About the Festival

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he Broomfield Choral Festival (BCF) is a proud member of the Broomfield Council on the Arts and Humanities. At the heart of the Festival is a group of dedicated musicians who love to perform for a community that loves to hear good music.

We are your friends and neighbors, homemakers, business people, teachers, students, retirees and many others whose interest in live music is bringing us together into this unique organization. What we have in common is the love of performing music.

The BCF is delighted to have received individual and business endorsements from throughout the community, as well as from organizations that include The Broomfield Civic Chorus, the Broomfield Rotary Club, the Presbyterian Church of Broomfield, the Colorado Repertory Singers and the ASTER Women's Chamber Choir.

Opportunity

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ho will form the choirs and orchestras of the future? Will our musical heritage be lost to future generations? How do we instill in today's youth an appreciation of our rich musical heritage?

As a Colorado non-profit corporation, the Broomfield Choral Festival (BCF) is providing wide access to major choral music while contributing to the healthy future and vitality of music and arts in our community.The Broomfield Choral Festival gives opportunity for local singers to perform the masterpieces of music and for audiences to hear and enjoy. Our annual concert features a wide range of music. Free admission maximizes audience attendance. Removal of the audition process encourages singer participation.

Community

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he communal value of experiencing live music is powerful for the listener. The emotions that each individual feels are enhanced by the belief that others are sharing those same emotions. The experience of sharing communication in an ensemble performance is a special one for those who participate.

Broomfield Choral Festival Joins singers into a body large and diverse enough to perform with the best of professionals, affording an experience to the non-professional singer that would otherwise be almost impossible. Some of our singers have never sung with a professional orchestra before joining the BCF.

Our annual concerts are supported and enhanced by orchestra members from thoughout the metro area and by participants, supporters and audience members from communities throughout the Broomfield, Colorado, area including Boulder, Louisville, Lafayette, Westminster, Greeley, Thornton, Denver and Longmont, Dacono, Erie, Estes Park, Centennial, Johnstown, Ft. Collins, Wheatridge, Superior, Morrison, Lakewood, and Northglenn.

Education

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ur youth today are never far from their IPODs. But there's a critical difference between listening to music and making it yourself. The BCF provides a vehicle to educate and engage the hearts of our young singers in an inclusive community concert setting, influencing them to become the music lovers and performers of tomorrow. Our summer concert and rehearsal schedule, plus the opportunity to perform with a professional orchestra and soloists, enables student singers to experience the true "high" of performing some of the greatest choral works of all time.

Collaboration

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he Broomfield Choral Festival provides an annual opportunity for the community to gather to celebrate some of the greatest musical works ever written. While music brings us together, strong and lasting artistic partnerships and friendships result.

Area churches have freely made their facilities available and received valuable interaction with the community as a result.

Numerous volunteers make possible each annual performance, representing over 1500 hours of time, talent and dedication for every concert.

The challenge of perfecting the music and the magnitude of the event have a lasting effect upon those who participate in the Broomfield Choral Festival. While music brings us together, strong and lasting friendships are established as well.

Mission Statement

Major choral works presented in concert by Broomfield-area singers for community-wide non-paying audiences

Meet the Board

The BCF is overseen by a board of directors of local business people and musicians.

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"I am writing a letter in support of the Broomfield Choral Festival which has a unique place in the music scene here in the Broomfield area…. There is no other choral organization which reaches out to the community in this way.

It is a chance for singers from different choirs, churches, and people who don’t ‘belong’ to any specific group, to come together and realize a common dream of singing great musical masterpieces…”

— Christina Lynn-Craig, D.M.A. Artistic Director of ASTER Women’s Chamber Choir

The vast majority of citizens in a recent survey believe that the presence of live, professional performing arts in the community…

Source: Performing Arts Research Coalition radom survey of 800 households

According to a nation-wide survey taken by the Gallup organization, ninety-five percent of Americans believe that music is a key component in a child's well-rounded education.

Eighty percent of respondents agreed that music makes participants smarter;

Seventy-eight percent believe that learning a musical instrument helps students perform better in other subject areas;

and eighty-eight percent believe participation in music helps teach children discipline.

"The Broomfield Civic Chorus is proud to support the Broomfield Festival Choir. The Choir will promote performances of the Great Masters, fellowship among different musical groups, and learning under the direction of Maestro Ron Williams."

— Dr. Robert L. Pearson, President

Almost everyone is touched by music! Whether a simple mother's lullabye, the national anthem at a special event, fans singing spontaneously before a game, or the power of a mass choir, music is intimately bound up with important events in all our lives.

 

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