Education Programs
The Virginia Chorale offers educational programs for middle and high school students. We carefully create programs that enhances, enlightens, and excites students about music based on their age and ability. Our professional singers present programs that allows students to excel and learn while having fun.
Young Singers Project
The highly acclaimed Young Singers Project showcases some of the best high school singers in southeastern Virginia. Students are selected in a competitive audition process each fall. The ensemble typically meets in January and has performances scheduled in late January or early February. The 2007-2008 YSP Ensemble will be led by Maestro Matthew Kraemer, who is also the Assistant Conductor of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra.
Last year's ensemble included students from Newport News, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, and Gloucester. In addition to their principal concert program at Norfolk Academy, they also performed in the Virginia Symphony's Youth Showcase in Newport News and a free outreach concert in Virginia Beach. In March, the ensemble performed with the Virginia Chorale and Virginia Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a concert that was televised throughout Virginia.
Auditions for the 2008 Young Singers Project were held October 8 and 22, 2007. If you are interested in auditioning for next year's ensemble, please call 757-627-8375 or email education@vachorale.org to receive audition announcements.
High School and Middle School Masterclasses
Looking for a special spark for your chorus classroom?
Want to instruct and inspire your student singers?
Looking for ways to expose your students to professional artists?
Then schedule a Virginia Chorale Master Class for your school chorus!
Summer Choral Academy
The summer of 2007 marked the very first Summer Choral Academy, a partnership between the Virginia Chorale and the Academy of Music. Students ages 12-18 had the opportunity to work for two weeks with Broadway singer, actor, and dancer Michael Parks Masterson. The Summer Choral Academy offered participation in vocal ensemble as well as workshops in audition technique, stage presence and performance technique, and musicianship. Singers also had the opportunity to work on individual solos, which were presented at a short performance at the conclusion of the program.
If you are interested in participating in the 2008 program, please sign up to receive the Virginia Chorale newsletter by emailing virginia.chorale@verizon.net.
Here's what teachers and students have said
Real professionals were here in our class! That was exciting!
Very insightful and inspiring and even with only an hour, our class sounded SO much better!
I liked how they made us have fun sounding great
My students are still talking about it!
It was perfectly in line with my objectives
We loved every minute of it!
Booking Information
To schedule an educational program, please call our office at 757-627-8375. Program fees vary depending on the type and length of program. You may qualify for free programming depending on your local arts commission funding.