Los Angeles Children's Chorus
| Formation | 1986 |
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| Type | Youth organization |
| Headquarters | Pasadena, California |
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Key people
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Anne Tomlinson Artistic director, Concert Choir director, and Chamber Singers director Mandy Brigham Preparatory Choir director and Intermediate Choir director Steven Kronauer Young Men's Ensemble director Diana Landis Apprentice Choir director |
| Website | lachildrenschorus.org |
Los Angeles Children’s Chorus (LACC) is a children's choral youth organisation based in Los Angeles. LACC has appeared in more than 300 performances with such organizations as the Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.
Since its founding in 1986, LACC has educated more than 1,200 young singers. It includes 270 choristers in six ensembles with choristers from more than 60 communities across the greater Los Angeles area. Members rehearse once or twice weekly, with weekly musicianship classes and performances with the Chorus.
Repertoire, selected to fit each choir’s skill level, covers a spectrum including established classical works, art songs, American jazz pieces and spirituals, and arrangements of folk songs from around the world.
Los Angeles Children’s Chorus was founded by Rebecca Thompson in 1986. It has office and rehearsal space in Pasadena Presbyterian Church.
LACC has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in such works as Mahler’s Third Symphony, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Adams’ El Niño, Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stravinsky’s Persephone, and Bernstein’s Mass under conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen, André Previn, and Marin Alsop. The choir sings with the Los Angeles Master Chorale under Grant Gershon and with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra under the direction of John Mauceri and Leonard Slatkin. In 2011, Concert Choir performed in the premiere of world-renowned conductor's, Esa-Pekka Salonen's, composition of Dona Nobis Pacem at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA. LACC also performs on occasion with the Pasadena Symphony, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and Southwest Chamber Music Orchestra.
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