Cache Children’s Choir announces the biennial youth choir festival held
on the campus of Utah State University in beautiful Logan, Utah.
March 12-13, 2027
Guest Conductor: TBA
Festival Schedule:
Friday, March 12th, 2027
4:00-5:00 pm Introduction, rules, warm ups
5:00-5:45 pm Group dinner
5:45-7:30 pm Combined rehearsal w/ guest conductor
8:00-9:15 pm Clinic for directors & local music teachers by guest conductor
Saturday, March 13th, 2027
8:00 am-12:35 pm Individual 40 minute Choir Clinics
Choirs have lunch on their own.
12:30-1:00 pm Singer Social
1:10-3:00 pm Final Dress Rehearsal & group photo
3:30 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.
Registration for 2027 festival is anticipated to open on July 1, 2026
$300 per choir (includes in all events, sheet music & Friday dinner)
USU faculty, staff, students and local public school educators are invited to observe the festival.
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.
