Los Gatos High School Choir Recital
May 01, 2018
Maricel Riley
Los Gatos High School Choir Recital

The award-winning Los Gatos High School choir will sing for us. The program will involve a selection of favorite choral pieces. The choir has visited with us several times in the past and their performances have always been very well received.

The choir leader, Ms. Maricel Riley, provided the following information about the choir.

 

The Los Gatos High School Choral Program has grown 300% over the last 6 years.  We currently have 3 choir class: A Concert Choir and 2 classes of Chamber Singers.  All groups perform 3 concerts, participate in 2 to 3 festivals/competitions and performs in several community events in the area every year.  In 2016, the choir got First Place and a Gold Award at the World Heritage Festival in Anaheim which qualified the choir to perform at the Carnegie Hall in New York for the Festival of Golds.  The choirs have also performed with the popular band “The Foreigners” at the Mountain Winery for 3 consecutive years beginning in 2012.  In 2014, the Los Gatos High School Choir went to England for their international performance tour and performed at the Southwark Cathedral and Westminster Concert Hall in London, Yorkminster Cathedral in York and the Royal Hall in Harrogate as part of the Harrogate International Music Festival.  The choir just recently came back from their international performance tour in Spain.  The choir performed at the beautiful Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Conservatorio de Jose Iturbi in Valencia and Iglesia de San Jose in Madrid.