San Antonio Chamber Choir

THANK YOU! 🙏

🧡Thank you for hosting us this week!

🧡Thank you to the campers for trusting us with the process and joining us this week. (Keep up the work, keep singing and keep making music!)

🧡Thank you interns for ALLLLL the things you did (singing, picking up food, moving chairs, risers, and all the other behind the scenes things!)

🧡Thank you accompanists for sharing your talents and helping us learn this music.

🧡Thank you section leaders for teaching this music.

🧡Thank you conductors for your musicality, expertise, and guidance.

🧡Thank you to our camp coordinator and SACC Executive Director for your extensive preparation and hard work to make this a success!

Want to know what we’ve been up to? Come see tomorrow (Saturday) at 4:00 at Judson ISD Performing Arts Center. We would love to see you there!

(Campers, wear your camp shirt and bring a black binder!!!)

Day 1️⃣ of camp is in the books! Can’t wait to see everyone again tomorrow. Don’t forget Friday is Hawaiian day 🌺

All State for ALL Choir Camp has begun!!! We are thrilled to welcome over 150 campers this year. We are ready for a GREAT few days of music learning and music making 🎶🧡

🗓️ SAVE THE DATE 🗓️

We have an exciting and busy 2024-2025 Season to celebrate 2️⃣0️⃣ years 🎉

Get these dates in your calendar so you don’t miss out on what’s to come! 🤩

🗓️ September 28 & 29, 2024
🎻 When the Violin Sings

🗓️ December 20 & 21, 2024
🎄 Brake for Christmas

🗓️ March 29 & 30, 2025
🪞 Musical Wilderness of Mirrors
🌟 with Founding Artistic Director, Scott MacPherson

🗓️ April 12 & 13, 2025
🎶 Bach Easter Oratorio
🌟 in collaboration with

🗓️May 12, 2025
🎶 Cancionero de Luto
🌟 in collaboration with 3️⃣0️⃣th Anniversary

The dream team ✨
🎶Artistic director, Rick Bjella
🎹Collaborative Pianist, Eric Thompson
🎻Cellist, David Bjella

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A night of breathtaking music that speaks to the soul.

✋ WAIT! ✋ Have you registered for All State for ALL Choir Camp yet????

If not… WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR⁉️

Get a head start on the TMEA 2024-2025 repertoire with the Mixed Choir Conductor himself! 🧡🎶

⁉️ Did you know⁉️

The Alamo City Street Choir meets Wednesdays in partnership with
offering a musical outlet for those experiencing homelessness and severe disadvantage. Their voices of hope and wisdom will bring the community to a higher level of beauty through the art of singing. 🧡🎶

With the help of singers receive a gift card every rehearsal they attend! We love our HEB!

When you give to SACC, you are helping support ACSC and our community.

Check out their most recent love offering at Travis Park Church! 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfhWWM6Sr-Q

As the school year wraps up, it’s time to think ahead! 😃 Register TODAY for All State for ALL Choir Camp and get a head start on your TMEA audition music for the 2024-2025 school year!🎶

🎶 Exciting news! Our 2️⃣0️⃣th Season Announcement is just around the corner. Stay tuned—you won’t want to miss this!

A few got a sneak peek after the last concert 🤭 We are excited about this one!

Music brings us together! 🥰 With such a powerful message, this group bonded quickly. 🧡

A heartfelt thank you to all who joined us this weekend. We truly hope it was as meaningful for you as it was for us! Thank you for sharing this experience with us 🧡

Harmonizing hearts and lifting spirits: Alamo City Street Choir strikes a chord at 🎶✨

Thanks so much for joining us Brennan Bears! 💛🐻🖤

Thank you to those who were able to join us tonight. We hope it was a meaningful experience for you and we are grateful to share this with you! 🧡

If you weren’t able to come tonight, you still have one more chance! Tomorrow, Sunday, May 5 at 3:00.

If you’re looking for things to do this weekend, we’ve got you covered! 🙌 Not only does SACC have 2️⃣ performances this weekend. The Alamo City Street Choir is giving an offering of music on Sunday at 9:45. 🧡

This group is growing and impacting lives every step of the way!

✅✅✅ Check out this lovely interview with Texas Public Radio and Artisitc Director Richard Bjella.

San Antonio Chamber Choir offers gift of song to those grieving loved ones Eric Whitacre's "The Sacred Veil," written in tribute to a friend's late wife, is the centerpiece of two concerts this weekend.

Now that the big news is out…

Here’s your shameless plug to remind you that you can learn the TMEA All State music from the Mixed Choir Conductor himself! 🙌

👉Swipe for more info
🔗Link in bio to register

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

Our artistic director, Rick Bjella, will be this year’s Texas Music Educators Association All State Mixed Choir Conductor!

Congratulations on this wonderful honor! We are so very proud of you and are very excited for this journey.

High School Students 📢 Be the first to learn the music from THE conductor himself!
All State for ALL is July 11-13
🔗Link in bio for more info!

Name a stronger duo 😉
We are grateful to have such a wonderful collaborative pianist, Dr. Eric Thompson! 🧡

1️⃣ week! The countdown is on. Rehearsals are in full swing and we know this concert will be something special. 🧡 Don’t miss this one. (And bring tissues)

🔗 Link in bio for tickets 🎟️
Student rush tickets ($12) available at the door!

It’s not a weekend rehearsal without SNACK-LUCK! Sure, we made it up 😉, but the tradition continues. A break in rehearsals means food and community. 🧡

Rehearsals are underway! Don’t wait, grab your tickets NOW! We cannot wait to bring you this concert. 🧡

Link in bio 🔗

🔆SPOTLIGHT🔆

Meet our Executive DIrector, Roland Barrera ⬇️
Do you ever wonder who does the behind the scenes work? In collaboration with Rick Bjella, our artistic director, Roland coordinates events, secures funding, and advocates for the Chamber Choir among other things. In addition to this, he is also the Worship Arts & Choir Director at Tarrytown United Methodist Church. We are truly blessed to have such a wonderful executive director!

We are thrilled to present the world premiere by Kyle Pederson; Minneapolis-based composer, lyricist, pianist, and educator. Kyle was awarded the ACDA Genesis Prize in 2020 and the American Prize in Choral Composition in 2019.

Don’t miss our next concert!

🔆BOARD MEMBER SPOTLIGHT 🔆

Meet Sarah Brandt ⬇️
Music has always been a part of my life, growing up we had a piano in the house and I would spend hours of our free time playing and singing everything from traditional folk songs to show tunes to the Beatles and of course at the holidays Christmas carols. I joined the choir and band in Middle School and then was thrilled when I tried out for the high school Concert Choir at the end of 8th grade and got in! That was 1974 and the first time I met Rick Bjella. a recent college graduate in his first teaching job in little Ripon, Wisconsin population 7,000. . Rick was an amazing choral director and I was lucky to be in his Concert Choir, Madrigal Choir and take private lessons with him. He took the choir on tour, we staged Lil Abner, Amahl and the Night Visitors and Carousel and had some amazing concerts. Jump 40+ years and I am living in San Antonio listening to NPR on my way to work and they started interviewing a “Rick Bjella” about an upcoming concert. I knew it had to be him! I got tickets to the SACC concert and reconnected. So here we are 50 years later and I am now working with Rick to bring great choral music to San Antonio by serving on the San Antonio Chamber Choir Board of Directors!

Our May concert centers around Eric Whitacre’s most recent major work, The Sacred Veil. This multi-movement work features a series of poems written about the librettist Charles Anthony Silvestri’s relationship with his late wife Julie, her battle with ovarian cancer, and the grief he experienced as a result of her passing in 2005.

This concert is sure to be touching in many unique ways.

We are truly grateful for each and everyone of you who shared time with us this weekend! We wish you a wonderful holiday season!

See you in May!

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Thank you to all who joined us tonight! 🧡

We’ll see the rest of you Sunday!