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| How to audition | Can I really go to school here? | ||
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You
don't need to know anything about music to audition! Mostly, you just need
to want to learn how to sing, and want to be the best at something. We check to see what your voice sounds like,
if you can copy some notes and rhythms. If you sing along with TV commercials at home,
you're probably in the right place. And if your parents are constantly telling you to make less noise, then you're definitely in the right place. You're welcome to sing a song you know, and play piano if you take piano lessons. It's really quite simple and painless. We're just checking to see if you'd make a good member of the Boychoir. Visit the audition page for more speciifc information on auditions. |
Some
of the boys in the Pacific Boychoir actually go to school here. A school
where all the students are in a choir is called a choir school.
Some famous choirs have choir schools, like the Vienna
Boys Choir in Austria or the Drakensberg
Boys Choir in South Africa. Our choir school is the only one on the West
Coast of the USA. The boys in the choir school get 13 hours of music every week, along with the regular classes like English, math, science, languages, history, PE, and art. Because they have so much singing time, choir school boys get better very fast. They have their afternoons free to do sports or whatever, and the school schedule changes with their performance schedule. They never have to worry about catching up on work if there are important performances! You can find out more about the choir school here. |
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| Summer Camp | What's it like to sing for 40,000 people at once? | ||
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The
Intermezzi group has a daycamp in the summer at the Pacific Boychoir headquarters.
Each day is a combination of singing and an afternoon activity that might
be bowling, hiking, swimming, or an overnight camping trip. The Cantori and Troubadors, the oldest boys, go to overnight camp for a week. All the counselors have been in a famous boys choir, so they know how to help make the best singers possible. The campsite is really cool, with a pool, a baseball field, and a volleyball court! You can find out more about summer camp here. |
The
Pacific Boychoir sings for local professional sports teams all the time:
the A's, the Giants, Warriors, and the Raiders. At one game, the boys got
to shoot around with some of the Warriors after our sound check. We hung
out in one of the locker rooms before the game, where the photo for one
of our CDs was taken. Sometimes we have to sing both the American and Canadian National Anthems! On our anthem, the crowd always cheers when you get to "the land of the free." You can't listen to the speakers, because they play back your singing up to three seconds after you hear it! |
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| Tours | What kinds of places do we sing? | ||
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The
Intermezzi group goes on a weekend tour to Monterey every June. The Cantori
group tours in the United States. The Troubadors and Changed Voice boys
tour around the world. Pacific Boychoir boys have toured to about a dozen
US states and a dozen foreign countries. Over the years, Pacific Boychoitr boys have performed in and visited places on six continents. The boys have seen things such as the Great Wall of China, the canals of Venice, the Andes Mountains, the Grand Canyon, kangaroos in Australia, and lions in Africa. they have ridden horses in Wyoming and Argentina, have played on the beaches of Florida, Brazil, and Hawaii, and have entertained audiences in all these places. Our PBA bus takes us to places where we can drive, but the boys are also very familiar with travel by air. Check out photos and movies at the tour page, where there is a link for each tour. All the movies were made by the boys themselves! |
We
sing at baseball, basketball, and football games, and in different states
and countries as you can see. Sometimes we sing for weddings or schools
or churches. We've done concerts with choirs from Harvard University and
the University of Michigan. As you maybe can imagine, lots of people want
us to sing for them in December to get them in the holiday spirit. Sometimes we sing with other choirs or with professional orchestras, like the Berkeley Symphony or the San Francisco Symphony. Some of the concerts we have done with the San Francisco Symphony were recorded and the recordings won Grammy awards in 2004 and 2010! You can find out more about these recordings here. |
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