Discover the Windy City
Choral students attend a travel study to Chicago. The tour includes feature performances at a church and retirement center, a university choral workshop, a professional musical theatre performance, and excursions to the Chicago Cultural Center, Hancock Center, and MIllennium Park, with shopping on the Magnificent Mile and impromptu concerts along the way.
Escape to the Mountains
On alternate years, choral students take a shorter Christmas tour to The Biltmore in Asheville, NC, which includes a guest performance in the mansion, singing in the Villages of Biltmore and the Deer Park Inn, with special excursions through the Mansion and the Dairy Barn.
The Windy City from a Different View
Instrumental students also visit Chicago to experience music in one of the nation's most vibrant scenes.
En route to Chicago students stop over for a master classes at Taylor University and then on to Elkart, Indiana to experience the Conn-Selmer Instrumental Factor. They make their way to Chicago for a professional musical theatre performance, a clinic at Chicago University, shopping on the Magnificent Mile, a ride on the ferris wheel at Navy Pier, and tickets to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra or a jazz concert.