Instant Choir

Share your talents and testimony through song by participating in the 2012 BYU Women’s Conference Instant Choir. Join friends, relatives, and those attending the conference with you!

All conference participants who wish to join the choir are welcome. The choir is made up of between 600-800 women like you who come from many different states and who enjoy singing together.

The Instant Choir will be singing two songs (downloadable below). We hope you will practice these two songs at home and come prepared for our one-hour practice at 6:30 a.m. Thursday, April 26.

After you enter the Marriott Center, go to Portal C and sit in Section 3. Following the rehearsal, choir members will keep their same seats as they prepare to sing in the opening session. If you come with non-choir-participant friends, encourage them to sit in regular seats near you but not to occupy seats in the choir section. Don’t forget to bring your sheet music with you!

These are the two songs that we will be singing—download, practice, and be ready to sing Thursday morning!

Thy Holy Word

arranged by Aaron Waite
http://freeldssheetmusic.org/music/show/Thy–Holy–Word–Aaron–Waite

Beautiful Savior

arranged by Sally DeFord
http://www.defordmusic.com/pdf/beautifulsaviorssa.pdf

Introducing this year’s Instant Choir conductor: Helen Berrett of Highland, Utah Helen attended BYU and graduated with a degree in music. While at BYU she sang with the BYU Singers and Concert Choir and in many operas. She also played viola in the Philharmonic Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra. She has performed as a soloist in Messiah with many symphonies and was a soloist with the Mid-America Band and Choir which toured throughout Europe. She has directed choirs in the public school system as well as for Utah State University and Western Wyoming Community College. She has also directed many choirs and musicals for community arts councils and Church ward and stake functions, and taught workshops and conducting classes. Her most rewarding and memorable conducting experience was directing the dedication choir for the Vernal Utah Temple.