BAYS singers selected for honor choirs

Singers Molly Gibbs and Madeline Mark were selected to sing with the American Choral Directors Association national elementary honor choir in Cincinnati, Ohio at the ACDA national convention in February, 2023. Singers Juliana Pate, Danna Lociel-Vega, Madeleine Colman, Madeline Mark, and Molly Gibbs were selected to sing with the...

Five singers selected for Honor Choir

Five singers have been selected for membership in the 2022 Southwestern Division of the American Choral Directors Association national honor choir. The singers are Brynn Bolton, Christina Colocado, Zoe Hein, Caleb Teng, and Madelyn Zikogiannis. They will rehearse and perform with the choir at the SWACDA convention in Little...

Lori Wagner named director of Children’s Choir

Lori Wagner is the director of the Children’s Choir. She has more than twenty years of teaching experience and has conducted choirs at the elementary, middle school, high school, and adult levels. She was fortunate to spend a year at the Kodály Institute in Kecskemét, Hungary, training in conducting,...

BAYS Singers to Perform in TCDA Select Choir

The Bay Area Youth Singers were selected as the children/youth choir to be featured in a concert at the Texas Choral Directors’ Association Convention in San Antonio July 23, 2021. A BAYS TCDA Select Choir was formed to rehearse and present this concert. After the death of long time...

Brenda Varvoutis Scholarships to be Awarded

The first Brenda Varvoutis memorial scholarships for singers pursuing college degrees in choral music education will be presented at the July 19 BAYS Pre-TCDA concert. The three recipients are graduates of South Houston High School in the Pasadena ISD where Mrs. Varvoutis served as choir director for many years.

Nicole Daniel named Artistic Director

The board of directors of the Bay Area Youth Singers named Mrs. Nicole Daniel Artistic Director for the organization at their June, 2021 meeting. Mrs. Daniel previously served as the Childrens’ Choir Director and had served as interim director for the Concert Choir during Mrs. Varvoutis extended illness. A...