Grades 2-12
Your child will have the opportunity to be part of a community of children who are all there for the same reason! To SING!
The children will sing music from a number of styles (pop, showtunes, classical, Canadian, Jazz) all in an effort to help them become more confident and independent young people.
Being part of a choir has numerous mental, physical and emotional benefits for children and adults alike. Study after study has proven the strong benefits of being in a choir.
Groups will be split out during rehearsal to accommodate different abilities. We will be using sheet music, and that is part of the learning experience.
The parent and child MUST make a weekly rehearsal commitment.
For your convenience, instead of face to face auditions please send us a video of your child singing for their audition. Any style, any background, so long as we can hear their voice. Please make this a new video, not something previously recorded and no longer than 1 minute. It can be simply recorded on a cellphone and sent to us. expressu123@gmail.com **if technology baffles you, just ask your child(ren), they'll be able to help you, and if things still aren't cooperating give us a call!
We will do two concerts in the year.
January 28th & May 26th
Tuesdays
1st session - September 17th-January 28th (skipping December 17th, 24th, 31st)
2nd session - February 4th - May 26th (skipping March 10th)
4:00pm-5:30pm
Location: TBD
$150/child
*Scholarships may become available, please do not let finances be a reason not to join us*
The children will sing music from a number of styles (pop, showtunes, classical, Canadian, Jazz) all in an effort to help them become more confident and independent young people.
Being part of a choir has numerous mental, physical and emotional benefits for children and adults alike. Study after study has proven the strong benefits of being in a choir.
Groups will be split out during rehearsal to accommodate different abilities. We will be using sheet music, and that is part of the learning experience.
The parent and child MUST make a weekly rehearsal commitment.
For your convenience, instead of face to face auditions please send us a video of your child singing for their audition. Any style, any background, so long as we can hear their voice. Please make this a new video, not something previously recorded and no longer than 1 minute. It can be simply recorded on a cellphone and sent to us. expressu123@gmail.com **if technology baffles you, just ask your child(ren), they'll be able to help you, and if things still aren't cooperating give us a call!
We will do two concerts in the year.
January 28th & May 26th
Tuesdays
1st session - September 17th-January 28th (skipping December 17th, 24th, 31st)
2nd session - February 4th - May 26th (skipping March 10th)
4:00pm-5:30pm
Location: TBD
$150/child
*Scholarships may become available, please do not let finances be a reason not to join us*
Our Director
Julia Johnston
Julia is a singer, performer and music theatre loving, individual. Trained at Randolph College for the Performing Arts she is known as a "triple threat performer". She loves to share her knowledge with children who strive to improve their confidence levels onstage and offstage. Julia is a professional singer and has sung in churches, concert halls and her personal favourite, around a campfire. She runs three women’s choirs in Orillia, Barrie and Midland known as “Shout Sister” and has taught children and adults both in group lessons and privately for almost 15 years. Julia has sung under the baton of many great music directors including Dr. Canon Giles Bryant, Syd Birrell, Christine Slevan, Jeffrey Huard, Jeannie Wyse, Mitchell Pady and Blair Bailey. Her recently opened performing arts school in Orillia, "Express Yourself", has been a constant fulfillment of encouragement that the arts community is important to the Orillia and surrounding communities, and worth fighting for. If you recognize Julia, it may be because you saw St Paul's Centre's 2019 production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, of which Julia played one of the lead roles as Narrator. It brings her joy to give a boost to the art's community by putting a children's choir together. Julia is thrilled to share her knowledge of choral singing and music with the Orillia Community Children's Choir.