Cantabile Youth Singers, under the artistic direction
of Elena Sharkova, announce auditions for fall enrollment
in all levels of choirs, June 20 and 21, 2005 by appointment
in Los Altos.
Prospective students are asked to sing an unaccompanied
song of his or her choosing. The Artistic Director will evaluate
the singer’s pitch-matching ability, melodic memory,
rhythmic ability and sight reading skills in order to place
the student in the appropriate choir level.
Prior music experience
is not required for Preparatory Choir or Intermediate Choir.
Older incoming singers will be placed
in the appropriate choir dependent upon skill and maturity.
This
is Professor Sharkova’s first season as Artistic Director,
having taken over from founding director Signe Boyer, who
retired in 2004. “I am delighted to be working with
the accomplished, dedicated, and talented Cantabile singers.
It is a great opportunity
to enhance young singers’ lives and share their talents
with appreciative audiences.”
Professor Sharkova is currently
assistant professor of music and Director of Choral Activities
at San Jose State University
and began her career working with children in St. Petersburg,
Russia, and Cantabile has taken her back to her musical roots. “Children
are a special cosmos of joy, creativity, talent, and emotion,
and I find great rewards in helping them find their voices
within.”
Cantabile Youth Singers is part of the Cantabile
Choral Guild and the Foothill College Performing Arts Alliance
and welcomes
dedicated singers ages 6-18 and rehearse in Los Altos. Cantabile
Youth Singers will present summer programs June 10 and 12
at Le Petit Trianon in San Jose, travel to New York June
24-27
to sing in a national youth choir festival at Carnegie Hall,
lead by Elena Sharkova and invite kids ages 6-10 to join
Cantabile’s
Summer Music Day Camp August 8-12.
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