Fourteen members of the Concord Community Music School’s Purple Finches Youth Chorus recently had a chance to sing on the national stage, as performers in the Organization of American Kodaly Educators (OAKE) National Conference Choirs.
During their March trip to this year’s conference in Oklahoma City, students had the opportunity to connect with fellow highly motivated youth vocalists and to learn and perform under the direction of internationally renowned conductors. After several days of intensive rehearsals, the students performed an evening concert for conference attendees.
The Purple Finches Youth Chorus is open to kids in grades K-8. Members learn musical literacy through regular rhythm, solfege and ear-training, based on Kodaly methods. The chorus performs frequently at the music school and for community-wide events.
Students Tessa Foley, Anya Kendziora, Emma Richardson and Madeline Short (all from Concord), and Sophia Estes, Sophia Isaak, Katherine Mitchell, Eowyn Lehrhaupt, Madeline Decker, Harriet Pearce, Anne Pearce, Tess Parrott, and Chani Parrott performed in the finale concert at the conference, a four-day event that brings together teachers, conductors and clinicians from across the country.
For more information, visit ccmusicschool.org.
Liza Poinier
