Cantabile Youth Singers, under the artistic direction
of Elena Sharkova, announce auditions for spring enrollment
in all levels of choirs, January 4, 5 and 7, 2006 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 Prof. Sharkova’s second 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.”
Prof. 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 operates four graduated choir levels
which serve children ages 6-18 from the Peninsula through South
Bay. In addition to presenting annual Winter and Spring concerts,
Cantabile singers perform throughout the community, are guest
ensembles with Bay Area choral and orchestral organizations
and tour nationally and internationally. Cantabile Youth Singers
just returned from New York where on June 24-27 where they
participated in a national youth choir festival at Carnegie
Hall, lead by Elena Sharkova.
For additional educational growth,
youth activities include quarterly training workshops as
well as weekend and weeklong
retreats. Workshops and retreats include vocal training,
diction and language coaching, movement and dance, training
in theory,
music reading skills, interpretation, deportment and history
led by staff and guest artists. Cantabile also hosts Summer
Music Day Camps for singers aged 6 to 10.
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.
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