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For twenty-four years of music making with young voices, the mission of The Frederick Children's Chorus has been to offer each participant an opportunity to learn to love and experience songs that would probably never make it in the mass market of radio, TV, and the recording industry.  The music the chorus sings has bones and flesh.  It carries richly composed texts to new heights.  Participants sing of great ideas and amazing adventures.  They sing songs of love, of patriotism, of religious ideas and emotions yet to be experienced. 

The Frederick Children's Chorus was founded in 1985.  It offers to all children in the community an opportunity to learn to sing well, become skilled readers of musical notation, and study selections of music from many genres.  We provide singers with performance experience and rehearsal practices to serve them for a lifetime. 

Members of the choruses are often invited to perform for local and regional events.  The chorus has performed with the Baltimore Symphony, as well as with local choruses, opera companies and orchestras. The Concert Chorus and Chamber Singers have performed in ACDA conferences and adjudicated festivals, where they have consistently received superior ratings. 

As our 2008-2009 season comes to a close, we reflect on the wonderful experiences we were able to offer our singers this year.  In December, our Chamber Singers performed in our 14th annual Messiah Sing-Along at the Weinberg Center with regional vocalists and instrumentalists.  In February, our chorus joined forces with our friends at the Glory Star Children’s Chorus from Rockville, Maryland to attend an all-day Jazz and Cultural Music Festival.  Our Chamber Singers had the opportunity to work with regional jazz recording artist and Towson University Jazz Professor, Jeremy Scott Ragsdale.  Our Concert Chorus had the pleasure of working with regionally renowned conductor of the DC group Coral Cantigas, Diana Saez.  In a separate February event, the Concert Chorus and Chamber Singers joined the Frederick Chorale to perform a concert of music by nationally renowned composers Gwyneth Walker and Morten Lauridsen. 

But mostly, we just enjoy making music together every week.  We design our program for fun, learning, and relationship building.  Our members make friends for life and they often return and visit after they've graduated and gone on to be college students. 

We hope you can join us for our last performance of this year, our Spring Concert on May 2nd.  Please visit our performance calendar for more information.  If you have a question not answered on our site, please contact us through the “contact us” feature on this site or by email at officemanager@fredcc.org.  Emails are checked daily.