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The mission of the Vocalis Youth Choir is to educate young people in the art of choral music while pr Our name, Vocalis, means “to have a voice” in Latin.

We believe that developing one’s voice as a young person is an important part of growing up and learning about oneself. The VYC strives to help all children and young people to find their voice, both as an individual and as a chorister.

03/16/2026

Our annual house concert is coming up!

Each year prior to our free spring concerts, VYC holds a friend- and fund-raising house concert.

These smaller and more intimate performances are an opportunity for us to connect more closely with the members of our choir community whose ongoing support makes all of this possible.

This year, we’ll be returning to the exceptional home of Beverly Hosokawa in Great Barrington, MA. Beverly has been a longtime supporter of Vocalis, and we are immensely grateful to her for welcoming us into her home for a second time for this event.

Visit the link in our bio to RSVP!

02/04/2026

Each season, it’s tradition that our eldest ensemble, Encore, shares a dinner out together to celebrate our camaraderie and to further get to know each other outside of rehearsal.

Thank you to our Artistic Director, Julie Bickford and to our collaborative pianist, Dorothy Cowles for making this happen. It is always such a joy, and this past Monday was no exception.

Here’s to another successful Encore dinner, and to the start of a new, joyous season!

📸: Julie Bickford

12/02/2025

Give the gift of music this Giving Tuesday!

Donations can be made by clicking the link in our bio.

For more information about the choir and our upcoming events, please visit our website, vocalisyouthchoir.org (also in bio!)

Your support is what keeps our choir active and thriving. Thank you all for considering the Vocalis Youth Choir this giving season!

10/14/2025

🌽 Three weekends ago, we partnered with Taft Farm and Berkshire Bounty to give our choristers a chance to give back to their community. Huge thanks to Taft Farm, to Berkshire Bounty, and to our Vocalis families who joined in corn picking!

We picked approximately 1200 pounds of corn, and all of it will go to support our Berkshire neighbors through Berkshire Bounty.

It was such a fun way to spend a fall morning together, and we are so proud of our singers and families for pitching in!

09/07/2025

Join us tomorrow at Saint James Place in GB!

We’ll be hosting an open rehearsal for all interested treble singers to learn more about the choir and meet our active members; no fee nor prep required!

If you love to sing, want to improve your musicianship skills, make new friends, and perform exciting music in beautiful spaces, this choir is the place for you!

5:00-6:00, family meet & greet
6:00-7:00, open rehearsal for all singers

Feel free to check out our website: vocalisyouthchoir.org

Or send us an email: [email protected]

We can’t wait to meet you! 🩵🌟

05/05/2025

Thank you to all who joined us this past weekend at Greenagers for our Spring Barn Party (pics to come!)

If you weren’t able to attend, or you’re excited to hear even more from the Vocalis Youth Choir, please join us for our Spring Concert Series.

We can’t wait!

04/18/2025

We’re throwing a barn party!

Our annual friend- and fund-raising event is nearly here, and this year we’re lucky enough to be hosted by Greenagers at their beautiful home base, April Hill Farm.

The Choir will be sharing excerpts from our spring concert series “Earth, Sea, and Sky,” joined by artist-in-residence Eric Martin on the fiddle. We’re celebrating nature, our planet, and the rich human experience.

See the second slide for more details.

We can’t wait to see you!

03/26/2025

This season, Vocalis has teamed up with three local artists to offer our first-ever Artist Workshop Series, available free of charge to all of our choristers!

Last Saturday marked the first of three workshops: a lesson in vibrant, explosive watercolor with artist Kathryn Freeman. In this workshop, students used powdered watercolors to create works of art packed to the brim with color.

Powdered watercolor is an especially fluid medium, perfect for open expression and creativity. It explodes into vibrant colors when sprinkled onto wet paper and can be moved by brushing or tilting the paper to create new colors, patterns, and shapes. Our choristers worked first with powdered watercolors and then with soft pastels to add more layers and textures.

We are so grateful to Kathryn Freeman for her tutelage and for providing this wonderful opportunity for our choristers to further express their abundant creativity.

Scroll through for a slideshow of their creations!

01/06/2025

It’s that time of year!

We are now auditioning new singers for our spring session! The Vocalis Youth Choir is a local treasure for children & young folks who love to sing & want to improve their musicality.

If you know a young person who wants to make new friends and sing exciting music in beautiful places, then this is the choir for them!

Check our bio for a link to our auditions page. We can’t wait to meet you!

open to treble singers, ages 8-18

12/11/2024

We’re in the New Marlborough 5 Village News!

We are so lucky to have such wonderfully talented writers as Robbi Hartt in our community and on our Board of Directors.

Scroll through to read her article here, and check our Linktree for the full December issue!

Thank you to Robbi Hartt and the New Marlborough 5 Village News for this piece, we are so grateful to be a part of this community.

Don’t forget to hear us sing this weekend! We’ll be performing:
Saturday at 7:30pm at Saint James Place (after the Holiday Stroll!)
Sunday at 4:00pm at the Southfield Church

We can’t wait!

🎶💙

12/09/2024

Join us this coming weekend for “Songs of the Season!”

Directed by Julie Bickford, this concert series features traditional seasonal songs such as “Good King Wenceslas,” “Noël Nouvelet,” and“Silent Night,” along with more contemporary works by Samuel Sim, Jacob Narverud, and Sarah Quartel.

The choir will be accompanied by a string trio featuring Eric Martin and Eileen Markland on the violin and Lucy Bardo on the cello.

These concerts are a lovely showcase for the choir. Each and every singer has put in the work to make this a beautiful performance, and we simply cannot wait to share it with you.

We hope to see you there!

11/27/2024

A sneak peak of our Junior & Senior choristers singing “Spirits,” adapted by Douglas Beam from William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

Slide 1 - The group sings in two parts, one taking the role of the “Dreamers,” and the other taking the role of the “Spirits.”

Slide 2 - The “Dreamers” divide and a third, descant, part is added.

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We’ll be performing at Saint James Place on Dec. 14th at 7:30pm, following the annual Holiday Stroll in Great Barrington. But don’t fret if you miss it! You can also catch us the following day at the Southfield Church at 4:00pm.
We’re so excited, and we hope you are too!

SAT, 12/14 - 7:30pm @ Saint James Place
SUN, 12/15 - 4:00pm @ The Southfield Church

Address

P. O. Box 696
Great Barrington, MA
01230

Telephone

+14137175235

Website

http://vocalisyouthchoir.org/

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