Mission and Goals
Curriculum
Con Brio Children's Choir Society
CBCC Handbook
Mission
To provide a unique opportunity for Central Ohio children to have an enriching and joyous choral experience, while enhancing the cultural life of their communities through performance
Goals
To provide a unique opportunity for Central Ohio children to have an enriching and joyous choral experience, while enhancing the cultural life of their communities through performance
Goals
- Develop and encourage life long learning, enjoyment, and love of music.
- Provide a choral music program of the highest standards that develops musicianship through music theory, sight-reading, ear training, vocal training, interpretation & performance.
- Develop and strengthen self-esteem in each chorister.
- Broaden each chorister's view and acceptance of the world's diversity through exposure to music from different cultures and historical periods.
- Develop, encourage, and strengthen community among choristers through singing, making music and interacting socially together.
- Provide opportunities for choristers to give service in the Central Ohio community through music.
Goal 1: Produce a beautiful, supported tone
Goal 4: Demonstrate productive rehearsal habits
Goal 5: Perform varied repertoire
Goal 6: Analyze and evaluate musical examples
Goal 8: Experience how music connects us to history, culture, heritage, & community
- Produce a supported, free vocal tone with the body and breath mechanism working in tandum.
- Exhibit the appropriate body alignment in a singing posture free from tension.
- Inhale quietly through the nose (or open mouth), preparing the throat and shaping the mouth appropriately for the intended vowel for singing.
- Keep the proper vowel shape for the duration of the syllable, modifying in the upper ranges to give more space to closed vowels.
- Show how clear, crisp, quick, and well-articulated consonants help focus and project the singing voice.
- Move smoothly between vocal registers with tension free control of the vocal mechanism
- Perform rhythms accurately; e.g., attacks, releases, accents.
- Hold melodic and harmonic parts successfully in two to four-part a cappella and accompanied choral literature.
- Perform a range of dynamic contrasts and tempo changes with increasing precision and control.
- Match vowel colors and tone qualities within an ensemble.
- Follow the conductor's indications for spontaneous changes and adjustments.
- Demonstrate musical understanding in phrasing.
- Correctly respond to standard notation symbols in choral music.
- Sight-sing melodies fluently in unison and parts on progressive levels of difficulty in any key and time signature.
Goal 4: Demonstrate productive rehearsal habits
- Exhibit productive rehearsal skills; [preparation, conscientious attendance, mutual respect, alertness, participation, timeliness and cooperation, etc]
- Demonstrate knowledge, care, and use of the voice.
- Understand and use technical vocal terminology.
- Assist in the care of supplies, facilities, and equipment.
Goal 5: Perform varied repertoire
- Demonstrate ability to communicate meaning through music to an audience.
- Perform a cappella and accompanied music from a variety of times, cultures, and styles.
- Exhibit impeccable performer and audience etiquette
Goal 6: Analyze and evaluate musical examples
- Summarize, using the vocabulary of music, how performance repertoire is constructed and the musical events/changes as they occur.
- Analyze performance repertoire by comparing and contrasting styles from a variety of cultures and time periods, describing the emotions and thoughts the music communicates and how it does so.
- Make value judgments of the quality of the composition based on effectiveness of musical events, construction, and expressive effects.
- List important criteria for determining the quality of a music performance.
- Using this list, identify, analyze, and evaluate strengths and weaknesses in both recorded and live performances.
- Describe adjustments needed to strengthen individual and ensemble performance.
Goal 8: Experience how music connects us to history, culture, heritage, & community
- Demonstrate how people celebrate, mourn, create, communicate ideas, help others, express feelings, come together, and/or enjoy themselves through music.
- Perform and enjoy music related to various cultures, times, and places.
- Explain what the music experienced above means personally.
The Con Brio Children’s Choir is supported in their endeavors through the hard work and dedication of volunteers in the Con Brio Children’s Choir Society who generously offer their assistance and leadership to the choir. The Con Brio Children’s Choir Society is comprised of parents and community members who share in implementing the vision of this unique choral program. The Society provides enrichment opportunities through it’s fundraising endeavors and leadership to support the choir in it’s varied activities. The Con Brio Children’s Choir Society is an educational, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization.
The Con Brio Children’s Choir Society makes vital contributions by:
Board of Directors, Con Brio Children's Choir Society
Beth Gasior, President
Mindy Marfurt, Secretary
Luis G. Gil, Treasurer
Jill Matthews, Social Committee Chair
Aimee McCann, Grants & Corporate Funding Chair
Trish Perger, Executive Director
Emily DePaul Gil, Artistic Director
The Con Brio Children’s Choir Society makes vital contributions by:
- Helping to implement the choir’s mission and goals.
- Initiating community and corporate fundraising to maintain reasonable tuition prices and supplement finances for performances, financial aid, community outreach and future choir tours.
- Fostering a team spirit as well as working to build the choir’s reputation throughout central Ohio
Board of Directors, Con Brio Children's Choir Society
Beth Gasior, President
Mindy Marfurt, Secretary
Luis G. Gil, Treasurer
Jill Matthews, Social Committee Chair
Aimee McCann, Grants & Corporate Funding Chair
Trish Perger, Executive Director
Emily DePaul Gil, Artistic Director