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
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: TBA
- 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 Only Rate (no hotel):
♬ Performer Rate: $379.00 per person ♬ Directors and Chaperones (up to 1 per 10): FreeDiscount Package: 3 Nights Hotel +
Festival Participation
♬ $648.00 per person – 3 nights lodging in Midtown Manhattan at quad occupancy (Hilton, Sheraton, or similar) + Festival Participation
♬ $548.00 per person – 3 nights lodging in Long Island City at quad occupancy (Fairfield Inn, Wingate by Wyndham, or similar) + Festival Participation
* Please contact us for inclusive pricing for 4 or 5 nights, and/or for triple, double, and single occupancy rates.
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)