About the Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir
The RVCC rehearses at Bethel Baptist Church in Salem VA.
Learn more about the RVCC from Director, Kim Davidson.
Founded in 1987 by Director, Kimberly Ruse Davidson (learn more about the director here), the Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir has grown to be a highly respected arts organization in the Roanoke Valley, in the state of Virginia, and beyond. The choir includes 150 children from 65 different schools throughout the Roanoke Valley and surrounding communities. For the full RVCC Choir Program, choristers 1st-12th grade (ages 6-18) are divided into three Training Choirs and a Concert Choir, taught by Director Ms. Kimberly Davidson. The RVCC also offers a shorter 6-week choir program for ages 4-6 called the “The Little Singers” choir, taught by the main RVCC Directory Ms. Kimberly Davidson as well.
With choral excellence as the foundational goal, singers in the RVCC are provided with a choral experience designed to give children musical as well as personal growth. Core emphasis is placed on the skills required to expertly learn the music and perform it with concentration, dedication and artistic expression. We believe that this work ethic instills character qualities which can be applied to many other challenging situations in life providing our choristers with the confidence needed to pursue their dreams.
The RVCC proudly boasts a strong volunteer base for the many details involved in running a large Children’s Choir. 31 volunteer committees and nearly 200 volunteers work side by side with Ms. Davidson to ensure that the organization runs smoothly and is able to provide a program of excellence in all areas. Volunteers head up the Fall Retreat, costumes, choir trips, attendance, back stage managers, grant writing, the School Tour, concert programs and much more. We are a volunteer based organization!
The Choirs perform at the annual RVCC Holiday and Spring Concerts, with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, Opera Roanoke, at local schools and churches, and for our annual Community Sing-A-Long. The Concert Choir has enjoyed many festival and solo performances including Carnegie Hall, Canterbury Cathedral, Orchestra Hall, and the National Cathedral. It is an honor for the RVCC to have been a featured choir at the ACDA Southern Conventions in 2008, 2014 and 2020 and for National ACDA in 2015. In 2022, The RVCC was honored to be recipient of the Perry F. Kendig Arts and Cultural Organization award.
The RVCC is an independent, non-profit organization with free rehearsal space graciously provided by Bethel Baptist Church in Salem, Virginia.
Mission / Vision Statement:
MISSION: To provide youth with exceptional musical instruction and performance opportunities in a safe and inclusive environment.
VISION: To develop confident leaders and team members who apply their talent and experience to strengthen and elevate their communities.
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The Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir provides an artistic and in depth study of the voice in a choral setting. We strive to teach young musicians of the Roanoke Valley how to work together and pursue excellence - in singing, in music, and in everyday life.
Rehearsals are a time of serious learning with a focus on details, and lead to performance opportunities in a variety of situations for our community and in festivals and honor performances in the US and abroad.
Throughout our 4 choirs, ranging in age from 6-18 years old, we sing a wide variety of choral music from all genres, cultures, and time periods. Our goal is to provide opportunities for growth, learning, discipline, confidence, and joy in musical performance, training, and education. The culmination of these qualities lead to not only skilled young singers, but also, diligent young musicians and capable young leaders.
Most importantly, we provide a place where lasting friendships grow, musical expression blossoms, and choir can become like family.
The RVCC Choir Programs
We offer the full RVCC choir program for 1st - 12th grade, and the “Little Singers” Choir for ages 4-6.
Click on the icons below to go to information about each choir program
Full Choir Programs
Early Elementary 1st-2nd grade
Upper Elementary 3rd-4th grade
Youth Choir
5th-9th grade
Concert Choir 8th-12th grade
Abbreviated Choir Program
Little Singers Age 4-6
Words from respected musicians in the Roanoke Valley:
“As conductor, I have the privilege of working with Children’s Choirs from across the United States. Without question, the Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir is the best prepared, most enthusiastic Children’s Choir! These wonderful kids get training at the highest level and I know when I invite them to sing with our professional symphony I can count on Kim Davidson and the RVCC to have a first rate group to sing with us.
The experiences that these young people get through singing in the RVCC will bring them a life-long love of music and singing. This is the greatest gift we can give not only to these children but also to our future leaders in our communities”.
–Maestro David Stewart Wiley, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra
“As Artistic Director of Opera Roanoke I’ve had the great pleasure of collaborating with Kim Davidson and the RVCC on a number of different Opera Roanoke productions over the years. I’ve always been so impressed with every aspect of Ms. Davidson’s leadership. The care and consummate integrity with which she prepares her young people is second to none. I conduct with orchestras and opera companies all over the country. I can say without exaggeration that Ms. Davidson’s work with the RVCC represents the highest level of musical and artistic integrity.
It would be impossible to overstate the value of the RVCC, not only to the families of the young people who participate, but also to our entire community. For twenty nine years, director Kimberly Ruse Davidson has provided for countless young people a matchless musical environment in which the properties of beauty, discipline, logic, commitment, confidence, humility, respect and love all thrive in harmonious compatibility. Ms. Davidson accomplishes this nurturing act of loving kindness through high expectations for her participants and her unwavering implementation of the highest musical standards.”
–Maestro Steven White, Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera & past Artistic Director of Opera Roanoke
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