Cincinnati Children’s Choir

The Cincinnati Children’s Choir is celebrating its 23rd season serving young singers from Southwestern Ohio, Northern Kentucky and Southeastern Indiana. Each year, the program impacts over 1000 Greater Cincinnati children in grades one through twelve. Presently, the program involves children in seven resident choirs, twelve satellite choirs, the summer festival choir, the Cincinnati Public School Honor Choir, and the Cincinnati Choral Academy. CCC’s Bel Canto Choir was a featured ensemble at Carnegie Hall in March 2013, in Beijing’s Forbidden City Concert Hall in 2014, and at the St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City in 2015. Regionally, CCC has performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO), Cincinnati Pops, Vocal Arts Ensemble, May Festival Chorus, Cincinnati Opera, Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Choral Society, and University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) ensembles.

CCC has performed for the American Choral Directors Association’s (ACDA) Central Division Conference and in the Champions Category of the World Choir Games where they earned a gold medal and came in first in their category in the United States. In addition, CCC has performed at the Ohio Music Educators Association (OMEA), Music Educator’s National Conference (MENC) Regional Convention, the Ohio Choral Directors Association (OCDA), and the American Orff Schulwerk Association (AOSA) National Convention. The advanced choir earned recognition in July 2008 at the Llangollen International Music Eistedfodd in Wales, representing Cincinnati and the USA in the Senior Children’s Choir Division.

As an active commissioner of new music, CCC values the opportunity to work directly with composers. Commissions include the work of Dan Forrest, Joan Szymko, Gary Fry, Rollo Dilworth, Andrea Ramsey, Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory, Paul Carey, Bob Chilcott, Malcolm Dalglish, Cynthia Gray, David Kisor, Alan Naplan, Shirley McRae, Nick Page, Jim Papoulis, and Jason Webb.

The advanced choirs have toured Austria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Wales, and the United States, performing alone, with children’s choirs, and in international festivals. In July 2015, CCC earned the great honor of being invited to represent the United States of America at the World Expo in Milan.

Honors and Awards:
Ensemble-in-Residence at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
Winner of the 2015 American Prize in Choral Performance for Youth Choirs
Voted City Beat’s #1 Local Vocal Arts Group 2015
Gold Medal Choir, Youth Choirs of Equal Voices, World Choir Games 2012
Winner of the 2008 Scripps-Corbett Award, Artist Category