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Founded in 1994 by Artistic Director, Signe Boyer, now under
the artistic leadership of Elena Sharkova, Cantabile provides
the highest quality choral music experience for young singers. Our
curriculum is designed with an emphasis on vocal training,
music theory, combined choral and instrumental performance
and an exceptional variety of traditional, modern, and commissioned
music.
Over the past few years, Cantabile has become the youth
chorus of choice for adult performing organizations in the
greater bay area. Opera San Jose,
Symphony Silicon Valley, Fremont Opera and West Bay Opera, to name a few, regularly
request Cantabile Youth Singers to participate in their performances.
Cantabile
Youth Singers operates four graduated choir levels which
serve children ages 6-18 from the Peninsula through the South
Bay. Additionally, our singers participate in quarterly training
workshops as well as weekend and weeklong retreats. Workshops
and retreats include vocal training, movement and dance,
diction and language coaching, training in theory, music
reading skills, interpretation, deportment and history. All
workshops are led by staff and guest artists.
In addition
to presenting annual winter and spring concerts, Cantabile
singers perform throughout the community, and tour nationally
and internationally.
Cantabile is a proud member
of the Foothills College Performing Arts Alliance
Current guest performances include:
Past guest appearances:
- Mission Chamber Orchestra and the San Jose Symphonic
Choir in a premiere of Craig Bohmler's Sisters.
- Henry Mollicone's A Rat's Tale with El Camino Youth Symphony.
- Sondra Clark's Requiem for Lost Children with the San
Jose Symphonic Choir, Missa Gaia by Libby Larsen, with
Schola Cantorum.
- Miss Rumphius, by Victoria Ebel-Sabo, with the Peninsula
Women's Chorus.
- Monteverdi Vespers and Bach's St. Matthew Passion with
the Baroque Choral Guild.
- Carl Orff's Carmina Burana and Alva Henderson's The Ancient
Ones.
- Cantabile has also sung with the San Jose Symphony in
their Christmas Celebration Concert, performed an adaptation
of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Pirates of Penzance,
and performed for the San Jose Tech Museum's groundbreaking
dinner at the Fairmont Hotel.
Tours:
- 2005 – Cantabile Tour Choir premiere at Carnegie Hall, New York
City
- 2003 – Cantabile Tour Choir participated in its third European
tour traveling to Hungary and Austria where they spent a training
day with the Vienna Boys Choir.
- 2000 – Cantabile Tour Choir participated in the Tuscany International
Children's Choir Festival in Florence, Italy.
- 1998 – Cantabile Tour Choir performed throughout England.
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