Touring

training choirs mini-tour

Apprentice and Intermediate Choirs both participate in a day-long local tour each Spring. The tours include multiple performances in interesting venues and fun activities engaging choristers with each other, and our local community. Mini-tour destinations regularly include locations like San Juan Capistrano and San Diego's Historic Old Town.

ADVANCED CHOIRS SUMMER TOUR

Premier and Chamber Choirs have the opportunity to travel every summer in June and/or July, and follow the three-year rotation of regional, national, and international touring. Most international tours to date have been organized through the services of ACFEA Tour Consultants. Tours typically last from 6–12 days, include multiple and varied performances and fun-filled daily touring and sight-seeing of significant historical and cultural landmarks as well as region-specific educational experiences (musical and otherwise). We have had the pleasure of performing most recently in the Crescent City Choral Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana (2022), the Sing A Mile High Festival in Denver, Colorado (June 2019), the Stirling Bridge International Arts Festival in Scotland (July 2018), in New York City's Carnegie Hall (July 2017), the Golden Gate International Children’s Choral Festival, the Pacific International Children’s Choir Festival, as well as throughout Europe.

Below is a list of all national/international tours since the Choir began touring in 1994:

• 2023 Summa Cum Laude Festival, Vienna, Austria

• 2022 Crescent City Choral Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana

• 2020 Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival, Vienna, Austria (CANCELLED)

• 2019 Sing A Mile High Festival, Denver, Colorado

• 2018 Stirling Bridge International Arts Festival, Scotland

• 2017 New York City (Carnegie Hall)

• 2016 Montreal, Quebec, Canada

• 2015 New Orleans, Louisiana

• 2012 Eugene Festival, Oregon

• 2009 Pacific Rim Festival, Hawaii

Tour snapshots

"We woke up early at Turtle Bay
with all our jet-lag, that's not ok.

We had a quick breakfast at BYU,
not to mention lunch and dinner too.

Then we walked to the PCC.
A canoe took us over to Tahiti

Also over to Aoteraroa
and Hawaii and also Samoa.

In Tahiti we learned to shake our hips
and in Hawaii we learned our hula dips.

In New Zealand we twirled poi balls
and learned the sasa and Samoan calls.

In conclusion, we had a fun time.
Boy this was hard to rhyme."

- Rhianna and Aspen, choristers from 2009 Pacific Rim Festival/Hawaii tour