Since
1948, the Phoenix Boys Choir has provided top quality music
education for boys ages 7-14 and lively entertainment for audiences
around the world previously under the direction of Dr. Harvey
K. Smith, who led the choir for forty years. The choir has
been under the baton of Georg Stangelberger since 1999. Each
season, 40 to 50 singers from the 170 member Phoenix Boys Choir
are selected for membership in the organization's elite Tour
Choir. Ranging from 10 to 14 years of age, these singers are
lauded internationally as a result of their intensive Arizona-based
training program.
Concert
tours throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, Canada,
Mexico, China, and Japan have brought the choir both audience
and critical acclaim as one of the globe's outstanding boy
choirs. The Phoenix Boys Choir has performed for four United
States Presidents and with name entertainers such as Doc Severinsen,
Stevie Wonder, and Keith Lockhart conducting the Boston Pops
Orchestra. In 2001, they were named "Cultural Ambassadors" to
the European Union and in December of 2002 were named an Honorary
Phoenix Point of Pride by the Honorable Skip Rimza, Mayor of
Phoenix.
In
February 2000, the Choir won a Grammy for Best Choral Performance
for its recording of Penderecki's Credo with the Oregon Bach
Festival Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Helmuth Rilling.
Credo is one of eight compact discs featuring the Choir, the
most recent being Joy To The World.
In February
2003, the Tour Choir performed for the American Choral Directors
Association Convention in New York City at Carnegie Hall, the
Lincoln Center and Riverside Church.
In July
2007, the Phoenix Boys Choir won first place in the Summa Cum
Laude International Youth Music Festival at the world-renowned
Musikverein in Vienna, a competition created to provide a unique
platform for the world's most talented youth choirs, bands
and orchestras.
Since
1948, the Phoenix Boys Choir has provided top quality music
education for boys ages 7-14 and lively entertainment for audiences
around the world previously under the direction of Dr. Harvey
K. Smith, who led the choir for forty years. The choir has
been under the baton of Georg Stangelberger since 1999. Each
season, 40 to 50 singers from the 170 member Phoenix Boys Choir
are selected for membership in the organization's elite Tour
Choir. Ranging from 10 to 14 years of age, these singers are
lauded internationally as a result of their intensive Arizona-based
training program.
Concert
tours throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, Canada,
Mexico, China, and Japan have brought the choir both audience
and critical acclaim as one of the globe's outstanding boy
choirs. The Phoenix Boys Choir has performed for four United
States Presidents and with name entertainers such as Doc Severinsen,
Stevie Wonder, and Keith Lockhart conducting the Boston Pops
Orchestra. In 2001, they were named "Cultural Ambassadors" to
the European Union and in December of 2002 were named an Honorary
Phoenix Point of Pride by the Honorable Skip Rimza, Mayor of
Phoenix.
In
February 2000, the Choir won a Grammy for Best Choral Performance
for its recording of Penderecki's Credo with the Oregon Bach
Festival Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Helmuth Rilling.
Credo is one of eight compact discs featuring the Choir, the
most recent being Joy To The World.