About Us

Our Mission

The NVCC is committed to providing its members and audience with a venue for choral music performances of the highest quality. The NVCC also strives to provide each member of the group with the opportunity to explore and expand his or her own individual talents, musicianship and associated performance skills.

The Choir

Members of the North Valley Chamber Chorale come from a wide range of professions and musical experiences. Although many of the singers are professional music teachers and/or performers, the membership also includes doctors and other health care professionals, accountants, teachers, business owners, retired individuals, and many other lines of work. Membership expands and contracts for each concert, depending on the outcome of auditions, availability of singers, and the performing forces needed for individual concerts.

Board of Directors

• Peter Magnusson, M.D. ~ President
• Christina Wong ~ Treasurer
• Keith Herritt ~ Secretary
• David Scholz, DMA ~ Artistic Director
• Marcia Nelson, M.D.
• Al Raitt
• Cindie Sorenson
• Audrey Tennis

Director Bio

Dr. David Scholz was appointed as the Director of Choral and Vocal Activities at California State University, Chico in Fall 2007. At CSU, Chico he directs the Acappella Choir and the Chamber Singers. He has taught various classes at the university, including Studio Voice, School Vocal Techniques, Beginning Voice Class, Aural Musicianship, Music Theory, Advanced Choral Conducting, and the general education class Great Composers and Compositions. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Scholz oversees the Chico Bach Festival, the Centennial Organ Recital Series, and coordinates the Glorious Sounds of the Season concerts, which raise over $20,000 each year for music department scholarships. He has served two terms as a faculty senator, sat for two years on the Student Evaluation of Teaching Committee, served for three years as chair of the department’s Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee, and served for three years as MUTA’s representative on the Humanities and Fine Arts Scholarship Committee. Dr. Scholz holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Music Education from St. Olaf College (1994), a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Michigan State University (1999), and a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Conducting from the University of Minnesota (2006)... read more

History

The North Valley Chamber Chorale was formed in the fall of 2010. Initial membership included 28 singers for its inaugural concert, Sing a New Song, on November 6 at Faith Lutheran Church. This concert featured a variety of choral pieces including Renaissance motets by Orlando di Lassus, Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, and Josquin des Prez, works by Georg Philipp Telemann and Giovanni Battista Martini, two of the Five English Folksongs of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and The Songs of the Prospector by Stephen Chatmann. The 2010-2011 season also included a recital titled Romantic Masterworks on Sunday, April 8 at St. John’s Episcopal Church, featuring local instrumentalists and singers performing the works of Brahms, Schubert, and Schumann, and a spring concert by the NVCC in the sanctuary of Bidwell Presbyterian Church featuring God is Gone Up by Gerald Finzi, Benjamin Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, and the Magnificat of Johann Sebastian Bach. read more