Oregon Children’s Choral Festival – 2016 Tuesday April 19th.

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2016 Tuesday April 19th
 

Our guest clinician is Christopher Olin, Instructor of Choral Music Education University of Oregon and Artistic Director Choirs of America.

We are thrilled to have Chis as our guest conductor for the 2016 festival! Chris is not just a crazy great choral conductor and musician, he is a crazy great guy! Fun, charming, funny and so kind and good to be around. Your whole choir will love him and we'll have a great time this spring.

Christopher Olin designs and implements the educational and artistic components of the Choirs of America programs. He also serves as instructor of choral music education at the University of Oregon where he teaches courses on vocal pedagogy, choral conducting, choral materials, and choral methods. Olin also oversees choral teacher licensure, choral music education graduate study, and assists in the coaching of graduate conductors; further, he serves as the conductor of the University Women’s Choir and University Singers.

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Thank You!

Yesterday was a wonderful day!

Great choirs, great songs, great clinician (Steven Zielke), great special guest (Peter Hollens) and most of all, GREAT SINGERS!

Many, many thanks to all the volunteers, directors, adjudicators, and Hult Center staff for a fabulous festival!

Bruce & Jennifer

Just a few of the photos from the day...

 

 

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1000 Peter Hollens Faces Makes Me Smile!

If you want to hear Peter Hollens tell his story about how he got to be a huge YouTube star, but think that you are too old to sing in the Oregon Children's Choral Festival, you're in luck!

Come to the Hult Center, Tuesday April 21st at 1:20pm to hear the mass choir recording session with 400 kids from all over Oregon followed by Peter Hollens, or at 2pm to catch Peter's session. Of course, no matter what your age, you'll need one of these pretty guest buttons to get in and we'll have them in the lobby for you for just $5 ($8 for full day button). Win!

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Peter Hollens - Special Guest for Oregon Children's Choral Festival 2015




Peter Hollens

I can't tell you how excited we are to have Peter with us!

At the festival, Peter will be sharing his story, his music, answering questions and inspiring our young singers to reach for their dreams and to start reaching now!

For those of you who know him, I don't need to introduce him. Those who haven't yet been touched by his heart and music are in for a real treat. There are a lot of "great" things listed below that Peter is doing and has done, but to me the best things about Peter shines even brighter.

What I really love about Peter is how he has managed to keep a sense of humility and kindness to those around him during his climb to notoriety. Like in this photo of him, you can see that the love of what he does and the people around him shines even brighter than the dazzle of lights around him. If you get to chat with him, he is still a real person that sees you as a real person too... even though he is totally stinkin’ awesome!

Peter Hollens is an American pop singer and producer best known for his work on YouTube as an a cappella cover artist. With over 950,000 subscribers, his videos have reached more than 100 million viewers since 2011. Hollens has collaborated with some amazing artists, including Jason Mraz, Hunter Hayes, Brian Wilson, Lindsey Stirling, Members of Pentatonix Avi Kaplan and Scott Hoying and many more.. He has released over 85 digital singles and has been involved with a cappella music since 1999 when he co-founded the University of Oregon’s male a cappella group On The Rocks. In 2010, he was featured on NBC’s The Sing Off Season 2 with On the Rocks and in 2014 he signed with Sony Masterworks. Peter also is an advisor for Patreon, Loudr, Tubular and on the Youtube creative advisory board, and consults and advises his fellow musicians all the time on best practices and how to succeed in the music industry.

See you all soon!

Sincerely,

Bruce & Jennifer Searl – Festival Directors

Oregon Children's Choral Festival/Aardvark Hill

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