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Since 1948, the Phoenix Boys Choir has provided top quality
music education for boys ages 7-14 and lively entertainment
for audiences around the world previously under the direction
of Dr. Harvey K. Smith, who led the choir for forty years.
The choir has been under the baton of Georg Stangelberger
since 1999. Each season, 40 to 50 singers from the 170 member
Phoenix Boys Choir are selected for membership in the organization's
elite Tour Choir. Ranging from 10 to 14 years of age, these
singers are lauded internationally as a result of their intensive
Arizona-based training program.
Concert tours throughout the United States, England, Spain,
France, Germany, Austria, Australia, New Zealand, Canada,
Mexico, China, and Japan have brought the choir both audience
and critical acclaim as one of the globe's outstanding boy
choirs. The Phoenix Boys Choir has performed for four United
States Presidents and with name entertainers such as Doc Severinsen,
Stevie Wonder, Dinah Shore and Keith Lockhart conducting the
Boston Pops Orchestra. In 2001, they were named "Cultural
Ambassadors" to the European Union and in December of
2002 were named an Honorary Phoenix Point of Pride by the
Honorable Skip Rimza, Mayor of Phoenix.
In February 2000, the Choir won a Grammy for Best Choral
Performance for its recording of Penderecki's Credo with the
Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Helmuth
Rilling. Credo is one of eight compact discs featuring the
Choir, the most recent being Let Freedom Sing, featuring American
folksongs and traditional patriotic music, including the Star
Spangled Banner.
In February 2003, the Tour Choir performed
for the American Choral Directors Association Convention in
New York City as the only American Boychoir selected for this
event. The choir performed at Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Center
and Riverside Church.
For more information, please visit www.boyschoir.org
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