The Chester County Choral Society’s Excellence In Vocal Performance Competition recognizes, promotes and rewards the achievement of vocal excellence in young singers in Chester County. The competition seeks out exceptional high school seniors who live, attend school or study voice in Chester County and provides winners with an opportunity to audition, to perform in concert, to earn monetary awards, and to achieve their maximum potential as young singers. Since 1993, the Choral Society has recognized scores of talented vocal performers and awarded over $11,600 in prizes. Most recently, the Honorable Charles B. Smith, a Senior Judge in the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County, has been a sponsor for the competition.
The competition will be held this year on Saturday, March 3, 2012 in the Henderson High School auditorium, 400 Montgomery Ave, West Chester, PA 19380.
** PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN LOCATION **
Singers must prepare a classical and a musical theatre selection to perform before three competition judges. All students receive a performance critique prepared by the judges after the competition.
Awards
First place: $1000 cash award, plaque to display at their school, certificate and opportunity to perform at CCCS’s spring concert.
Second place: $500 cash award, certificate and opportunity to perform.
Third place: $250 cash award and certificate.
CCCS reserves the right to limit the number of competition entrants.
Those seeking more information should contact Vocal Performance Award Chair, Wayne Kline at 717-548-1266 or by email at w_kline@hotmail.com.
CCCS Salutes the Excellence in Vocal Performance Competition Winners
2011 Vocal Performance
Bess Anne Ploener, Kennett High School, 1st Place
Liam F. Snead, Phoenixville Area High School, 2nd Place
Elizabeth Sollecito, Academy of Notre Dame de Namur, 3rd Place
(from left to right)
2011 Vocal Performance Winner Bess Anne Ploener receiving her award from Chester County Choral Society Officers, Neil Cullen, President on the left and Bob Morgan, Vice President of Administration on the right.
Judge Smith with Choral Society President Neil Cullen.
The Honorable Charles B. Smith of the Chester County Court of Common Pleas sponsored the awards in 2010 and 2011. Judge Smith has been a chorister in Episcopal Choirs for more that 60 years, and he has sung at the Church of the Good Samaritan for the last 43 years.
