Festival Details

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2013 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 – Chris Dobson

Chris Dobson, Conductor of the Oregon Children's Choir Boychoir and the Young Men's Ensemble - Minor Suspects, holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the University of Oregon. He grew up in Eugene, participating in the Oregon Children’s Choir throughout his childhood. Chris is an alumnus of the first Oregon Boychoir. He has sung in many other choirs, including On the Rocks (the University of Oregon’s male collegiate a cappella group). He directed the First United Methodist Church youth choir for two years. As an active local musician, he conducts and sings with various local choirs throughout the performance season. He has also served as clinician and guest conductor for choral festivals in Eugene and Albany. Chris currently teaches music at Spencer Butte Middle School and South Eugene High School, and sings with the contemporary a cappella group, Rezonate. He is also an active composer and arranger, having won the best original arrangement award at the Northwest Harmony Sweepstakes competition in March of 2009.

Schedule

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Mass Choir Song Selection

I Give You a Song
Composer: Amy Bernon, SSA
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Everlasting Melody

Composer: Rollo Dilworth, 3-part mixed
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Good Friend (Round)
Composer: Jan Harman
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Guest Performing Group

Synergy! - Oregon Children's Choir Young Women's a cappella group.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Searl - Oregon Children’s Choir

Bruce Searl – Festival Director

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