“My
goal is to connect every singer to a higher awareness through music.
To touch lives, so that each child is enriched in a way they can
take back to their families and their communities. We want each
singer to apply discipline to their work that makes them feel good
about their accomplishments.” —Mia Hall Savage,
Director, Pacific Youth Choir
In
March 2009, the American Choral Directors
Association celebrated
50 years as the leading voice of the U.S.
choral music community
at its national convention. A select few of the country’s
finest choirs – selected by blind audition – were
invited to sing at this event. The Coro Pacifica chorus of Pacific
Youth
Choir was one of them, the only youth choir from the Pacific Northwest
to receive this significant honor.
We’ve
been working with the managing director of PYC for two seasons
now, helping the 6-year
organization develop and implement
its first organized communications and fundraising program.
Late in 2008, over the span of about a month, we created materials
and grants that raised $30,000 in contributed funds, allowing
more
than 60 singers plus artistic and support staff and chaperones
to perform
at the ACDA
convention.
Pacific
Youth Choir is a community of eight choruses of singers
age 5 through 19 who perform a broad range of choral literature
at the
highest level of musicianship.
Since
its first season in 2003, PYC choirs have been in demand locally,
regionally,
and nationally. Collaborations with the Oregon
Symphony include performances of Carmina Burana,
The Lord of the Rings, On The Transmigration of Souls by
John Adams and the kids concert series. PYC
has also sung with the Portland Chamber Orchestra, Oregon Ballet
Theatre, White Bird Dance, Portland Youth Philharmonic, the Trinity
Cathedral Concert Series, Aurora Women’s
Chorus, and the University of Oregon composer series.
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