The Medicine Hat College Girls Choir sings earlier this year at the college theatre during the annual Rotary Music Festival. The choir is holding virtual auditions in the coming weeks.--NEWS FILE PHOTO MO CRANKER
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The Medicine Hat Girls’ Choir is looking to add more talented Hatters to perform with them.
Because of COVID-19, the choir is not able to hold in-person auditions, but director Katie-Anne Nemeth says that won’t stop tryouts.
“The auditions look a little bit different this year,” she said. “Since we can’t meet in person, I’m going to do online auditions with all of the girls using Zoom.
“We set up a time over email, then I send them an invite to the video chat and we do the audition.”
The choir performs the Remembrance Day ceremony every year in November. It also performs at the Rotary Music Festival every year. Every other year the group participates in Choralfest, which is usually in Calgary. The choir was supposed to tour in Belgium, Germany and France this July, but had to cancel.
The virtual auditions are being held June 22-26 and Nemeth says there is no set amount of spots that need to be filled.
“With the choir, we’re usually between 25 and 30 singers,” she said. “This year we had 26 singers and it was a really great group of girls.
“We have quite a few girls who are graduating high school this year and will be going away to school in the fall. So there’s definitely room to grow.”
The choir is made up of girls, 12-18. There is no education or training level required for the choir, but Nemeth says most girls have taken lessons before.
“This is an amazing ensemble for girls to be a part of,” she said. “The girls really form a bond, and the younger girls really look up to the older ones as mentors.
“The group really bonds and becomes a family.”
Email knemeth@mhc.ab.ca for more information.
