Photo by Don Fogg
If you think Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir is bragging in taking year's end stock, you may be right, but it's the right kind of boasting about grand achievements:
* The organization celebrating its 30th anniversary provided about $58,000 in scholarships to young students.
* Offered specialized music training for students from such leading professionals as Ken Abrams, Justin Montigne and the Choral Institute.
* Students worked with such composers as Mark Winges, Eric Tuan, Stacey Garrop, and Jafet Bruno Ponce, performing their commissioned works.
* Won the Grand Prix Award for Choral Music (sweeping the competition as overall winner) at the International Youth Music Festival in Bratislava, winning first place in the Children’s Choir, Contemporary, and Jazz, Spiritual and Gospel categories.
* The choir was featured in To Breathe as One, a documentary about one of the largest choral events in the world, the Estonian Laulupidu Music Festival, with the Piedmont Choirs as one of the few outside choirs invited to attend.
* Performed with the Oakland East Bay Symphony, San Francisco Choral Society and Cal Performances.