Chippewa Valley Festival Choir

The Chippewa Valley Festival Choir is a community ensemble that performs in collaboration with the Chippewa Valley Symphony Orchestra. Under the direction of Dr. Jerry Hui, the choir brings together singers of all backgrounds to share in the joy of making music. No audition is necessary for those with prior choral experience and it is free to participate.

A large choir of men and women singing, with musicians playing brass instruments in the foreground, during a performance.

How to Join

If you’d like to be part of future performances, click the button below to join our interest list. You’ll be the first to know when the choir is preparing for its next appearance with CVSO.

MEET OUR DIRECTOR

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Jerry Hui

Jerry (Chiwei) Hui has written a wide variety of music that ranges from serious concert art music to humorous choral arrangements. His music has been performed in the United States, Germany, France, Scotland, Estonia, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong by community choirs, campus ensembles, and professional groups. Described by critics as “seriously fun”, and with “accomplished contrapuntal texture”, his compositions have won prizes including the Robert Helps Prize 2008, and received a commission that was featured at the World Saxophone Congress.

As a conductor, Dr. Hui has founded and directed various community choirs, church choirs, chamber ensembles, and orchestras. At home in both early and contemporary music, he has performed often as baritone and countertenor, actively premiering works by fellow composers. Performances by his ensembles have been featured on Wisconsin Public Radio, Wisconsin Choral Directors Association conference, and the Fringe Series of Madison Early Music Festival. He is currently the director of choral activities at University of Wisconsin-Stout, director of the Chippewa Valley Festival Choir, and artistic director of the Schola Cantorum of Eau Claire.

A native of Hong Kong, Jerry Hui received his DMA degree in music composition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Hui’s principal composition teachers include David Crumb, Stephen Dembski, Robert Kyr, Joel Naumann, and Laura Schwendinger. His conducting teachers are Beverly Taylor, Sharon Paul, and Bruce Gladstone.