FEAST OF CAROLS

Featuring guest choirs from Anderson High School, Dixie Heights High School, Kings High School and Mason High School

Joe Miller, L. Brett Scott, Reina Dickey, Isiah Maxey, Gregory Miller, Matthew Swope, Matthew Lee, Robyn Lana, Daniel Parsley, Sandra Thornton and Heather Vest, conductors

Faith Diehl, Stacy Haney, Jason McKee and Hope Milthaler, guest conductors 

Audience sing-along carols are available below.

CCM's Choral Studies Program is internationally recognized for more than 50 years of excellence in training conductors for successful, lifelong careers in the choral arts. Our choral ensembles are proud to offer transformative musical experiences for singers and audiences. CCM has delighted multiple generations of music lovers with the concerts presented by its five choral ensembles: the 32-voice Chamber Choir, 45-voice Chorale, 30-voice Chamber Singers, Vox Antiqua — a select vocal/instrumental ensemble dedicated to Medieval, Renaissance and early Baroque music — and 100-voice UC Men's and UC Women's Choruses. Performances range from acclaimed staged productions presented in collaboration with CCM’s Opera Department to presentations of contemporary works like David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion and Tan Dun’s Water Passion after St. Matthew.

Ensemble-in-Residence of CCM Preparatory and Community Engagement. The Cincinnati Youth Choir is an educationally based choral ensemble program. Participants learn healthy vocal technique, sight-reading, music history and music theory while experiencing performance excellence using the philosophies and techniques of Carl Orff, Zoltan Kodaly, Jacques Dalcroze and Jerome Brunner.

The learning environment is creative, explorative and fun. The children form lasting relationships with children outside of their community and develop a lifelong appreciation of music.

CYC members have toured Italy, Japan, China, Scandinavia, England, Ireland, Wales, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Canada, and the United States. Founded in 1993, as the Cincinnati Children’s Choir, the organization updated its name to the Cincinnati Youth Choir in 2018 to better represent the age range of our member base.

CYC has recently received wide acclaim by winning the following awards:

• 2018 Chorus America Education and Community Engagement Award
• 2016 Chorus America ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming
• 2015 American Prize in Choral
Performance for Youth Choirs
• CityBeat’s Best of 2015 & 2017 Reader Picks for Best Local Vocal Arts Group
• Gold Medal Choir, Youth Choirs of Equal Voices, World Choir Games 2012
• Winner of the 2008 Scripps-Corbett Award, Artist Category

Stacy Haney, director

The Anderson High School Singers and Chamber Choir are select ensembles of mainly upper classmen. Under the direction of Stacy Haney, Director of the Anderson Vocal Arts, Singers have consistently received superior ratings at OMEA Adjudicated Events performing literature of all genres in class AA. We would like to thank Dr. Joe Miller, music faculty, and CCM for the distinct honor of participating in this year's Feast of Carols.

Faith Diehl, director

Dixie Heights High School is located in the Edgewood neighborhood of northern Kentucky. The Dixie Heights Chamber Choir, directed by Faith Diehl, is the top, auditioned-based choral ensemble. It is a mixed voice ensemble, made up of the most elite singers in our school. Students in this ensemble are heavily involved in musical extracurriculars such as school productions, professional and community theater, Governor's School of the Arts and more. Chamber Choir is honored to be asked to perform on Feast of Carols and thankful for the opportunity to sing with CCM.

Hope Milthaler, director

We, the Kings High School Chamber Choir, are a family of passionate musicians whose mission is to facilitate deep connections with the world of music outside our classroom. We study, we discuss, we ask, and we listen. We view performance as an opportunity not just to sing but to shorten the perceived distance between composers, collaborative musicians, our listeners, and each other. We believe that choir is a testament to the universality of the human experience, and that music is a gateway of hope through which a more unified people can emerge. We are grateful to the Kings Local School District for its relentless support of our program and are especially grateful that we are all once again making music together.

Jason McKee, director

The Honors Concert Choir is the top auditioned ensemble at William Mason High School. The choir has enjoyed collaborating with local universities across the region as well as performing for organizations throughout the Mason community. They consistently receive Superior ratings at OMEA district and state adjudicated events, and they were one of twelve invited choral ensembles from across the United States to perform at the 2019 Music for All National Choir Festival in Indianapolis, Indiana. This year the Honors Concert Choir will travel to New York City to perform at Carnegie Hall as part of a festival under the direction of Dr. Z. Randall Stroope.

We will continue to announce our 2021-22 schedule of public performances in two-month intervals — audiences will learn more about our programming for November and December events in October! Performance information and updates will be shared on the CCM website and in our Next OnStage e-newsletter.

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