Music Moves Kids
Children’s Choir
About Music Moves Kids Choir
MMK Choir rehearses Mondays at UMEI High School, 614 Mersea Rd. 6!
We have TWO choir sections available based on age PLUS an exciting addition of the Children’s Chorus for UMEI Players Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat!
6:00 – 7:00 pm we have our Jr. Choir (Ages 4 – 10)
6:30 – 7:00 pm Joseph Children’s Chorus Rehearsal (All ages)
6:30 – 8:00 pm we have our Sr. Choir (Ages 11 and up)
We are a non-auditioned choir, passionate about fostering a love of singing and music in children and youth!
With over ten years of serving the community through music, we are excited for you to join our musical adventures!
This year our choir dates are split into two separate sections.
Section 1 – Fall (Sept – Dec)
Includes: Halloween/Christmas concerts.
Section 2 – Spring (May – July)
Includes: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat with UMEI Players and other exciting performances yet to be anounced!
Tuition for the year/both sections:
Joseph Chorus only – ($50)
Junior Choir – $240 (Jr Choir)
Senior Choir – $255 (Sr Choir)
and can be paid through e-transfer to musicmoveskids@gmail.com, or by bringing cash or check to rehearsal.
We offer sibling discounts, please write to musicmoveskids@gmail.com for information.
We want you to sing with us, if cost is prohibitive, please write to us about our choral scholarship!
Our history
In nine years, the Music Moves Kids Children’s Choir has performed as the children’s chorus in seven operas in Toronto, Kingsville, Leamington, Niagara Falls and Windsor including their debut with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra (WSO) in La Boheme by Puccini. They are now regular performers with Abridged Opera, Opera Niagara, Opera by Request and the WSO. They have appeared on Cogeco TV, CBC, CTV and were among the small choir chosen to perform with The Tenors at Caesar’s Windsor for their PBS Broadcast recording. In 2016 several members of the MMK Choir travelled to Edinburgh, Scotland to perform the children’s opera Brundibar at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They have been first place winners at the Kiwanis Music Festival and in 2018 were chosen to perform John Rutter’s Mass of the Children, conducted by John Rutter himself, at Carnegie Hall in New York City. MMK hosted a children’s chorus from the Celaya Conservatory of Music in Mexico in 2019 and is excited to perform as part of the premiere performance of an original children’s opera, Flutter, about Monarch Butterflies this fall by mother-son team, Tracey Atin and James Atin-Godden.
Kids are music!
Rehearsal
6:15 – 7:15 pm
Tuition $220
Monday Evening Rehearsals
UMEI High School
614 Mersea Rd. 6, Leamington
Fall 2023 – Spring 2024
Our final dates vary each year depending on performances.
“Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings without attaching them to events or objects in the world.”
– George Santayana