Discover Your Voice in the WorlD

Join a Choir: Spring semester rehearsals start on January 9, 2024

Join a choir in Children’s Choir of Chico to learn to read and write music, sing in varied languages, and learn songs from many genres, including great art music, Broadway tunes, spirituals, patriotic songs, traditional songs, and folk music from around the world.  Medieval to modern, Bach to Gershwin – you‘ll experience it through the Children’s Choir of Chico!

Early Childhood Division

Music experiences in the CCOC Early Childhood Division are offered for infants and parents, toddlers and parents, and pre-school age children.

Training Division

The Training Division includes beginning music fundamentals and choir experiences for children in Kindergarten through 3rd Grade.  The active classes and rehearsals of Ready, Set, Sing and the Preparatory Choir will have your child singing and moving to music at the end of the first rehearsal!

Performance Division

A more formal choir experience is offered through the Performance Division for singers in grades 4 through high school (unchanged voices), and adult women in college through retirement. In July 2015 Bel Canto (8th Grade through high school) collaborated with members of Bella Voce (women) and local community singers to undertake a concert tour to Prague, Salzburg and Vienna. 

Past performances for singers in Cantiamo (grades 4-8) and Bel Canto (grades 8-12) included a collaboration with Music Education and Opera Workshop students from Chico State to perform the children’s opera “Little Sweep” by Benjamin Britten.

All choirs annually perform for two CCOC Concerts and as guest choirs for various local organizations and events, including the DCBA Christmas Preview, Enloe Holiday Tree Lighting, DCBA Christmas Tree Lighting in the City Plaza, and the CSU Glorious Sounds of the Season, a Chico State Music Department scholarship fundraising performance.

Children’s Choir of Chico was formed in 2001 by artistic Director Susan Tevis to unite the purity of children’s voices with excellence of choral music education and artistic performance. Guided by Tevis, an active clinician and guest conductor of treble choirs throughout the United States, the original choir has expanded to five choirs, including music experiences for early childhood and adult women.  Experience and training are not necessary for any of the choirs, except Bel Canto.  For information on individual choirs and rehearsal times, or to schedule an interview for Bel Canto,  please contact us at 530-342-2775 or ccoc@childrenschoirofchico.org.