CHILDREN'S CHOIR FESTIVAL:
Saturday, April 25th, 2009 in Claremont, California
Celebrating Children's Voices - 2nd Children's Community Chorus Festival in Claremont, CA. For treble choir members aged 8-17 years old (or 1st-12th grade equivalent).
PARTICIPATING CHOIRS 2009:
East Valley Children's Choir
Inland Valley Youth Chorale
San Fernando Valley Youth Chorus
The children performed three mass pieces (To Music - Unison, by Betty Bertaux, Laudamus te - 2part, from Vivaldi's Gloria, Jordan's Angels - SSA, by Rollo Dilworth). CD's and Photo purchases were available. Groups were given time to work on their own two solo selections for the concert.
Was our Festival Clinician, Dr. Andrew Crane - Professor of Music, Cal. State San Bernardino and director of the Mountainside Master Chorale! Dr. Crane received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting from Michigan State University, where he studied under David Rayl, Jonathan Reed, and Sandra Snow. Dr. Crane earned undergraduate and master's degrees from Brigham Young University, under the tutelage of Ronald Staheli and Mack Wilberg.
A lyric tenor, he has had much experience in performing a variety of styles on the concert stage. Recent performances include the tenor solo work in Orff's Carmina Burana, Beethoven's Mass in C, and Bach's St. Matthew Passion. In California, he has appeared as a soloist with the Loma Linda Symphony, Pomona College Orchestra, Riverside Master Chorale, Redlands Chamber Music Society, and other groups. Crane was a recent winner of the Redlands Bowl Young Artists Competition.
We were also very excited to have Tatiana Thibodeaux as our accompanist. Born in Russia, Tatiana Thibodeaux came to the United States to participate in a Music Festival and remained in California since. Her educational background begins in St. Petersburg (Russia), where she received her B.M. and M. M. degree in piano performance from the Rimsky-Korsakov Music Conservatory. She has continued her journey in California, obtaining M.M. in piano at the Cal State Fullerton in the piano studio of Eduardo Delgado and D.M.A. degree in piano performance at the Claremont Graduate University, Graduate Council Fellow, under the guidance of Dr. Hao Huang.
Ms. Thibodeaux has won top prizes in numerous competitions, including two Russian Young Artist National Piano Competitions, Liszt International Piano Competition (Weimar), Association Musicale Mˇrignac Aquitaine (France), PTNA Piano Competition for Promising Artists (Japan), CSUF Piano Concerto Competition and many others.
Her active performance career includes numerous solo concerts and collaborative work with orchestras (San Bernardino Symphony, Lyric Orchestra, St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and others) and chamber groups (Allegro Trio in Weimar, Germany; Trio Bravi in Claremont, California and Piano Trio Romantique in Budapest, Hungary). Tatiana was a guest artist at the Hungarian and UK Liszt Society Concert Series, International Romania Music Festival, Aspen, Ural Classical Series, and Tokyo International Music Festivals. Her performances have been featured on radio and television stations in Russia, Hungary, France, Romania, and Japan.
The choirs from 2007...
Singing "Let's Make Music America", Arr. Gilpin - Festival Choir of 233 Voices and 7 area choirs!
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