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Logo Design by Billings Gazette
Dina Brophy, Executive Director at Venture
Theatre, welcomes ROCK at their Montana Avenue
facilities every Saturday morning. Rimrock Opera
is grateful to Venture Theatre, a partner in the
arts, for their generosity of rehearsal space.
Thank you!
Mission: To challenge, to teach and to
elevate—through music of the highest quality.
History: Rimrock Opera Chorus for Kids, ROCK,
was founded by the Rimrock Opera in September 2004.
Open to youth in the Billings area, ROCK is
dedicated to providing quality music education and a
variety of performance opportunities. Singers are
selected by audition and participate in events
throughout the school year.
Members: Currently, ROCK members represent
schools in the Yellowstone River Valley region.
Students span grades 1-12 in three different choirs,
Dolce, Cantabile and Bel Canto.
Dolce Choir: Children in first through third
grade are in the Dolce Choir. These youngest ROCK
singers work on unison and two-part music, while
learning music theory and history along with the
basics of good vocal and choral technique.
Cantabile Choir: The largest ROCK group,
Cantabile Choir, is a treble choir of students in
grades four through nine. This large ensemble works
on technique, theory, and challenging two-, three-
and four-part choral music.
Bel Canto Choir: The Bel Canto Choir
represents students in grades 8-12 and includes boys
with changed voices and maturing girls' voices,
performing three- and four-part music.
Goals: To encourage personal growth in
listening skills, music reading skills, stage
presence, poise, movement, diction, memorization and
foreign language. To teach and nurture performing
and auditioning skills. To promote the performance
of quality choral, ensemble and solo music. To
enrich our community by having a children’s choral
group available for local performances, and to
invest in our community by helping build consumers
of the arts for the future.
Achievements: ROCK has grown dramatically
since it’s inception in 2004. ROCK participates in
community cultural events with a variety of
different arts organizations. These collaborative
efforts are very successful. For further
information, please see press releases posted on
this site.
The future: Since not every Rimrock Opera season
offers an opera that includes children on stage, we
would love to produce a full children’s opera in the
coming years. We also hope for continuing
collaboration with other community arts
organizations.
Rimrock Opera Kids’ Camp: Camps are held in
late June or early July for 5 days with a public
performance held Friday afternoon. Kids are divided
into Major Campers and Minor Campers. Campers meet
for a week to enjoy learning about music, singing,
and how to put on a stage production. Campers will
prepare the music and the dialogue; even their
costumes and makeup during this intense week of fun
and education.
Auditions & Contact: If you have any questions about
ROCK, Rimrock Opera Chorus for Kids, please contact
General Director Douglas Nagel by phone 671-2214 or
by
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Auditions- ROCK auditions are scheduled in early
September for the fall semester and January for the
winter semester. These are by appointment for
students ages 7-17 for all 3 choirs.
ROCK Camp 2008 will be June 23-27, 2008.
Location and flyer to be listed by May 1, 2008.
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