Dear ’21-’22 Clear Creek Choir,
 
Congratulations on an amazing year under some of the most challenging circumstances we have ever faced in the choir world. We made it!

Before looking at next year’s rosters, I want to remind you of a few things:

1. If you have any questions about your placement, please do not contact Mr. Park or Mr. Stultz immediately. Give it a few days before you send us an email. A little perspective and a few days will give you the space needed to write the email that represents yourself in the best way and that will typically get you the best response from us. So give it a few days. After those few days, if you still would like some feedback, drop us a note to ask us what you should focus on next year to get you to the next level in your singing. We are happy to give you any feedback we can.
   
2. Even though there are some sophomores in Symphonic and Chamber Singers next year, the normal progression for our sophomore treble voices who are auditioning for a varsity choir is to move from Bel Canto to Kapelle to Symphonic and Chamber. So if you auditioned for a varsity choir and made Kapelle, you are doing phenomenally, you’re progressing exactly as we had hoped you would, you’re on track for success, and you made a varsity choir. Congrats!
   
3. Keep in mind that Kapelle was created years ago because we have more varsity treble voices than varsity tenor-bass voices, and we didn’t have enough space in Kapelle for all of our advanced voices. Who makes which choirs always comes down to the number of tenors we have in Symphonic, and next year we have 8. That’s right, in a choir program that has 175 students in it, there are eight tenors who qualified for our varsity mixed choir versus 58 sopranos and altos who all qualified for our varsity mixed choir. We can’t have a balanced choir with 8 tenors and 58 sopranos and altos. So Kapelle was created to ensure that our varsity treble voices have an ensemble where they will be challenged and can further develop their skills.

 
Finally, our ’21-’22 calendar is updated and linked on our choir website (www.clearcreekchoir.com). Please go NOW to that calendar and put the dates on your personal calendar. Take special note of our Holiday Follies winter pop show dates – there are always some students who schedule something on those dates and can’t be in our pop show. So make plans now and be proactive about getting next year’s choir dates onto your own calendar.

Below are the rosters for next year. New Chamber Singers, please take note of a few summer dates in August that you will be required to attend. (And if you already have plans on those days and cannot change them, just email Mr. Park immediately with the conflict.)

Hope you all have a wonderful summer! We’ve earned this break, and Mr. Stultz and Mr. Park hope that you have a wonderful summer!!!

-Mr. Park and Mr. Stultz

Creek Choir Newsletter 01.22.21

Dear Clear Creek Choir parents and students,
 
Attached below are the rosters for 2019-2020 Symphonic Chorale, Kapelle, and Chamber Singers as well as an announcement about a new after-school mixed choir named Ardore that is starting next year. Every year, it gets harder and harder to select the choir rosters because the level of performance, dedication, commitment, and audition keeps rising. There are many students who, five years ago, would have made our Chamber Singers but the same audition and performance level now places them into Kapelle. That attests both to your ability and talent as well as the level of performance that is ensured in Symphonic and Kapelle next year. There is SO MUCH TALENT and SO MANY GREAT STUDENTS in the Clear Creek Choir program, and you continue to make our jobs more and more difficult in terms of where to draw the lines for each of the ensembles.
 
We understand that there will be some disappointed students, but please know that we have done everything we can to ensure that both of our varsity ensembles and Chamber Singers will reach their potential next year and be of the highest level possible and give as many qualified students as possible a Clear Creek Varsity Choir experience. At 72 students, Symphonic Chorale is larger than it has been since Springs and Falls were opened, and Kapelle is also bigger than it (and its predecessor Advanced Women’s Chorale) has even been. These are both a testament to the dedication and talent of you students who continue to push yourselves to reach the highest level of musical knowledge and performance, and we are set up for us all to take our Creek Choir program even further next year than we have gone before.
 
For those students who auditioned and are not listed on the attached roster below, if you think there is an error, please contact us via email. Otherwise, we look forward to seeing you return to choir in either Concordia or Cantabile where we hope you will take on the challenge of working hard on your sight reading and performance skills while also assuming the roles of leaders in those choirs to teach the new students the expectations and skills required to be a successful member of our Clear Creek Choir family. Returning members in our JV Choirs are vital to their success and the success of our program, and we hope you will take on that responsibility while working on your own skills!
 
If you would like to contact us to get feedback on your placement, we ask that you please wait to hit send until next Monday, 6/10. We look forward to having that conversation with you, but we find that a little time allows for a more productive conversation to happen.
 
Mr. Stultz and I are genuinely excited to get started next August to see how far all of our new choirs can go. 2019-2020 is looking great! We hope that you enjoy your summer. We can’t wait to see everyone back next year!
 
Mr. Park and Mr. Stultz