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Middle School Choral Festival with Laura Farnell
Columbus Children’s Choir presents Laura Farnell as guest clinician for the 11th Annual Children’s Choral Festival on April 12, 2025! The festival is a full day workshop led by Farnell. This workshop is for middle school singers with treble/unchanged voices. The day culminates in a student concert showcasing what the singers learned.
Event Details
Choir Workshop (grades 6-8) led by Laura Farnell
Saturday, April 12, 8am-5pm
Licking Heights High School, Pataskala
4pm final concert
Student registration fee – $80 (10% Discount Before December 1, 2024)
Fee includes instruction, sheet music, lunch, snacks, t-shirt, concert admission
About Laura
Laura Farnell is a choral composer, clinician, accompanist, and adjudicator from Arlington, Texas. After graduating summa cum laude from Baylor University with her Bachelor of Music Education in Choral Music (with a piano emphasis), Laura taught elementary music for two years in Mansfield, Texas, followed by eight years of teaching junior high choir in Arlington, Texas. She was honored by both of her schools with Teacher of the Year awards in 2000 and 2003, and she received an Excellence in Education Award in 2004 as the Arlington Independent School District’s outstanding junior high teacher of the year.
Laura presently serves as an invited clinician for district, region, and state honor choirs across the country. She also presents workshops and music reading sessions for choir directors at both district and state levels. She has served as a clinician and/or presented at music conferences in Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wisconsin. A prolific composer, she especially enjoys writing and arranging music for middle school choirs. She is represented by several music publishers with more than sixty choral compositions in print. She is the co-author of the SOS Sight-singing Method Book published by BriLee Music.
For Teachers
Invite your students to participate in this incredible opportunity! Parents will fill out an online registration and make payment directly to CCC. You won’t have to manage cash or paper. We will even supply you and your singers rehearsal tracks!
All you need to do is send the registration link to families so they can register and pay for the event. We recommend sending home this printable take-home invite (coming soon), which includes the registration link. Please contact the office if your school intends to pay for your students’ registrations, or for any other questions including inquiries about group rates.
For Parents
Whether you have reached this page because your child’s teacher is bringing a group of singers, or you are sending your child independently, we are excited you found us! To register your child, use the register button below. You will be able to pay for the event or enter your school’s coupon code if they have arranged a group rate.
COVID-19
CCC adheres to all local mandates and best practice precautions to stop the spread of COVID-19. Because COVID-19 is a dynamic situation, we are unable to predict what if any protocols will be required or appropriate.