2:30 2:30

Registration Doors open to enter Hall Session 1 with David Fitch Groups Perform Activity Session 2 with David Fitch Lunch Doors open to Hall Groups Perform Session 3 & Recording with David Rezonate! Dismissal

Register Now!

1. Please download, print and fill out the Registration Form. (Right-click, Save As... or just Click it to Open)
2. Please also give us a quick email back indicating that you will be coming and how many you’ll be bringing! That will help a lot with our planning!
3. It’s been 6 years since the festival cost has been adjusted. We have found that the rising cost of the Hult Center and other expenses, along with the always variable number of attendees, we need to increase the cost of the festival to keep it viable. We’ve made arrangements to use either the smaller hall, the larger hall, or both halls depending on attendance. There is a sweet spot of about 500 people and then again from 1000-1300 or more to make things work. So we’ll be giving preference to the first responders on the smaller event size if we don’t get enough attendees to get into the large hall.

Spread The Word!

To help keep costs as low as possible, we won’t be sending out a paper mailing this year, and we don’t have a full list of email addresses for groups that might like to attend.
Please forward this email to any school or community music teachers that you think might be interested! Help spread the word!
We look forward to this year’s festival with great excitement!
Sincerely,

Jennifer Searl - Oregon Children’s Choir
Bruce Searl – Festival Director
Aardvark Hill

You can use our Contact Us page to inquire about more information.

Read more »

The Official Site/Blog is up!

Welcome to the official site of the Oregon Children's Choral Festival! After some deliberation, we decided to do our official site in the blog/site format so that you can comment and interact more easily with us.

This will be a place where we can share some of our favorite choral pieces with one another so that we'll have a resource of songs that everyone can come to when they are looking for something great to sing with their choir.

Coming up soon will be photos and quotes from the 2011 Festival and the date for next years festival.

We'll be posting short articles about the history and goals of the festival, along with information about past and future guest performers and clinicians.

Enjoy!

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