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Dr. Elizabeth Waterbury saw a need in her community. She discovered that most children in the Santa Barbara area had no artistic music in their lives. And she couldn't live with that. In 1991 Dr. Waterbury founded the Santa Barbara Children's Chorus to give all local children a quality music education. Since that time, the Chorus has shared the gift of music with more than a thousand children in the Santa Barbara community.
During Dr. Waterbury's tenure as Artistic Director, the Chorus performed numerous concerts and operas, including John Rutter's Piper of Hamelin, Hansel und Gretel (with Opera Santa Barbara) and Carmina Burana (with the Santa Barbara Symphony). During this time, the Chorus also established a North County Campus and toured California and Europe. In 1999, Dr. Waterbury passed the baton to Michel Marc Gervais, an internationally known conductor of children's choirs. Mr. Gervais instituted a formalized music theory curriculum and established a vocal pedagogy program with graduate students at the University of California at Santa Barbara. During Mr. Gervais' tenure, the Chorus performed its first full-length mass, Maurice Dúruflé's Requiem, as a memorial to the late Richard Breza, Santa Barbara’s beloved Chief of Police. The Chorus also established its holiday tradition, the Candlelight Concert, by selling out 1600 seats for a concert with Kenny Loggins and John Cleese. >> Continuation |
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