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CHAMBER CHOIR
Westside Christian High School
Concert Choir & CHORAL
CONDUCTING

JEFFREY DOUMA
Marshall Bartholomew Professor in the Practice of Choral Music
Yale School of Music

FELICIA BARBER
Associate Professor of Choral Conducting
Yale Institute of Sacred Music

The Westside Christian High School Concert Choir
is a fifty-voice choir from a small, private high school
in Tigard, OR, with 280 students. Westside does not
have a graded choir program; it simply welcomes any
student desiring to sing. A small, auditioned class (Soli
Deo Gloria) and a non-auditioned class (Westside Voic-
es, 35-40 members) meet in separate classes, with the
combined Concert Choir coming together on select
days before school. Despite these limitations, the choir AUGUST 11–18, 2024
program has enjoyed numerous awards and honors, in-
cluding performing at OMEA on several occasions and A WEEK-LONG WORKSHOP for
advanced choral conductors and singers
capturing fifteen consecutive OSAA 3A Choir State
Championships! All sessions and final concert are VIDEO
and AUDIO RECORDED
Will Fox has taught thirteen years at Conductors have the opportunity to
Westside Christian High School in Ti- CONDUCT CHORAL and INSTRUMENTAL
ENSEMBLES
gard, Oregon. He directs all music at
the school. His choirs have won the Or- REPERTOIRE from the Renaissance
to the 21st century
egon 3A Choir State Championship for
the past eleven consecutive years and numerous vocal LOCATED on the grounds of a
jazz festivals. Fox started the Concert Band program historic estate in the Litchfield Hills
of northwestern Connecticut
in 2016, capturing four consecutive Oregon 3A Band
State Championships. He directs the Oregon Sen- APPLICATION
DEADLINE
ateAires barbershop chorus in Salem; owns a private March 14, 2024
music studio, Music at Will; and serves as an ORAC-
DA Repertoire and Resources board member and is a
certified choral judge in Oregon.

NORFOLK CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
YALE SUMMER SCHOOL OF MUSIC
YALE INSTITUTE OF SACRED MUSIC

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