OUR PROGRAM

The North Central High School Choirs program offers 10 unique choir options ranging from nationally ranked competitive show choirs to a state champion vocal jazz ensemble to a gospel choir performing in the African-American tradition. Intermediate choir students can build their skills in treble and bass univoice groups that compete on a limited schedule. New choir students and those looking to build their talents without the additional layers of competing or choreography can choose from a trio of non-competitive options. North Central also offers an inclusive choir providing students that receive special services with access to the performing arts and interaction with our choir students. Finally, student musicians and technical assistants can join the program as part of the Show Band and Tech Crew during competitive season.

The 300+ students who participate in NC Choirs have the option to take choir for honors credit, pursue college credit via our AP Music Theory course, or advance their individual skills with private lessons at North Central’s Vocal Arts Academy. Our choir population spans all grades and includes students training to pursue performing arts in college, honors students pursuing the International Baccalaureate diploma, varsity athletes, and members of North Central’s orchestra, dance team, cheerleading squad, reparatory theatre, and many other groups.

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EVENTS

The North Central Choirs program showcases the students in a number of concerts and competitions held throughout the school year.

NC Choirs calls the 1,266-seat Birge Auditorium home for most of their concerts. The yearly events include a season-opening camp show featuring the Half Notes campers, Fall and Spring concerts, free show choir and concert choir preview nights, the all-performing-arts Messiah concert, our More Joyful Sounds of the Season holiday spectacular, and our season-ending Evening with Counterpoints, Descants, & KC Jazz show. Our events offer us a chance to share our work with the community and raise money to cover our yearly expenses. The KC Jazz Cabaret is the lone event held outside of North Central.

North Central’s competitive choirs – Counterpoints, Descants, KC Jazz, Accents, and Varsity Singers – spend most of the winter and early spring in competition season. The groups travel to regional high schools to take part in regional show choir competitions and ISSMA concert choir and vocal jazz contests.

North Central has also served as a competition host, bringing in both nearby and out-of-state show choirs to compete in the North Central Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference Choral Competition (aka “The MIC”) yearly from 2003 to 2020. The event was put on pause at the onset of the COVID pandemic and has remained on hiatus while renovation work on North Central is underway.

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DONORS AND SPONSORS

Donations and sponsorships account for nearly 10% of North Central Choirs’ annual budget. The support of our community helps us make sure no student is denied an opportunity to be part of the choir program that best fits their needs and talents. In turn, we offer our public gratitude to sponsors and donors at events and in publications as well as by offering complimentary tickets to events and early access to our top fundraising events.

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OUR COMMUNITY

North Central Choirs is more than just the directors and students. Our community of alumni, current and past parents, community supporters, and NC staff members helps keep the program running year in and out. Our parent volunteers help get the choirs to and from events, keep costumes in shape, and organize our fundraising events. Our alumni includes local leaders, parents and grandparents of second- and third-generation NC Choirs performers, award-nominated professional performers from stage and screen, and recent grads pursuing degrees in business, education, engineering, health sciences, performing arts, and many other disciplines.

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