Cincinnati Children s Choir, CCM Ensemble-in-Residence, Receives Prestigious Scripps-Corbett Award

The E.W. Scripps Company has announced that

Cincinnati Children’s Choir

, Ensemble-in-Residence with the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), has won a

2008 Scripps-Corbett Award

.

The Scripps-Corbett Awards are the most prestigious recognition of individuals and organizations that have made artistic or cultural contributions to the Greater Cincinnati area. The Cincinnati Children’s Choir is one of seven 2008 award winners and the sole honoree in the Artist Award category.

The awards will be presented at the finale celebration for this year's Fine Arts Fund campaign, to be held at the Cincinnati Art Museum on April 29 at 5:30 p.m. The event is open to the public, and interested individuals may reply to the Fine Arts Fund at 513-871-2787 to attend.

About the Scripps-Corbett Awards
The Scripps-Corbett Awards are named in honor of the late arts patrons Patricia and J. Ralph Corbett, who worked with two Scripps newspapers, The Cincinnati Post and The Kentucky Post, in launching the awards program in 1975.

The judges for the 2008 awards were Van Ackerman (Cincinnati Arts Association), Jeaunita Olowe (Bi-Okoto Drum & Dance Theater and School of African Cultures), John Vissman (Institute for Non-Profit Capacity at Northern Kentucky University), Jim Wiseman (Toyota) and Kathy Wade (Learning Through Art).

About the Cincinnati Children’s Choir
Founded in 1993, the Cincinnati Children’s Choir (CCC) serves 450 young singers from Southwestern Ohio, Northern Kentucky and Southeastern Indiana. When residency at CCM began, CCC incorporated members and staff of the CCM Children’s Choir, founded in 1983.

CCC regularly performs with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Pops, Vocal Arts Ensemble, Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati May Festival and CCM choirs and orchestras, and the ensemble has recorded with the Pops on the Telarc label. CCC has toured Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, England, Canada, and the United States and has performed at state, regional and national conventions for music educators and maintains its own concert series.

WORLDSONG®, CCC’s international children’s choir festival, is the culmination of community, collaboration, cultural exchange, musicianship, education, and outreach. WORLDSONG® not only unites the choirs, it achieves artistic excellence and receives support from major media sponsors, corporate sponsors, and foundations.  

CCC choirs have performed under the batons of Henry Leck, Shirley McRae, Kenneth Phillips, David Flood, Jean Ashworth Bartle, Erich Kunzel, James Conlon, Earl Rivers, Steve Coker, Mark Gibson, Eric Whitacre, and Barbara Tagg. Commissions include works by Bob Chilcott, Shirley McRae, Malcolm Dalglish, Cynthia Gray, Jason Webb, Allan Naplan, and David Kisor.

CCC is conducted by founder and Managing Artistic Director Robyn Lana. Lana serves as national chair for Children’s Choir Repertoire and Standards for the American Choral Directors Association. She received bachelors and masters degrees from CCM and is a sought after children’s choir clinician. Additional CCC artistic personnel are Craig Matherne, assistant director, and Jan Corrothers, accompanist.