Ages 8 -17
Singers 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.
Our concert will be May 27th at 6:30 pm
Mondays
2nd session - February 6, 13, 27, March 6, 20, 27, April 3, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22.
@ 5:30pm-6:30pm
Location: Orillia Music Centre @ St. Paul's Centre, 62 Peter Street North
$165/child -new registrations
$150/child -returning singers
Cash, cheque (made out to Express Yourself performing Arts)
We apologize but no refunds are being offered. We are a small community-based group. Instead, we offer a chance for your child to come for the FIRST rehearsal of choir for FREE. Just to make sure they enjoy the experience.
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!
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.
Our concert will be May 27th at 6:30 pm
Mondays
2nd session - February 6, 13, 27, March 6, 20, 27, April 3, 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22.
@ 5:30pm-6:30pm
Location: Orillia Music Centre @ St. Paul's Centre, 62 Peter Street North
$165/child -new registrations
$150/child -returning singers
Cash, cheque (made out to Express Yourself performing Arts)
We apologize but no refunds are being offered. We are a small community-based group. Instead, we offer a chance for your child to come for the FIRST rehearsal of choir for FREE. Just to make sure they enjoy the experience.
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!
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 "SING-IT!" through Express Yourself in Orillia, Barrie and Midland, and has taught children and adults both in group lessons and privately for almost 10+ 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 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.
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 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.