Boys’ Choir

Wednesdays 3:00 – 3:45 pm
Tuition: $530/12 week session
Directed by: Emily Ryan

Prelude music classes are for boys & girls, ages 4-6 in TK and kindergarten. This unique program offers fundamental music skills using games, symbols, and instruments. It reinforces natural abilities with pitch and rhythm and fosters teamwork and instruction following skills. Classes are taught in an exciting and positive manner, allowing children to explore and enjoy music, boosting intelligence, confidence, and future musical and educational growth. Pre-register to participate in a trial class, on us. New terms begin in September, January, and March, with new students welcomed year-round.

Wednesdays 4:00-6pm
Tuition: $210/month, $1050 semi-annually, $2100 annually
Directed by: Stella Brown

Minstrel choristers explore rhythm through patterns, movement, and playing Orff instruments. With a focus on learning teamwork and the basics of singing (good breathing, listening, and how to read music notes), they are exposed to a variety of musical styles and qualities of singing. We employ Kodály practices, extended warm-ups, vocal play, call-and-response, and both unison and small group singing. Minstrels perform twice a year and have the option of attending our daytime winter retreat and our summer music day camp, both held on our campus.

Wednesdays 4-6pm
Tuition: $210/month, $1050 semi-annually, $2100 annually
Directed by: Emily Ryan

Intermezzi choristers learn rhythm, solfege, good tone quality, diverse music, and singing in two or three voice parts. Intermezzi choristers perform a few times a year at local churches & retirement homes, and in our annual December and May concerts along with our other choirs. These choristers have the option of attending an overnight retreat in March, summer day camp in August, and, depending on vocal ability, attendance, and maturity, may be invited to a weekend tour to Monterey in June.

Mondays and Wednesdays 4:00-6:00pm
Tuition: $275/month (includes retreat), $1375 semi-annually, $2750 annually
Director: Tim Silva

Cantori is a performance ensemble giving boys the opportunity to travel around the Bay Area and the United States. Their rehearsals are repertoire-intensive, where they sing in multiple voice parts and continue more advanced music-reading and ear training techniques. With the goal of being one of the best boychoirs in the United States, these choristers learn a more sophisticated repertoire and occasionally sing with the day school Troubadors in major performances with symphonies and on domestic tours.

Mondays 6:15-8:15pm
Tuition: $265/month (includes retreat), $1325 semi-annually, $2,650 annually
Directed by: Andrew Brown

Changed Voices are a challenging, fast-paced performance choir comprised of young men, typically in high school, with lower voices, tenor, baritone, and bass. They sing in four to eight parts and learn to sight read and vocalize at a professional level. One of the finest high school-age, tenor and bass choirs, our Changed Voices choristers are typically alumni of the day school, or the elite after-school treble choir (some have been singing with the Pacific Boychoir Academy for 5 to 10 years), giving them experience and skills across their entire upper and lower registers and with a wealth of choral music. They typically rehearse and perform with the Soprano-Alto-Tenor-Bass concert and touring choirs and often participate in orchestral performances. Changed Voices choristers have the option of going on the international summer tour, overnight summer camp, and have fun on their winter retreat that is required, and highly anticipated.

Mondays 6:15-8:15pm and Wednesdays 7:00pm-9:00pm
Tuition: $310/month (includes retreat), $1550 semi-annually, $3100 annually
Directed by: Steve Blum

Continuum is a high school a cappella group as comfortable in the 16th Century as the 21st. This elite ensemble, many of them alumni of the day school, performs music ranging from sacred Renaissance motets to contemporary pop hits. Continuum performs annually throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and internationally. They have recently released singles on iTunes, Spotify, and other popular music media sites, have been heard on the NBC television show “The Blacklist”, and have been top contenders in the national Harmony Sweepstakes. Follow Continuum a cappella on Facebook and YouTube.

Mondays 5:45-6:30pm
Tuition: $150.00/month (offered by semester)
Directed by: Rita Lilly

Each semester new, incoming choristers that have had little or no previous choral training, will have the opportunity to be trained in a small group setting proper breathing and vocal production under the direction of renowned soprano soloist & vocal coach, Rita Lilly. The experience is similar to private voice lessons (which are also available), but with a small group of peers, as a bridge to the ensemble experience. Students will study both solo and choral repertoire, using vocalises, breathing and posture exercises in preparation for placement in a choral ensemble suitable to their level of mastery.