Choirs of America 2022 COA Nationals for Top Choirs NYC + Carnegie Hall
March 31 – April 1, 2022
Principal Conductor: Rollo Dilworth
Composers-in-Residence:
Elaine Hagenberg and Andrea Ramsey
IMPORTANT NOTE: This program is currently at FULL CAPACITY. If possible, please consider joining us for the COA Nationals for Top Choirs a week earlier (Limited Availability | Principal Conductor and Composer-in-Residence: Z. Randall Stroope), or for one of our other festival programs in spring, 2022. Otherwise, please check back with us in late summer / early fall of this year for current available status. You may also email us at info@vocalmusic.org to be put on our “first-come, first-served” wait list for this program. We would definitely love to see (and hear) you with us one way or another in 2022!
The 2022 COA Nationals for Top Choirs combines high magnitude music education experiences with world-class faculty… capped off with an amazing massed / individual choir event in Carnegie Hall.
- Placement into one of two massed choirs (Grandioso, Vivace, or Armonioso) for the concert in Carnegie Hall
- Festival chorus development and preparation assistance (including Part Assistance Tracks)
- Rehearsal notes from COA’s Artistic Director, Christopher Scott Olin, relating to massed choir repertoire assigned by the Principal Conductor, festival logistics, adjudication details, etc.
- Detailed festival schedule provided to each participating choir
- Concert advertising and audience development
- Concert listing with ensemble names in official Carnegie Hall performance calendar and website
- Commemorative Concert Poster with ensemble name listed
- COA student ambassador to act as choir’s guide for the day
- Adjudicated performance in LeFrak Concert Hall (Queens College)
- On-stage performance review (pre-clinic) – time permitting
- Written comments and ratings from all three adjudicators per COA’s criterion-referenced rubric
- Detailed, one-hour clinic with one of COA’s Adjudicator / Clinicians
- Clinicians: Jason Max Ferdinand, Andrea Ramsey, Tesfa Wondemagegnehu
- Scheduled observational opportunity to watch another choir perform
- xChange workshop (sing for other choirs from across the country… and vice-versa)
- Broadway 101 workshop
- Principal Conductor: Rollo Dilworth
- Composer-in-Residence: Elaine Hagenberg and Andrea Ramsey
- One full rehearsal for your assigned massed choir (Grandioso, Vivace, or Armonioso) led by Rollo Dilworth
- Massed choir rehearsal venue in NYC
- Professional collaborative pianist, and supporting instrumentalist (per repertoire), for rehearsal and concert
- Cue-to-cue walk-through, soundcheck, and finale rehearsal in Carnegie Hall
- Professional production team dedicated to the performance (stage crew, house management, ushers, box office personnel, etc.)
- Official PlayBill concert program with group bio and singer names
- Official concert photographer
- Dedicated house seats to experience other concert parts
- Massed and individual choir concert performance in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium
- Spotlight, individual choir performance opportunity during concert in Carnegie Hall (for choirs bringing 45 or more singers)
- All choir world-premiere finale performance of newly commissioned piece from COA’s Composers-in-Residence: Elaine Hagenberg and Andrea Ramsey
- One archival concert DVD recording of Carnegie Hall concert
- Professional audio recording of adjudicated performance
- xChange – A Meeting of Voices (during which choirs from across the country interact with and sing for each other)
- Broadway 101 workshop (join our Broadway faculty for an engaging, energetic look at the world of musical theater)
Festival Inclusions (pre-trip):
Festival Inclusions (March 31, 2022):
Festival Inclusions (April 1, 2022):
Festival Inclusions (post-trip):
Festival Rate:
♬ Performer Rate: $379.00 per person ♬ Directors and Chaperones (up to 1 per 10): FreeFor a Complete Tour Package:
♬ Please contact our sister company, Harmony Tours (www.Harmony-Tours.com)Optional Festival Add-Ons:
♬ Event t-shirt customized with ensemble name: $26.00 each (www.choralgear.com)♬ Event hoodie customized with ensemble name: $45.00 each (www.choralgear.com)
♬ Concert photos (available post-concert for purchase online): Price Varies (www.groupphotos.com)
Program Summary
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Today, each participating choral program will benefit from an adjudicated performance of their own repertoire, followed by an engaging, one-hour clinic with one of COA’s Clinicians. Everyone will also enjoy a scheduled observational opportunity (watching another choir perform), along with engaging workshops for ALL participants. Scheduled workshops include:Friday, April 1, 2022
The COA National’s Principal Conductor, Rollo Dilworth, takes over today for fun and educational massed choir rehearsals. Following rehearsals, all participating choirs will perform during an awe inspiring prism concert in world-famous Stern Auditorium in Carnegie Hall. The concert will open with a world-premiere tutti performance of a new work by composer Andrea Ramsey with Andrea conducting! During the concert, choral programs bringing 45 or more singers will have the opportunity for a “spotlight performance” on their own… and ALL participants will perform as one of two massed choirs. The concert wraps with an amazing all-choir world premiere finale written (and accompanied) by Elaine Hagenberg especially for this event. It will be spectacular, once-in-a-lifetime experience!“I’d say our experience with Choirs of America was… perfect! Thank you again for an amazing Carnegie Hall weekend and treating the Valencia Choir students like VIPs! On the lookout for your future dates. We’re in!”
– Christine Tavares-Mocha, Choir Director, Valencia High School
