Your Chorfest 2019 Registration includes:
• All Rehearsals with Clinician Bob Chilcott
• Opening Reception
• One Banquet Ticket (non-refundable)
• Access to rehearsal tracks for downloading/streaming
• Concert performance
• $40 BCCF Membership*
Registrants should make their own arrangements for accommodations.
*All Chorfest participants are required to purchase or renew an existing BCCF Individual Membership, included in the registration fee.
BCCF GST# R113813083
Please CLICK HERE to register conveniently and securely online. We process payment via JotForm using PayPal or Credit Card.
ADULT CHOIR FEES
Host Choir/Board of Directors $140.00 (incl. $4.76 GST)
Regular general registration – after March 16 $195.00 (incl. $7.38 GST)
Note: A $50 administration fee will be applied to all refund requests received by April 22, 2019. No refunds will be permitted after that date. However, registrations are transferable. Tax receipts for the registration portion are available upon request.
MEAL OPTIONS
On Site Saturday lunch $21.95 (incl. $2.35 GST) Stemwinder Restaurant (soup, salad, sandwich buffet)
Saturday AGM bag lunch $16.50 (incl. $1.77 GST) (sandwich, fruit, cookie, beverage)
Saturday Banquet ‐ extra ticket $ 55.00 (incl. $5.89 GST)
Sunday lunch $19.95 (incl. $2.14 GST) Conference Centre Lobby (buffet‐style working lunch ‐ build your own sandwich, plus salad, cookie)
NOTE: It is recommended that choristers pre-purchase lunch on Saturday and Sunday, as this is the only meal option within walking distance of the Chorfest location. Lunch will not be available except by pre-purchase.
SHEET MUSIC
Complete package (10 titles) $ 25.00 (incl. $1.19 GST)
BCCF Licensed editions (6 titles only) $12.00 (incl. $.57 GST) Jazz Folk Songs (3); Days That Changed the World (3)
Commercial editions (4 titles only) $13.00 (incl. $.62 GST) Londonderry Air, And So It Goes, Mairi’s Wedding, Simple Gifts
Postage / handling to ship music $ 6.00 (incl. $.29 GST)
Please CLICK HERE to register conveniently and securely online. We process payment via JotForm using PayPal or Credit Card.
For assistance, please contact Tim Plait, Chorfest 2019 Registrar, at 587-784-2914 or chorfest@bcchoralfed.com.
ADULT CHOIR SCHEDULE
All events take place on site at the Kimberley Conference & Athletic Training Centre
FRIDAY MAY 17
5:00 PM Registration (New Dawn Ballroom)
7:00 PM Rehearsal (New Dawn Ballroom)
9:15 PM Reception (New Dawn Ballroom)
SATURDAY MAY 18
8:00 AM Registration (continued)
9:00 AM – 12:00 Rehearsal (New Dawn Ballroom)
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch (Stemwinder Bar & Grill, on site)
12:15 – 1:00 PM BCCF Annual General Meeting
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM Rehearsal (New Dawn Ballroom)
6:30 Cocktails
7:00 Banquet, Raffle draw
SUNDAY MAY 19
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Rehearsal (adult choir)
12:00 – 12:30 PM Rehearsal “And So It Goes” (massed choir of adults, teens, youth)
12:30 PM – Lunch
3:00 PM – Concert (New Dawn Ballroom)
Please CLICK HERE to register conveniently and securely online. We process payment via JotForm using PayPal or Credit Card.
TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS
Group transportation from the Kimberley Airport will be offered by Simply Kimberley, in cooperation with the BC Choral Federation.
We will offer the following options:
– A transfer from the Cranbrook airport to the conference location – $25
– A transfer from the conference location to the Cranbrook airport – $25
ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS
Registrants should make their own arrangements for accommodations. Trickle Creek Lodge in Kimberley BC is offering a limited number of rooms at a special Chorfest 2019 rate. Phone 1-877-282-1200 ext. 2 and ask for the BC Choral Federation rate. Booking must be made before April 17 to receive the discounted rate.
ADULT CHOIR REPERTOIRE
BCCF EDITIONS (Order from BCCF)
- Three excerpts from FIVE DAYS THAT SAVED THE WORLD (price $5.48/copy for three works under one cover including Invention of Penicillin, Abolition of Slavery, First Powered Flight)
- Three excerpts from JAZZ FOLK SONGS FOR CHOIRS (price $5.68/copy for three songs under one cover including Scarborough Fair, Waltzing Matilda, A la Claire fontaine)
COMMERCIAL EDITIONS (Order from music shop)
- AND SO IT GOES (KING’S SINGERS) SATB A CAP (massed number with Teen Choir and BC Youth Choir)
Catalogue Nr. HL 8758501 - GIFT TO BE SIMPLE (KING’S SINGERS) SATBB
Catalogue Nr. HL 8740327 - LONDONDERRY AIR (CHILCOTT) SATB ACCOMPANIED
Catalogue Nr. OUP 9780193432772 - MAIRI’S WEDDING (CHILCOTT) SAB ACCOMPANIED
Catalogue Nr. HL 8740324
Rehearsal tracks are available here, to aid you in learning your music in advance. Please contact the registrar for the password if it was not given to you following the submission of your registration form.
ADULT CHOIR CLINICIAN: BOB CHILCOTT
As a composer, conductor, and singer, Bob Chilcott has enjoyed a lifelong association with choral music, first as a chorister and choral scholar in the choir of King’s College, Cambridge, and for 12 years as a member of the King’s Singers. He became a full-time composer in 1997, embracing his career with energy and commitment, and producing a large catalogue of music for all types of choirs which is published by Oxford University Press.
Music for Christmas forms a considerable part of his most popular repertoire, and works for the season include Wenceslas, My Perfect Stranger, and On Christmas Night. In his carols he sets both new and traditional texts, and writes for mixed-voice and upper-voice choirs.
He has written substantial sacred works including the St John Passion for Wells Cathedral Choir and the Salisbury Vespers. A Little Jazz Mass and the Requiem are amongst a number of works which continue to be performed worldwide. Other works include The Angry Planet, composed for the 2012 BBC Proms, and The Voyagefor Age UK Oxfordshire, which in 2017 was nominated for a Royal Philharmonic Society Award. He has written many pieces for children, including his much-loved song, Can you hear me?, and a significant amount of music for the church. In 2013 he wrote The King shall rejoice for the service in Westminster Abbey to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the coronation of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.
Bob has conducted choirs in more than 30 countries worldwide and has worked with many thousands of amateur singers across the UK in a continuing series of Singing Days. For seven years he was conductor of the Chorus of The Royal College of Music in London and since 2002 he has been Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers.
His music has been widely recorded by leading British choirs and groups including King’s College, Cambridge, Wells Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, The King’s Singers, The Sixteen, Tenebrae, The BBC Singers, The Bach Choir, Commotio, and Ora. In 2016 Bob enjoyed a collaboration with the celebrated singer Katie Melua and the Gori Women’s Choir on the album In Winter, which reached the top 10 in the album charts in the UK and Germany. His first Christmas disc, The Rose in the Middle of Winter, was recorded by Commotio. In 2017 two new discs were released by Commotio and Choralis – All Good Things on Naxos, and In Winter’s Arms on Signum, his first recording collaboration with an American choir. Newer recording projects are with Gloucester Cathedral Choir, Houston Chamber Choir, and Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir.
In 2017 Bob was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of The Royal School of Church Music.