WE ARE eighty auditioned choral singers from the San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area with music and choral experience who commit to the standards of professional level performances by requiring and fostering superior levels of musicianship, vocal skills, discipline and dedication, and by continuously striving for improvement individually and collectively.
WE STRIVE for PASSION WITH PRECISION as we develop and share the fruits of our talent and dedication.
Our ArtShots 2010 feature won the Audience Choice Award!
Halimat Alabi, Bay Area filmmaker and professor at Art Institute of California, directed and filmed this short video about our chorale.
Our main choir performs masterworks and more contemporary music with the symphony, as well as a wide range of pieces with smaller instrumental groups and a capella. In addition, the Chorale's smaller a capella group of over twenty auditioned singers, the Symphony Silicon Valley Singers, is dedicated to the performance of chamber choral pieces from madrigals to contemporary in diverse concert venues. Under the direction of the group's founder, Elena Sharkova, the Symphony Silicon Valley Singers explore diverse genres of chamber choral literature, from Renaissance motets and madrigals and Romantic era part-songs to contemporary music and a capella vocal jazz. Now in its second year, the group has performed to acclaim at such venues at Le Petit Trianon, The California Theatre and Villa Montalvo.
Maestra Sharkova, who directs the Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale along with the Symphony Silicon Valley Singers and the the Cantabile Youth Singers, is an internationally recognized conductor, lecturer and master teacher.
OPEN REHEARSALS
Chorale welcomes members of the community, press and prospective singers to attend our general rehearsals for a glimpse of the dynamics and intensity of our concert preparation. For directions and updates on our rehearsal venue, please contact chorale@symphonysiliconvalley.org.
