The Augusta Children’s Chorale has experienced tremendous growth, from nineteen choristers in 1991 to sixty-nine in 2007-2008.

Locally, the Chorale seasonally performs with the Augusta Opera, the Augusta Symphony and the Augusta Choral Society. Each year, Chorale extends singer training, education, and cultural awareness through two travel opportunities: (a) a tour (usually a festival of advanced choirs in which singers work with clinicians prior to major performances); (b) a long weekend at North Carolina Summer Institute for Choral Art which centers around extensive work with a well-known clinician and includes six class sessions relating to various aspects of music. ACC has accepted an invitation to perform at the 2008 National Children’s Choir Festival to be held at Carnegie Hall in New York this spring, where they will once again by conducted by internationally known clinician Henry Leck.

The following prestigious tours (by invitation) exhibit the reputation for excellence which Augusta Children’s Chorale has earned. 

ACC was represented by thirty-eight of its singers who participated in the 2007 Children in Harmony Choir Festival at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.

Thirty-three ACC singers participated in the 2005 Prague Children’s Music Festival and performed in historical venues in Prague, Vienna, and Salzburg. ACC worked with an internationally-known clinician (Joan Gregoryk) on an extremely challenging repertoire, sang mass concerts with other children’s choirs, and performed individual concerts in concert halls and cathedrals (including Saint Stephens Cathedral in Vienna and Saint Vitus Cathedral in Prague). 

ACC’s entourage of 64 visited some of Europe’s outstanding sites in the heart of music history, enriching cultural knowledge and comprehension and returning to Augusta with contagious enthusiasm for promoting cultural and educational values in the Augusta area. 

In 2004, ACC sang for Congressional spouses at The Capitol Hill Club in Washington, DC. In 2003, Augusta Children’s Chorale traveled to Music City USA (Nashville, Tennessee) to learn more about the recording industry and its history in Nashville. 

In 2002, ACC joined seven other choirs from across the nation to study with clinicians at Brigham Young University--Hawaii and to study ethnic choral literature from the Pacific Rim countries. ACC learned native musical instruments and dance during cultural instructions at the Polynesian Cultural Center, worked with native choirs, performed individually and en mass, and worked with well-known area artists. These tours yield cultural enrichment that builds universal understanding of music as it affects our nation and the world.