Music Celebrations Presents
Windy City Youth Choral Festival
in Chicago, Illinois
a festival for both treble and mixed youth voices
June 26 - 29, 2008
featuring the
Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
in Chicago’s historic
Orchestra Hall
Music Celebrations International is pleased to announce the Windy City Youth Choral Festival, June 26 – 29, 2008. Youth choirs (both treble and mixed youth voices) will be invited and selected based upon recommendation and/or audition tape. The festival’s size limits the number of voices to no more than 350 singers.
The name of Chicago was appropriately drawn from an Indian word meaning "strong" or "great". True to its name, Chicago proudly offers some of the world’s best museums, the highest buildings, the most renowned orchestras and choirs, the world-class Brookfield Zoo, a beautiful lakefront skyline, and of course, Chicago dogs and pizza! With its wonderful musical heritage, Chicago will be the ideal host city to choirs around the country for this magnificent festival experience.
Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
The Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Ravinia Festival, and the Grant Park Symphony at Chicago's new Millenium Park. Its repertoire has included works by Mahler, Stravinsky, Britten, Bernstein, and Orff, and has performed with many eminent conductors including Christoph Eschenbach, Sir Georg Solti, Claudio Abbado, John Nelson, and James Conlon. The young singers have appeared with Canada's Barenaked Ladies, Julia Roberts, Garth Brooks, and Dennis DeYoung; with Chicago area orchestras; featured broadcasts on WFMT in Chicago, five CD recordings; the 1999 and 2003 National and 2002 and 2006 Central Division ACDA conventions; and concert tours of Italy, Australia/New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, and China. The group will travel to South Africa in July of 2007.
