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Crescent City Choral
Festival June 21-27, 2017
Please join us for Cantabile’s
Summer Tour to New Orleans
Cantabile’s Summer Tour to the
Crescent City Choral Festival
June 21-27, 2017
Why Come on Tour with Cantabile
We invite you to join us as our singers enjoy the 18th annual Crescent City Choral Festival with
New Orleans Children’s Chorus. Cantabile will collaborate with children’s choirs from across the
United States to sing a complex and rewarding repertoire of music, and work with New Orleans
conductor Cheryl Dupont, and guest conductor and British composer, Bob Chilcott. The tour
culminates in a celebration concert in historic St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square. This is an
opportunity for students to begin to understand touring and the special preparation required to
be a performer on the world’s stages. This 6-day tour offers the chance for singers to make new
friends, see a vibrant cultural city and learn how to travel, sing, tour and be a professional
musician.
ABOUT BOB CHILCOTT
Festival Conductor
Bob Chilcott, described by British newspaper, The
Observer, as “a contemporary hero of British Choral
Music”, has become one of the most widely
performed composers of choral music in the world.
He has a large catalogue of works published by Oxford University Press which reflects his wide
taste in music styles and his commitment to writing music that is both singable and
communicative.
From his catalogue of larger works, Salisbury Vespers, written in 2009, was first performed by
over 600 singers and players in Salisbury Cathedral. His Requiem, of 2010 has now been
performed in sixteen countries, and his large-scale cantata, The Angry Planet, was premièred
in the 2012 BBC Proms by 550 adult and young singers. In March 2013, his St John Passion was
premièred in Wells Cathedral by the Cathedral Choir conducted by Matthew Owens. Most
recently he wrote The King Shall Rejoice for the service at Westminster Abbey to celebrate the
60th Anniversary of the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Of his smaller works, A Little Jazz Mass, commissioned by the New Orleans Children’ Chorus
for the Crescent City Choral Festival remains a favorite with choirs around the world, as do
many of his pieces for children’s choir, including the piece with sign language, Can you hear
me? Chilcott is a frequent Guest Artist at the Crescent City Choral Festival and has written
these other works for the Festival: Be Simple Little Children, Happy Land, This Day, I Lift My
Eyes, Jazz Songs of Innocence, and My Dancing Day.
Between 1997 and 2004 he was conductor of the chorus of The Royal College of Music in
London and since 2002 he has been Principal Guest Conductor of The BBC Singers. He has
been privileged to conduct many choirs in some 30 countries over the last ten years. Over the
coming eighteen months he will conduct in Russia, Canada, the USA, Japan, Czech Republic,
Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway.
There are four recordings of his music on the Signum label performed by The BBC Singers, The
King’s Singers, The Sirens, and The NFL Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir. His Requiem is recorded
on the Hyperion label by the Choir of Wells Cathedral, who will also record his St John Passion
in 2014. In 2013 an album of his music was released on the Naxos label by The Wellensian
Consort and in the autumn of the same year Naxos released a recording of his Christmas
music sung by the chamber choir Commotio. His music has been recorded by many other
choirs and groups including Tenebrae, The Cambridge Singers, The Choir of King’s College,
Cambridge and The Choir of Westminster Abbey.
ABOUT CHERYL DUPONT
Cheryl Dupont is the Artistic Director of the New Orleans
Children’s Chorus and Youth Chorale. Although she is known
throughout the United States for her work with children’s
choirs, Cheryl is also experienced at working with mixed choirs
on the high school, college and adult levels. She has many years
of experience as a high school choral director, and served as
Interim Director of Choral Activities at the University of New
Orleans for the 1999-2000 academic year. Mrs. Dupont has also
served as an Instructor of Voice at the University of New
Orleans, Womens’ Chorus Director at Loyola University of the
South, and as Associate Conductor of the Symphony Chorus of New Orleans. Other experience
includes teaching and conducting at an elementary level and in churches. Her choirs have won
numerous awards in music festivals throughout the South, and have appeared at state as well
as regional conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and the national
convention of the Organization of American Kodaly Educators.
Mrs. Dupont is in demand as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator. She has conducted
numerous all-state choirs throughout the country, and frequently conducts honor choirs for
children, middle school, junior high and high school. She holds the Bachelor of Music
Education degree in Piano and Voice and the Master of Music Education degree in Conducting
Performance, both from Loyola University of the South, and the Artist-Teacher Diploma from
the Choral Music Experience Institute. She is a Master Teacher for the Choral Music
Experience Institute, working in the field of advanced training of choral teacher/conductors.
For fifteen years Cheryl has directed CME courses in South Carolina, North Carolina and
Kansas, and served as a Teaching Associate at CME Institutes in the US, England, Sweden,
Scotland, Ireland and Wales. In addition, she is the Artistic Director and Conductor of the
Crescent City Choral Festival, an annual choral festival for children throughout the United
States, which is in its 18th successful year. In 2006 she directed the Children’s Honor Chorus at
the Southern regional convention of the America Choral Directors Association and in March of
2010, she conducted the Youth Treble Honor Choir at Western Division ACDA.
Mrs. Dupont has assumed many leadership roles on the district level of the Louisiana Music
Educators Association. An active member of the American Choral Directors Association, she
currently serves as the National Repertoire and Standards Chairperson for Children and
Community Youth, having previously served as Southern Division Chair. She is the founder and
chairperson of the Louisiana ACDA Children’s All-State Chorus and served two terms as
president of the Association for Choral Music Education.
JACE WITTIG
Cantabile Choir Tour Conductor Young Men’s Division Director, Bravi and Aria Conductor Voice Master Class Clinician
Baritone, clinician, and educator Jace Wittig is excited to join the artistic
faculty of Cantabile Youth Singers for the upcoming season as Director of the
Young Men's Division and as a Vocal Master Class clinician. A native of
Indianapolis, he began his musical training as a young singer with the Indianapolis Children's Choir under
the direction of Henry Leck, performing and touring often in North America and Europe. He received his
Bachelors of Music degree in Vocal Performance at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, studying
voice with Dr. Craig Priebe and piano with Dr. Jim Helton. Mr. Wittig sang baritone with the Grammy-
award winning men’s choir Chanticleer for five seasons and served as the Interim Music Director from
2011 to 2014, during which time Chanticleer collaborated frequently with Maestra Elena Sharkova. An
active participant in the Bay Area choral scene, he currently serves as an Artist-in-Residence at the San
Francisco School of the Arts (SOTA) and has served as the Interim Music Director for the International
Orange Chorale of San Francisco, dedicated to the commissioning and performance of new choral music.
In 2015, Wittig founded GAUDE, a professional a cappella octet specializing in music of the Renaissance,
which he directs. His other interests include stumbling through old piano music and cooking for his loved
ones. He is thankful for the unending support of his friends and family, and for the opportunity to work
with the talented young singers in Cantabile.
ELENA SHARKOVA
Artistic Director and Conductor of Vocalise and Ensemble
Artistic Advisor to Aria
Elena Sharkova was born and trained in St. Petersburg, Russia and holds a
graduate degree in conducting from the famed Rimski-Korsakov Conservatoire.
A resident of the United States since 1993, Ms. Sharkova has a busy and
versatile career and is recognized as an inspirational, skilled and passionate
conductor and music educator. Ms. Sharkova enjoys working with people of all ages: she has
conducted professional, university, youth, and community choirs and orchestras in seventeen
countries across three continents.
As the Artistic Director of Cantabile Youth Singers of Silicon Valley since 2004, Ms. Sharkova oversees all
educational and performance aspects of the program that now serves over 300 children ages 4 to 18 and
she directs Cantabile’s top performing choir Vocalise and serves as Artistic Advisor to Aria and
Bravi. Under Ms. Sharkova’s direction, Cantabile’s touring choirs made a solo appearance on the
legendary stages of Carnegie Hall and Chicago’s Orchestra Hall and toured Estonia, Finland, Russia,
England, Italy, and Canada.
Ms. Sharkova moved to the Bay Area in 1998 to join the music faculty at San Jose State University and
served as Director of Choral Studies until 2006 when she assumed the position of the chorus master for
the professional Symphony Silicon Valley. In this role, Elena has prepared and conducted the Symphony
Chorale. In her seventeenth year as Music Director of Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale, Elena Sharkova
has prepared and conducted the symphony chorus in over 50 major choral-orchestral works such as
Ralph Vaughn Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem, Serenade to Music, and Five Mystical
Songs, Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, Poulenc’s Gloria, Brahms’ German
Requiem and Nanie, Bruckner’s Te Deum, Orff’s Carmina Burana, among many others. Under Sharkova’s
direction, SSV Chorale presented complete performances of the monumental masterpiece of
Russian liturgical music – Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil in 2008, and in 2011 premiered the new edition
of Ippolitov-Ivanov’s All-Night Vigil, op. 43.
Elena Sharkova regularly appears with professional artists: most recently, in 2014, she served as guest
music director for the Grammy Award winning “Orchestra of Voices” Chanticleer in a genre- and time-
spanning program entitled Russian Dreams that featured folk, spiritual, secular, and urban vocal heritage
of the nation. Ms. Sharkova’s other recent projects have been with Kronos Quartet, Symphony Silicon
Valley and Stanford Symphony, Ballet San Jose, visual artist Nene Humphrey, and actor Ryan Gosling’s
rock play, Deadman’s Bones, among others. Upcoming engagements include a series of concerts with
Grammy-winning professional choir Seraphic Fire and a conducting residency with BBC Singers in
London, UK.
A passionate advocate for Russian choral music, Elena has lectured extensively on its repertoire and
conducted several U.S. premieres of Russian contemporary compositions. Since 2013, she has served as
the editor for “Elena Sharkova Choral Series” with Carl Fischer Music Publishing. The series focuses on
twentieth and twenty-first century Russian choral music for treble and mixed voices.
One of the nation’s busiest choral clinicians and festival conductors, Elena Sharkova has conducted state,
divisional, and national honor choirs for American Choral Directors Association, National Association of
Music Educators, Organization of American Kodàly Educators and the Association for Music in
International Schools. In February 2015, Ms. Shakova received one of the nation’s highest honors when
she conducted the Junior High/Middle School Women’s Honor Choir at the 2015 ACDA National
Convention in Salt Lake City. Other recent and upcoming engagements include Texas, Alabama, North
Carolina, Florida, Washington and Virginia All-State High School Honor Choirs as well as Southwest ACDA
Division College Honor Choir and All-Eastern Honor Choir.
As a soprano, Elena Sharkova has performed and recorded with Lege Artis, one of Russia’s finest
professional choirs, and appears on five studio CDs on the Sony Classical label.
Ms. Sharkova has held academic positions at St. Petersburg State Conservatory in Russia, Western
Michigan University and San Jose State University.
TOUR PROGRAM: NEW ORLEANS
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Arrival with coach transport
to Hotel
Evening: Dinner
Thursday June 22, 2017
Morning: Sightseeing and
lunch
Afternoon: Rehearsal
Evening: Pre-Festival solo
Concert
Friday June 23, 2017
Morning: First Rehearsal
Afternoon: Sightseeing
Evening: Dinner and
Sightseeing
Saturday June 24, 2017
Morning: Mass Choir
Rehearsal
Afternoon: Sightseeing
Evening: Dinner and Dancing
evening
Sunday June 25, 2017
Morning: Mass Choir
Rehearsal
Afternoon: Sightseeing
Evening: Dinner and Dancing
Monday June 26, 2017
Morning: Rehearsal at St.
Louis Cathedral
Afternoon: Mass Choir
Concert
Evening: Dinner cruise on
Riverboat Natchez
Tuesday June 27, 2017
Departure
NEW ORLEANS TOUR PACKAGE:
FULL-SINGER PACKAGE: $2,400
PACKAGE INCLUDES:
Lodging at a Loew’s Hotel. All
lodging is Quad Occupancy for
students - no exceptions
Full-Singer package includes
Round Trip Air Fare from San
Francisco to New Orleans with
ground transportation to and from
New Orleans airport
Breakfast, lunch and dinner each
day
Fully Chaperoned Experience for
singers
Optional Travel Insurance
package (TBD)
Pre-Festival Concert
Guided tour activities for the
group
Tour t-shirt and tour materials
provided for each singer
Post-concert Dinner Cruise on
Riverboat Natchez for singers
PAYMENT SCHEDULE: FULL-SINGER $2,400:
Due Date Amount
NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT
Sign-Up Date (By September 30th)
$400
Payment #1 November 1, 2016 $500
Payment #2 December 1, 2016 $500
Payment #3 January 15, 2017 $500
Payment #4 February 15, 2017 $500
CHAPERONES $1,900:
Due Date Amount
NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT
Sign-Up Date $300
Payment #1 November 1, 2016 $400
Payment #2 December 1, 2016 $400
Payment #3 January 15, 2017 $400
Payment #4 February 15, 2017 $400
REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT:
Registration for our New Orleans Tour will be through our registration site, Jumbula. The
deposit payment will be made at the time of registration, and the subsequent four
payments will be due on the dates stated above, you will receive a reminder two weeks
before each payment is due. Online registration will open on Monday, September 19
and spots will go quickly! All singers must be registered for tour by November 10. We
have to report the number of participants to the Festival organizer much earlier than
usual for this tour so please help us by signing up and paying your deposit. You should
complete your online Follow-Up Forms for Tour when you register.
CANCELLATION: All deposits are NON-refundable and refunds for this tour will NOT be
available after November 15 unless a substitution can be made for the cancelling
singer. This is the requirement of the Festival organizer. Full payment for all previously
scheduled payment installments is due for all late registrations.
CHAPERONES: WE NEED YOU!!! Chaperones receive a $400 discount off the package
price. All chaperones must travel with the tour for the entire trip – including flying back
to San Francisco at the end of the tour. Chaperoning a trip is a great way to get an inside
look at Cantabile’s rehearsals, to get to know other Cantabile parents and have a great
time with your singer. Please contact the office if you are interested in more details:
650-424-1410 or [email protected].
**Please note: There is no “Land-Only” option for this tour. There may be the
opportunity to arrange a flight deviation for the return trip but these must be made
directly with the travel agent and will require the signer to fly home from New Orleans
on the same airline that the tour is using. This tour is only for singing participants.
Parents and family are welcome to make arrangements and travel to New Orleans to
see the performance; however, touring and rehearsal activities are restricted to singers
only.
TOUR REHEARSAL DATES: Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, June 18-20th TBD