Choralfest North 2018

A flagship program of Choir Alberta, Choralfest is Alberta’s non-competitive festival for choirs. In addition to performance and workshop experiences for choirs, the festival offers professional development opportunities for conductors and provides participants with valuable post-festival tools for learning. The goal of the festival is to facilitate the growth and development of each choir in a positive, creative, and educationally-focused environment. 

Choirs of all ages, types, and levels of experience attend Choralfest. These include:

• Children’s choirs
• Elementary school choirs
• Middle school and junior high school choirs
• Youth choirs
• High school choirs
• Adult community choirs
• Vocal jazz ensembles
• Church choirs
• Senior’s choirs
• A cappella groups

Auditioned and non-auditioned choirs are welcome.

FESTIVAL MODEL

Choralfest operates using a "pod" system. Here's how it works:

• Each choir in a pod will arrive at the same time for a 15 minute warm up in 3 separate spaces.
• Following the warm up, choirs will gather in the sanctuary to perform a set of music up to 20 minutes in length for each other, the evaluators, and the general public.
• Once all 3 choirs have performed, each choir will move to their clinic location and will receive two 20 minute clinics from 2 of the festival evaluators.
• We will still provide video recordings of your performance.

The total time it takes for each choir to make their way through the festival is 1 hour 55 minutes.