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Do you have a choir?
Please have your choir join us for the choir's fourth annual choir festival set for Sunday, April 18th! The event starts at 3:00pm to fine tune preselected choral selections. Guest conductor Greg Gilpin. The festival concert will be at 6:30pm.
Participating choirs can sing any song or anthem of your choice. Please keep in mind that individual choir selections is not a competition, but just for showcase and fun! You don't have to participate in this portion of the program.
All participating choirs will sing music selected for the festival. This year's songs are: Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah, It Is Well With My Soul, and the Greg Gilpin Favorite: Why We Sing among others.
There is a registration fee of $50.00 for each participating choir. Scholarships are available for any choir not able to pay the registration fee. Scholarships are also available to any choir that cannot afford music.
Pine Lake Music has agreed to a 15% discount for any music purchased for the festival.
All high school and adult choirs are able to participate.
For more information, or to register, please contact Leann Deller.
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
Time:
6:30pm
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Announcing Guest Conductor:
Greg Gilpin
Greg Gilpin is a graduate of Northwest Missouri State University with a Bachelors Degree in Vocal Music Education, K-12. He is a well known, award-winning conductor and choral composer.
His projects include commercial jingles, CD projects, Broadway and Disney.
He has worked with Ray Boltz, Bill and Gloria Gaither, Sandi Patty, David Clydesdale as well as principle pops conductor, Jack Everly and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
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You are Invited to the
Fourth Annual Choir Festival!
Join The PCM Phoenix Community Choir:
Sounds of the Southwest Singers
Sunday, April 18, 2010
6:30 pm
Experience the glory of music!
This is a Free Event!
For more information please call 602.353.9900
The Phoenix Conservatory of Music's Adult Community Choir: Sounds of the Southwest Singers serves the Northwest Valley.
Members of the choir have sung at several prestigious venues recently, including Carnegie Hall! This summer they will be touring Germany and Austria. They have also been invited to sing at New York City's Lincoln Center in 2011.
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Become a member of PCM'sSounds of the Southwest SingersPractices are held every Tuesday from
7:00-9:00pm at The Foothills Christian Church at 3951 West Happy Valley Road.
Don't be shy! Come join today! All different types of music selections are sung in performances including secular, sacred, popular, jazz and patriotic. Soloists and small ensembles within the larger choir are more than welcome! You don't have to be a professional musician, just someone who loves to sing! It doesn't cost a thing other than your time and commitment to doing something really fun with a lot of great people!
Want to donate to the choir?
PCM's Sounds of the Southwest Singers is looking for:
- A Piano Tuning
- A portable electronic piano with amplifier
- A digital video recorder
- A digital MP3 recorder
- Funds to purchase music
- A Practice and Performance Space on Sunday, April 18th from 12:00-9:00pm. Preferably with an organ for seating for 300-400 attendees in central Phoenix.
- An accompanist (or the funds to pay one!)
Meet The Director: Matt Deller
Matt Deller graduated from Central Washington University with a BA degree in communications and music performance. He has played the timpani/percussion/melodic percussion in multiple orchestral and band settings, and played the piano/keyboard with various jazz ensembles. His real passion for choral music began in 1994 when he volunteered as his church choir director in Washington State.
Ten years ago he and his family moved to Arizona, he was the choir director at a local church, in Glendale. When he started leading the group in 2002 there were only 15 people in the volunteer choir, at the end of his leadership in January, 2010 there were over 65 in attendance. This past June, 44 members of the choir traveled to New York to perform at Carnegie Hall in celebration of the 70th Anniversary Gala of music publishing giant Shawnee Press.
Matt has also played with his church praise team band, and still works with the church's youth community concert band. He also accompanies soloists and musicians on the keyboard.
Matt is currently pursuing his musical path with a volunteer community choir to serve throughout the Northwest Valley communities. There is a lot of local talent out there needing a venue to musically express them. Opportunities for this choir include a European tour for this coming summer where limited spaces are still available to Germany and Austria and a Lincoln Center performance in NYC in 2011.
Matt believes music isn't just notes on the page, but one truly experiences it through emotion and feeling from the heart. As you watch him direct you can see and feel the passion he brings to the music. The emotional values are evident to the performer and the listener under his direction. | |
