The Dubuque Chorale Children’s Choirs (DCCC) are entering their tenth season in the fall of 2024. As the children’s choirs of The Dubuque Chorale, each season has been filled with excitement, education, and many memorable performances. We are looking to add new members to our current group. Children who will be in 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade in the 2024–2025 school year are eligible to participate. Singers from Dubuque and surrounding areas are welcome to come for a voice placement interview. Concert highlights for the upcoming season include a fall concert, the Holiday Pops concert with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, Songfest, and a spring 2025 concert. Other opportunities sometimes arise during the year.
Rehearsals will be held Monday evenings from 5:15–6:30 beginning Monday, September 9th, 2024.
Tuition is $150 for the year. Second or more children in a family $25. Need based scholarships are available.
Voice placement interviews will be held at the following dates and times.
Voice placement interviews will be 5–7 minutes in length; no preparation necessary. Please fill out this form and bring it with you. Children should be accompanied by a parent or responsible adult. Please call or email ahead to reserve an interview time. While walk-ins will be accepted, there may be a waiting period of undetermined time.
To schedule an interview time: Contact (text or call) Mary Beth Ferring at (563)-580-6229 or email mbferring@aol.com.
The Dubuque Chorale Children’s Choirs are a group of approximately 50 singers in grades 3–6. The intermediate choir, the Legati Singers, is under the direction of Karmella Sellers. The preparatory choir is the Staccati Singers, directed by Victoria Bausman.
The purpose of the Children’s Choirs is to provide a creative outlet outside of the regular school day for children of Dubuque and surrounding areas. The Chorale’s intention is to expose students to new music and performance opportunities they may not have in school, and give them the opportunity to interact and form relationships with other children and adults from their community who are dedicated to choral excellence.
The goals of the group:
The Children’s Choirs perform three major concerts a year—two with the Dubuque Chorale—and occasionally other engagements.
Students must be enrolled in grade 3, 4, 5, or 6 for the 2024/25 academic year. Participation of students is encouraged throughout the tri-state area from both public and parochial schools, particularly Dubuque, East Dubuque, Sinsinawa, Bellevue, Peosta, Dyersville, and beyond. Student participation in the local music program at each respective school is also strongly encouraged.
As director of the Children’s Choir Legati Singers, Karmella
Sellers brings with her over 30 years of experience as a music educator,
firmly believing that music not only enriches lives, but teaches discipline,
teamwork and cooperation. As a Music Specialist in the Dubuque Community
School District since 2005, she has served the community through
teaching elementary children about the wonders of music and choral singing.
Mrs. Sellers has been one of the district’s Honor Choir directors since its inception. In April 2017, she was the guest conductor of the Tri-State Youth Choral Festival. She received her Bachelor of Music Education from Grand Canyon University (Phoenix, Arizona), and her Masters in Elementary Education from Northern Arizona University. In 2009, Mrs. Sellers achieved National Board Certification. She is also a member of the American Choral Directors Association, the Iowa Music Educators Association, the National Association for Music Educators, and the National Education Association.
Victoria Bausman joined the Children’s Choir staff in 2022 as
director of the newly formed preparatory ensemble, the Staccati Singers. She
is a graduate of Elmhurst University and teaches Elementary Music in Bellevue, Iowa.
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