Youth Chorus

Based in Bend, OR

YCCO provides a special learning environment designed to be a rich and rewarding musical experience for each student. Choristers study and perform a variety of music from different genres including classical, folk, modern, pop, and indie, and from a range of sacred and secular music traditions. Repertoire is selected to give each chorister a broad music education that includes learning about other peoples and cultures. It is essential that all singers be willing to sing all repertoires.

Singing is the major focus of the musical experience in YCCO. It is a powerfully personal means of musical expression. We hope this experience will form the foundation of a life-long relationship with music for the singers and their families.

Children are taught to use their vocal instruments through exercises in posture, breathing, and tone production. The body is the instrument in singing, so musical relationships are internally experienced and are likely to be "felt" and heard. The abilities to hear, conceptualize and perceive music, and then respond musically develops naturally from the human voice. Singing skill and musical understanding are essential components of the creative process and fundamental to music education. Musical re-creation through vocal performance is a way of experiencing and expressing music unlike any other activity.

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