Central Dakota Children's Choir

During the fiscal year ending 6/30/2023, there were 296 singers ranging in age from 6 to 18 years old. Our newly formatted annual fundraiser, crescendo of care, stayed basically the same as last year with a cash raffle, online silent auction, free public performance at a local mall and a more intimate meal format to recognize our senior class. We continued to collaborate with bps sips concerts and the bismarck civic chorus. We added a kick-off celebration to recognize our 25th anniversary and awarded our 1st ever merit-based scholarship, the martel scholarship. We also commissioned a new piece to be debuted at our spring concerts, composed and conducted by tom porter. We again offered music classes for 1st and 2nd graders and, in addition to a live outreach concert series for area 2nd and 3rd graders, we distributed a link to the concert recording to area public, private and home schools. It was the year of the blizzard, which resulted in the need to cancel one night of our christmas concerts, reschedule our limited edition concerts, and secure a new venue for our outreach concerts. All of these situations were unprecedented for our program, but we found a way to get it all done. We also had the 1st ever performance of our newly formed cdcc echoes ensemble, consisting of local alumni.