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Cantabile Youth Singers
Founded in 1994 by Artistic Director Signe Boyer, Cantabile Youth Singers is now under the artistic leadership of Elena Sharkova. Cantabile provides a high-quality choral music experience through a curriculum that emphasizes music theory, vocal training, and combined choral-instrumental performance, utilizing a wide variety of traditional, modern, and commissioned music. Cantabile Youth Singers has four graduated choir levels, serving children ages 7-18 from all over the Bay Area. In addition to regular weekly classes and rehearsals, activities include quarterly training workshops, as well as weekend and week-long retreats to build musical skills, such as vocal production, diction, language, deportment, movement, and dance, as well as music theory, reading, interpretation, and history.
Cantabile Youth Singers tour both nationally and internationally. In 2005, the Vocalise and Ensemble choirs participated in the National Children’s Choir Festival and presented a performance in Carnegie Hall with Elena Sharkova as guest conductor. In 2003, the Vocalise choir participated in its third European tour, traveling to Hungary and Austria where they spent a training day with the Vienna Boys Choir.
In addition to presenting annual Winter and Spring concerts, Cantabile Youth Singers perform throughout the community with a wealth of Bay Area choral and orchestral organizations. Cantabile is a member of the Foothills College Performing Arts Alliance and the Cantabile Choral Guild.
