Developed as an educationally oriented choral festival for children and youth choirs, the New Millennium Festival is dedicated to the performance of new music and to peace education with the following goals:
- to support the CME performance teaching paradigm by linking the standards of professional performance with the goals of music education;
- to enrich the professional development mission in choral teacher education in an authentic performance context;
- to support the concept of an interdependent, organic “process and product” relationship, and to show “teaching-as-performing” and “performing-as-teaching”;
- to expand the CME “community of colleagues” internationally with an emphasis on developing international relationships in choral music education with colleges, teacher training institutions and choral colleagues.
NMF Goal: To develop an interdependent, educationally situated peace education through musical performance festival.