Rise Up Children’s Choir is Utah’s premiere contemporary choral program for young people ages 5 to 18. The 2021 winner of Utah’s Best of State award for “Best Music Education Organization,” Rise Up Children’s Choir has a global audience with over a quarter of a million subscribers to their YouTube channel and over 50 million views of their music videos. They won the Utah Music Video Awards’ “Best Music Video Award” for their stunning rendition of “Speechless” which has reached over 14 million views on YouTube. The choir was recognized by the #1 KPOP band BTS on Twitter for their cover of “Dynamite,” which was also named “Best Cover of Dynamite” by KPOP Chart; and recognized by the Contemporary A Cappella Society for their collaboration of “Believe” with BYU’s Vocal Point. The choir has collaborated in live performances with the trio Gentri to sold-out audiences at the Eccles Theatre, Broadway stars Dallyn Bayles and Elisabeth Evans at Libby Gardner Hall, and American Idol-winner Taylor Hicks. Rise Up Children’s Choir is comprised of four ensembles – Junior Choir for children ages 5 to 12 with musical direction by Katie Houts; Children’s Choir for youth ages 7 to 18 under the direction of Scott Shattuck; Amplify (mix boys and girls under the direction of Scott Shattuck) and Lumina (all-girls under the direction of Amy Whitcomb), our most advanced performance groups for youth ages 11 to 18.