Our Program
- Graded instruction including Training Chorus, Junior Choir, and Concert Choir. Advanced singers form small ensembles, enjoy opportunities for solo performance at concerts, and sing classical masterworks with Swarthmore College Chorus.
- Music education emphasis on sight reading, understanding theory, hearing harmony, and appreciating musical artistry.
- Special cultural and academic enhancement program for boys and young men; cultural field trips for all age-groups.
- Music teaching program directed by John Alston, associate professor of music at Swarthmore College.
- Three to five community-wide concerts each year in Chester, Swarthmore, and elsewhere.
- Year round activities: school year rehearsals five days a week and a five-week, full-day Summer Learning Program with two to three hours of music daily plus reading, science, art, and African Dance and Drumming.
- Most rehearsals, some performances, and all summer-program activities take place at Swarthmore College in the state-of-the-art Lang Music Building
John Alston
Founder & Director