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Since her 1999 arrival in Southern Caliornia, Dr. KuanFen Liu has been focused on building community in the performing arts in Ventura County. In 2004, this community building led Dr. Liu to found both the Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra (CHICO) and the Channel Islands Choral Association (CICA).
The Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra features professional musicians who live and perform in Ventura County. Under Dr. Liu’s leadership, CHICO provides ten concerts annually for audiences throughout the Ventura County. CICA is affiliated with California State University Channel Islands and has singers from all over Ventura County. Performers also include faculty, staff members, students, and alumni from CSU Channel Islands. As part of Dr. Liu’s artistic direction, both CHICO and CICA engage in extensive outreach, including performances at schools, nursing homes, and correctional facilities.
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(which encompasses both the CSU Channel Islands University Chorus and the Pleasant Valley School District Chorus)
Its mission since the start has been to enrich Ventura County by providing the performance of classical and contemporary music to audiences of all generations.
KuanFen Liu has realized the exceptional!
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For more than a decade, Channel Islands Choral Association‘s dedicated mission has been to provide students of all ages quality choral music education and performance opportunities in Ventura County. Current projects include partnerships with the CSU Channel Islands University and the Pleasant Valley School District and the ongoing sponsorship of two, dynamic choral programs:
The CSU Channel Islands University Chorus is a class that is offered at the university and is open to students, faculty, and staff, as well as, the community at large. The students enjoy the benefit of singing with experienced choral singers and establishing friendships with local community members. Community members enjoy the ability to mentor young talent, make new friends, sing under the baton of a skilled conductor, and perform energizing choral programs right in their own backyard! Each semester, the chorus performs at a venue in the community as well as on campus. Each spring, the chorus performs a major choral work with the Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra in an annual community tradition entitled, “Choral Spectacular.”
The Pleasant Valley School District Chorus is an afterschool program for elementary and middle school students helping provide the District with a high-quality music instructional program, but is open to all children throughout Ventura County. The PVSD Chorus is led by a talented team of music educators and professional community musicians giving students the opportunity to learn musical skills, develop personal confidence, and experience the joy of live concert performance. Students rehearse once a week throughout the school year with many performance opportunities in the local Camarillo area, including holiday concerts, and the annual Camarillo Christmas Parade.
Our newest endeavor focuses on Ventura County’s high school choral programs. In an effort to recharge and refresh high school choral programs and dust off the many unused chairs for high school students, CICA is excited to explore innovative and motivating ways we can help. This endeavor will give high school students the opportunity to perform with CICA and the Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra under the skillful baton of Artistic Director, Dr. KuanFen Liu. In addition, students and their Directors will be supported through a mentoring program designed to bring the support, experience and expertise of local choral conductors and creative musicians atune to high school culture directly to high school students and their staffs. Additionally, high school choral programs are financially supported through granted access to CICA’s extensive choral music library and offered the opportunity to perform in some of our community’s most exciting concert venues.
As CICA moves into the next decade of its 21st century mission, we are more determined than ever to provide students of all ages access to a quality choral music program. CICA embraces the belief that this not only cultivates musicality, but also a sense of community, belonging, and contribution that adds value to life and provides a safer and healthier community. We are moving forward… clear in our mission and vision, connecting with our community and contributing beautiful, life-enriching choral music FOR ALL!
CHICO, The Channel Islands Choral Association and outstanding soloists will join talents to present some of the best and most beloved choruses in opera. We will perform music by Wagner, Bellini, Puccini and Verdi.
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Special engagements (overseas, Carnegie, community concerts, peter & the…./+, camarillo summer concert, memorial, library opening, chamber of commerce, FUMC (my box!, CSUCI vocal coaching for theater productions including Cabaret & ………), commissions, virtual presentations for CHICO & CICA
Oregon Bach Festival — Temple Beth Torah — Beach memorial — outdoor concert — peter and the wolf + outreach — library opening — campus celebrations — conductiong overseas, clinics, workshops, juries
Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra provides a high quality venue for talented young performers in Ventura County. CHICO invites local youths, 21 years or younger, to audition to perform a solo with the orchestra.
In partnership with Ventura Unified School District (VUSD), every January, CHICO presents a free concert for all of the fourth-grade students in the district. Approximately 20 buses deliver 1,400 children to Ventura High School that has a large, elegant auditorium. On stage, they will see a live orchestra playing classical music.