Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir
Bethel Baptist Church, 1601 S Colorado St, Salem, VA 24153
About
Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir brings together children to sing traditional and fun choral music and to take part in performance opportunities in a variety of situations for the community and in festivals and honor performances in the US and abroad. Choristers participate in annual RVCC Holiday Concerts and annual RVCC Spring Concerts, and they perform with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra and Opera Roanoke, as well as at local schools and local churches. The program also includes an annual Community Sing-A-Long, festival and solo performances at venues including Carnegie Hall, Canterbury Cathedral, Orchestra Hall, and the National Cathedral, and events such as the 9th Annual Community Sing-A-Long at the Taubman Museum and a School Tour.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Schedule: Includes a shorter 6-week choir program for ages 4–6 called “The Little Singers” choir
Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir serves 150 children ages 4–18 (Kindergarten–12th grade) from around the Roanoke Valley and surrounding communities, including children from 65 different schools. For the full RVCC Choir Program, choristers in 1st–12th grade (ages 6–18) are divided into three Training Choirs and a Concert Choir, and throughout the four choirs, they sing a wide variety of choral music from all genres, cultures, and time periods. The RVCC also offers an artistic and in-depth study of the voice in a choral setting, with rehearsals described as a time of serious learning with a focus on details. The organization is an independent, non-profit, volunteer-based program with 31 volunteer committees and nearly 200 volunteers working side by side with the main RVCC Director, Ms. Kimberly Davidson, and it receives free rehearsal space graciously provided by Bethel Baptist Church in Salem, Virginia.
Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir was founded in 1987 by Director Kimberly Ruse Davidson, who has served as director and administrator and has led the program for twenty-nine years. The mission statement of the Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir is: “To provide youth with exceptional musical instruction and performance opportunities in a safe and inclusive environment.” The choir has been a featured choir at the ACDA Southern Conventions in 2008, 2014, and 2020 and at the National ACDA in 2015, and in 2022 it was honored as the recipient of the Perry F. Kendig Arts and Cultural Organization award. In 2025, the RVCC participated in the Holiday Pops with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra and held its 39th Annual Holiday Concert with concerts at 1:30 PM and 4:00 PM.
Maestro David Stewart Wiley of the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra describes the Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir as “the best prepared, most enthusiastic Children’s Choir” and notes that the children “get training at the highest level” and that he can count on Kim Davidson and the RVCC to have a “first rate group” to sing with the professional symphony. Maestro Steven White, Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and past Artistic Director of Opera Roanoke, states that he has collaborated with Kim Davidson and the RVCC on a number of Opera Roanoke productions and that “the care and consummate integrity with which she prepares her young people is second to none,” adding that Ms. Davidson’s work with the RVCC “represents the highest level of musical and artistic integrity.”
Last updated January 20, 2026.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Schedule: Includes a shorter 6-week choir program for ages 4–6 called “The Little Singers” choir
Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir serves 150 children ages 4–18 (Kindergarten–12th grade) from around the Roanoke Valley and surrounding communities, including children from 65 different schools. For the full RVCC Choir Program, choristers in 1st–12th grade (ages 6–18) are divided into three Training Choirs and a Concert Choir, and throughout the four choirs, they sing a wide variety of choral music from all genres, cultures, and time periods. The RVCC also offers an artistic and in-depth study of the voice in a choral setting, with rehearsals described as a time of serious learning with a focus on details. The organization is an independent, non-profit, volunteer-based program with 31 volunteer committees and nearly 200 volunteers working side by side with the main RVCC Director, Ms. Kimberly Davidson, and it receives free rehearsal space graciously provided by Bethel Baptist Church in Salem, Virginia.
Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir was founded in 1987 by Director Kimberly Ruse Davidson, who has served as director and administrator and has led the program for twenty-nine years. The mission statement of the Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir is: “To provide youth with exceptional musical instruction and performance opportunities in a safe and inclusive environment.” The choir has been a featured choir at the ACDA Southern Conventions in 2008, 2014, and 2020 and at the National ACDA in 2015, and in 2022 it was honored as the recipient of the Perry F. Kendig Arts and Cultural Organization award. In 2025, the RVCC participated in the Holiday Pops with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra and held its 39th Annual Holiday Concert with concerts at 1:30 PM and 4:00 PM.
Maestro David Stewart Wiley of the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra describes the Roanoke Valley Children’s Choir as “the best prepared, most enthusiastic Children’s Choir” and notes that the children “get training at the highest level” and that he can count on Kim Davidson and the RVCC to have a “first rate group” to sing with the professional symphony. Maestro Steven White, Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and past Artistic Director of Opera Roanoke, states that he has collaborated with Kim Davidson and the RVCC on a number of Opera Roanoke productions and that “the care and consummate integrity with which she prepares her young people is second to none,” adding that Ms. Davidson’s work with the RVCC “represents the highest level of musical and artistic integrity.”
Last updated January 20, 2026.
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