Choral Group Submission Form

The ACC program sponsors the Midwest Children's Choir Festival (MCCF), which was created to provide the opportunity for select young singers in Iowa to hear and perform with nationally and internationally recognized choirs and performers. Early festivals featured choirs from Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the U.S. Currently, the festival features two Midwest children's choirs and includes select singers from Iowa, who form a 400-voice mass choir. Simon Estes has performed with the MCCF Mass Choir three times. The 2007 MCCF featured Bob Chilcott as composer and guest conductor, who Bob Chilcott conducted his new work "All things pass" commissioned by ACC and written for the festival. The 2009 MCCF will feature Rene Clausen as composer and guest conductor. The Concert Choir is the host of MCCF.

ACC created the Celebrate Singing Choral Festival (CSCF) in 2008. This new festival provides the opportunity for school and community choirs to hear and perform with each other. The Chorale who conducts annual tours to schools in central Iowa and has participated in children's choir festivals in Des Moines and Carroll, Iowa, is the host of CSCF.

All choirs in the ACC program have collaborated with many arts organizations in central Iowa including: Ames Chamber Artists, Ames Children's Theater, Central Iowa Symphony and the ISU Opera Theater.