Choral Activities/Music Education
BCC is developing a reputation for professional level performances and innovation in music education. The 40-plus annual performances are rooted in Boston but have national impact – particularly through our nationally televised Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute Concert that has become a New England tradition.The music education program, most often recognized for a unique approach to diverse students of both urban and suburban backgrounds, levels the field of learning for singers with varying degrees of experience and leads all to achieve high levels of musicianship.

Artists and Scholars
BCC builds relationships with leading professional artists and scholars in the field of music and music education. These leaders interact and partner with BCC singers and the Boston community providing meaningful musical experiences. This year's roster includes the following:

• Composer-in-Residence: Bill Banfield, Berklee College of Music
• Conductor-in-Residence: Simon Halsey, Berlin Radio Choir and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus, England
• Educator-in-Residence: Lynnel Joy Jenkins, Princeton Girlchoir

Past Artists and Scholars:

• 2010/11 Conductor-in-Residence: Maria Guinand, Schola Cantorum of Venezuela
• 2010/11 Educator-in-Residence: Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, American Boychoir

Tours and Excursions
Tours provide our singers with first-rate performing opportunities within the U.S. and abroad.Through this travel and the specially-designed pre-tour education programs, singers’ lives are changed as they learn about foreign cultures, their histories, and from friendships across global boundaries. Recent travels include tours to Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and North America.

Youth Development (Modulation)
BCC empowers youth to take ownership of their participation, assisting their development as independent and responsible learners, thinkers, musicians and citizens. The youth development program provides opportunities to develop skills that allow singers to develop their own voices through omni-directional mentoring, leadership development and through the building of networking, public speaking and communication skills. In addition, the singers become deeply engaged in the community through targeted community service projects.

Teacher Professional Development
BCC will collaborate with the BPS Arts Office in implementing an intensive, multi-faceted professional development program for BPS music teachers that will give teachers district-wide an opportunity to earn professional development points as they gain curriculum and instruction tools that will make an impact on their students in the 2011-12 school year. The program will build upon a successful presentation on music literacy that Anthony Trecek-King (ATK) and Michele Adams (MA ) gave to teachers at the BPS Arts Institute Day held in Fall 2009 and the successful 2010-11 launch of this study group project.

Click here for more detailed professional development program information.

Click here for a BPS Study Group application.