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America's Top Choirs 2021 winners

Canada's Top Choirs

About America's Top Choirs

America’s Top Choirs™ is a competition hosted by FeelitLIVE, which showcases the vast array of choral talent from across the United States.

America’s Top Choirs™ was created to shine a spotlight on the high school choirs that make great music for our country every day. These choirs have the privilege of being judged by a jury of five distinguished choral experts, who handpick finalists and pick the grand prize winner with the audience's help.

Stay tuned for upcoming seasons of ATC in September 2022!

Watch the ATC performances

Missed out on the Grand Finale of America's Top Choirs™? You can now feel the excitement of the night and watch the performances from the 10 top finalists on our on-demand Encore.

The Judges

Registration

Thank you for your interest in our competition.  Registrations for America's Top Choirs 2021 have closed. To check out the upcoming ATC 2022 competition, please visit https://www.feelitlive.com/americas-top-choirs

America's Top Choirs Rules

Canada's Top Choirs is an online submission-competition focused on choirs across the United States. The first season of America's Top Choirs focuses on high school choirs, so the competition will receive submissions from high schools across the United States.

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Submission requirements

  1. Song entry: Submit one song per high school choir, recorded during the last academic year.
  2. Song length: Less than 5 minutes.
  3. Entry format: Upload high-resolution mp4 video file to drive link provided by FeelitLIVE upon confirmation of school's participation.
  4. Music type: Can be any form of music – original or adapted, and of any genre.
  5. Live participation: The choir director will need to make her/himself/themselves available to do a video interaction with the jury on the competition date. This interaction will be live-streamed on FeelitLIVE.
  6. Other: Provide the sheet music along with any writeup, if applicable, for the song submitted.
  7. Entry fee: There is no entry fee to be paid. Choirs just need to fill in the online form.

Evaluation

  1. A jury of five leading choral experts will evaluate each entry.
  2. The decision of the jury is final and cannot be contested.
  3. Each performance will be evaluated according to the following:
    1. Technical evaluation – 10 points
      1. Intonation
      2. Tone
      3. Rhythm
      4. Dynamics
      5. Integration of different voice parts
      6. The overall sound quality of the choir
    2. Music and artistic criteria – 10 points
      1. Interpretation
      2. Style
    3. Overall artistic impression – 10 points
      1. Song selection
      2. Song integrity
      3. Presentation
    4. Audience poll – 10 points
      The audience will be live polling during the performance, and this will be factored into the overall team tally
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Prizes

Winner

The high school entry with the highest score will be named America's Top Choirs™ 2021 High School Edition winner and will receive:

  • $2,500 cash prize
  • Opportunity to host its own virtual or hybrid event on FeelitLIVE

Category winners

The categories below will be awarded a $500 cash prize each.

  • Best creative visuals
  • Best choreography
  • Outstanding live performance
  • Best soloist
  • Best audio/video engineering

Top 10 Finalists

The top 10 secondary schools entries selected by the judges will be entitled to:

  • Broadcast their entry at the ATC 2021 High School Edition Grand Finale
  • Opportunity to set up its own virtual fundraiser event