An educational youth choir festival hosted by Cache Children’s Choir

March 12-13, 2027

SJ Hasman

Guest Conductor
SJ Hasman is an active and experienced vocalist, educator, and conductor residing in Los Angeles. She serves as Artistic Director at Silverlake Conservatory of Music, a non-profit music school dedicated to providing a quality music education to those who cannot afford one. While she oversees all ensemble and community-based programming, she is most known for directing both youth and adult choral ensembles. Recognized as an expressive conductor and advocate for vocal health, SJ prepares her choirs and other formed ensembles for various concerts, projects and collaborations throughout the year.

 SJ continues to sing professionally, both as a soloist and an ensemble member. She has sung background vocals for many notable bands on both stage and in the studio, as well as arranged and sung vocals for film, TV, and recording projects. Her latest project was acting as co-producer, director, and vocal arranger for the double album “Silverlake All-Stars, Vol I,” where you will hear students of Silverlake Conservatory impressively sing and play nearly everything recorded.

Festival Schedule:

Friday, March 12th, 2027
4:00-6:00 pm Welcome, Warm ups and Group rehearsal #1
6:00-6:45 pm Group dinner
6:45-8:00 pm Group Rehearsal #2

Saturday, March 13th, 2027
8:00 am-11:50 am Individual 30 minute Choir Clinics and stage time
Choirs have lunch on their own.
12:00-12:50 pm Directors Lunch and Q&A with guest conductor
1:00-2:30 pm Group Rehearsal #3 (Dress Rehearsal and Group photo)
3:00 pm Festival Concert in Newel and Jean Daines Concert Hall

All events will be held in the USU Daryl Chase Fine Arts Center on the Utah State University Campus.

$300 per choir (includes in all events, sheet music & Friday dinner)

Parents of all participants must sign a media release prior to participating:
By registering, all choirs and parents of participating singers give Cache Children's Choir and its licensees the absolute right and permission to use, publish, re-use, re-publish, and distribute any photograph/voice/indicia or video footage in which any participating child may appear, in any fashion for any purposes in all media now known or hereafter devised without any limitations whatsoever, including but not limited to internet, web sites, you tube, social media, etc., as well as unlimited use in any advertising medium, brochures, promotions and educational training whatsoever, without restriction. I further release the Cache Children's Choir from any and all claims arising out of or in connection with the use of any photos/voice/indicia and video footage, including libel, slander, invasion of right of privacy, publicity or personality relating to the exercise of any rights referred to herein.

Recent Guest Conductors

2024: Ryan Eggett holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in music education from Brigham Young University and a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Utah. He has served as the conductor of numerous choirs including the Utah Valley Children’s Choir, the Missionary Choir at the Provo Missionary Training Center, the Utah Valley Institute Singers, and the Lex de Azevedo Millennial Singers. Ryan has also provided clinics and workshops across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Central Africa. Ryan serves on the Hymnbook Committee of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, engaged in creating a new hymnbook. Ryan works professionally for the Church as the Music Manager of Member Experience. In this capacity he is involved in the creation of the hymnbook recordings and other training resources in more than 50 languages. 

2022: Cyndee Geibler lives and teaches in northeast Wisconsin. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and completed her master’s degree at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. She has presented workshops for American Orff-Schulwerk Association chapters around the country as well as state, regional, and national conventions. In her spare time, Cyndee enjoys composing and arranging music for classroom use, children’s chorus, and elementary strings.

2018: Eric Tuan is a graduate student at Stanford University, pursuing studies in music and literature. A voice student of Gregory Wait and a piano student of Laura Dahl, Eric is actively engaged in numerous activities throughout the music department. He sings tenor and serves as rehearsal pianist for the Stanford Chamber Chorale, and was honored to perform the aria “Erwäge” in their performance of J.S. Bach’s Johannes-Passion at the National Gallery of Art in March 2010. An early music enthusiast, Eric has also performed with the Stanford Early Music Singers and the Monteverdi Consort, a one-voice-per-part chamber ensemble that performs Renaissance and early Baroque music. He recently returned from a term abroad in Oxford, where he sang with Schola Cantorum of Oxford, and is currently a teaching assistant in Stanford’s music theory program.

As a pianist, Eric was awarded the Stanford music department’s Patrick Butler Prize in piano performance for his rendition of Scriabin’s final set of preludes. He has also accompanied for numerous groups on campus, including the Stanford Savoyards and the music department’s non-major voice classes. In the summer of 2009, he appeared in recital with soprano Clarissa Lyons, who was a Marc and Eva Stern Fellow at Songfest 2010.

An alum of the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, Eric continues to serve on staff at their summer program, and has accompanied their concert tours to China (2005) and Seattle/British Columbia (2010). An emerging composer and arranger, he has both composed original works and created American folksong arrangements for the choir. The choir has performed Eric’s works at numerous choral events, including the Grand Prix St. Petersburg Choral Festival (2008), the 8th Golden Gate International Children’s and Youth Choral Festival (2009), and the fourteenth International Choral Kathaumixw in British Columbia (2010). Current projects include Japanese folksong arrangements for the Stanford Chamber Chorale as well as a piece for Volti’s Choral Institute for women’s choirs.