Dear BCCF members:
In the face of the escalating uncertainty and restrictions imposed on us all by the current pandemic, the BCCF is announcing with deep regret the cancellation of BCCF CHORFEST 2020, BC YOUTH CHOIR 2020 and CHILDREN’S CHORFEST 2020 originally scheduled for May 29-31 in Fort Langley and Abbotsford. This most regrettable cancellation is unprecedented — a move for unprecedented times. Heartfelt thanks are extended to our host committee from the Langley Community Chorus and Valley Festival Singers. The committee’s wonderful “Be The River” theme to have been realized in superior Fraser Valley venues deserves to be revisited in the future! Thanks, too, to clinicians Julia Davids, Jim Sparks, and Sandra Meister and to our cohorts who worked on the musical and organizational aspects of these programs. Your work will be put on ice for a future date, as well.
Individuals who have already registered may receive a refund of registration fees, concert and meal tickets. Charitable tax receipts for all or part of your costs, alternatively, will be issued to those registrants who choose to make a donation instead. Please note that BCCF individual membership fees of $40, which are used to sustain the organization, are non-refundable. Thank you for your continued involvement and commitment to the BC Choral Federation and to the choral art. Our administrator and registrar will be in contact in the coming days. Separate notices about the Annual General Meeting and BCCF Raffle will also follow soon.
Looking forward, please mark your calendars for BCCF CHORFEST 2021 in Ashcroft, May 21-23, 2021. We look forward to singing together again!
Willi Zwozdesky
Executive Director – BC Choral Federation
BCCF CHILDREN’S CHORFEST 2020
Abbotsford, May 29, 30, 31
We are excited to welcome you to BCCF Children’s Chorfest 2020 with conductor Sandra Meister! Our fee of $75 per singer includes:
• all rehearsals & performance
• music pack
• snacks and pizza for lunch on Saturday
• 1 concert ticket for an adult to accompany their child to the concert
Click here for individual registration using our secure online form.
Children are also encouraged to register as groups, either as a full classroom or community choir or as a smaller sub-section thereof – and must come with their own chaperones. Click here for our group form.
A print pamphlet with more information can be found here, featuring all of the information on this webpage – great for sharing with parents.
For more information, please contact Heather Beckett.
2020 BCCF CHILDREN’S CHORFEST SCHEDULE*
Friday – venue TBA (Abbotsford)
4:00 – 4:30: Registration and check in
4:30 – 6:00: Introductions and rehearsal #1
6:00 – 6:45: Meal break (singers’ own food)
6:45 – 8:30: PM rehearsal #2
8:30 PM: Check out
Saturday – venue TBA (Abbotsford)
9:30 – 10:30 AM: Rehearsal #3
10:30 – 10:45 AM: Snack break (included)
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM: Rehearsal #4
12:00 – 12:45 PM: Pizza Lunch (included)
12:45 – 2:00 PM: Rehearsal #5
2:00 – 3:00 PM: Group activity, workshop
3:00 – 3:30 PM: Snack break (included)
3:30 – 4:45 PM; Rehearsal #6
Sunday – venue TBA & Abbotsford Pentecostal Assembly
10:00 – 12:00 PM: Rehearsal #7
Lunch (singers’ own food) & move to concert venue
TBC 1:30 – 2:30 PM: Massed choir rehearsal Abbotsford Pentecostal Assembly
3:00 PM: Concert (1 adult ticket included in each child’s registration)
*subject to change
REPERTOIRE
Commercial Editions
EVERY TEARDROP IS A WATERFALL (COLDPLAY/BRUMFIELD) 2 PT ACCOMPANIED
Catalogue Nr 292521 Hal Leonard
FLOATING UPSTREAM (HATFIELD) 2 PT ACCOMPANIED
Catalogue Nr 48004715 Boosey & Hawkes
DONKEY RIDING (BELL) 2 PT ACCOMPANIED
Catalogue Nr 9780193805248 Oxford University Press
On-line Editions
HEART OF THE WATER SONG (Cree/Dene chant) music by Sherryl Sewepegaham
On-line download National Arts Centre publication
All My Relations: Celebrating Canada’s Indigenous Peoples
Music Alive Program TEACHER GUIDE pp 12 & 13
WATER DANCE from Midnight Sun Songs – Jeffrey Ryan- text/poetry by school kids in the Northwest Territories
On-line download from composer’s website
2020 CHILDREN’S CHORFEST CLINICIAN – Sandra Meister
For more than three decades, Sandra Meister has been a leader in music education in British Columbia.
During her twenty years as director of Die Meistersinger Children’s Choir, Sandra and the choristers served as musical ambassadors at festivals and conferences in North America and Europe. A highlight of the Meistersinger years was singing for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II in honour of the opening of the University of Northern British Columbia.
Sandra’s work has been acknowledged with many awards including the Governor General’s Medal for outstanding service to arts and culture in Canada, the British Columbia Music Educators Association Professional Educator Award, and the British Columbia Choral Federation’s Willan Award.
Sandra has enjoyed providing choral leadership in many communities in North America and abroad (Germany, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and China) as a guest conductor, facilitator, and adjudicator.
Sandra has served as music teacher, district curriculum co-ordinator and principal in fourteen schools in three school districts. In June of 2018, Sandra retired from being a School Principal in Coquitlam and is now devoting her life to doing what she loves most – sharing the choral art.