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Lori Loftus

Director

Lori Loftus

Lori Loftus, the founding artistic director of the Southern California Children's Chorus, has taught the art of music, singing and musicianship to children for over 25 years. Under her leadership, the SCCC's Concert Chorus is rapidly becoming the leading children's chorus in Southern California.

Lori's musical credentials are impeccable. She has a B.M. in Piano Performance and has been the accompanist for many fine choral conductors including David Thorsen, Helmuth Rilling, Howard Swan, Zubin Mehta, John Alexander, Harold Dekker, Joseph Flummerfeld and Carl St. Clair.

Throughout her career, her choirs have sung on professional artists' CD's and have received many awards at festivals and competitions. She has also been asked to provide trained children's voices for Touchstone films, MGM films, music videos, commercials, symphony concerts, operas, television specials for Disney and many musical productions.

Groups directed - Southern California Children's Chorus

Discography

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Southern California Children's Chorus : Simple Gifts

Review: The Concert Chorus of the Southern California Children's Chorus gives a very joyous performance. Simple Gifts contains mostly sacred pieces for treble voices. The chorus sings early pieces by Praetorius and Banchieri as well as 20th century pieces by Zoltan Kodaly. The title piece by Aaron Copland is arranged by director Lori Loftus. Many pieces are a cappella and the others are accompanied by David Lomakin. The pieces chosen have many solos featuring some of the group's talented singers.

Songlist: Jubilate Deo (Adriano Banchieri), Sing dem Herrn (Michael Praetorius), Musika, dein ganz ganz leiblich Kunst (Johann Jeep), Art Thou Troubled? (George Frederic Handel), A Pentatonic Alleluia (Ross Whitney), Psalm 150 (Zoltan Kodaly), Salmo (Ernami Aguiar), Kyrie (James McCray), Psalm 100 (Rene Clausen), Nigra Sum (Pablo Casals), Simple Gifts (Aaron Copland, arr: Lori Loftus), Bay Dooka (Nancy Telfer), S'Vivon (Traditional Hevrew Song, arr: Betty Bertaux), Al Shlosha D'Varim (Allen E. Naplan, arr: David Fischer), Niska Banja (Nick Page), One Hand, One Heart (Leonard Berstein, arr: David Fischer), America, The Beautiful, I'm Goin' Up a Yonder (Walter Hawkins, arr: Martin Sirvatka), I Am Your Child (Marty Panzer & Barry Manilow), Go Where I Send Thee! (A Gospel Spiritual, arr: Paul Caldwell & Sean Ivory), May the Road Rise Up to Meet You

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