SPRING AND SUMMER BRING AN EXPLOSION OF SOUND AND EXCITEMENT

Pacific Boychoir Sings an Array of Performances in Remainder of Season

The GRAMMY-winning Pacific Boychoir Academy (PBA) presents several unique concerts in the coming months, locally and abroad, including a triennial tradition that’s unmatched in voicing and dynamisms. The brunt of the performances will be sung by the chorister in grades four through eight who attend the full-time day school. PBA is the only boychoir school in North America outside of the East Coast. They’ll be joined by their alumni counterparts who attend various Bay Area high schools, which forms a formidable soprano-alto-tenor-bass (SATB) choir of rich sonority and vast experience.

Late May performances will include the National Anthem at an Oakland A’s game and the choir’s annual Spring Serenade, including around 175 boys in grades 1-12 from both the day school and after-school choirs. One of the most highly anticipated concert sets this year is the triennial performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s "All-Night Vigil." Premiered in Moscow in 1915, this masterpiece, often referred to as "Vespers," was originally written for a choir of men and boys and will be heard as such with 90 voices in the resounding acoustics of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco on May 6th and in Oakland on May 8th at the Cathedral of Christ the Light – a Mother’s Day Weekend treat. In 2007, the San Francisco Classical Voice said, "The sheer sonic experience was chilling." Also on the program is John Tavener's The Eternal Sun, from 2007.

Rounding out the season, in June PBA will perform a concert tour of Illinois and Wisconsin before heading to Australia in July. Summer tours are the annual culmination of a packed performance seasons of around 70 concerts sung by Pacific Boychoir Academy. More at PacificBoychoir.org