SBU High School Invitational Choir

Where your top choir students encounter the collegiate choral experience!

SBU High School Invitational Choir

Grades 9-12 | Cost: Free

Saturday, February 15, 2025
(Weather contingency date: Saturday, February 22, 2025)

Nominate Students

Chosen through directors' nominations, select high school singers merge with the university's premier choral ensemble, the Chorale, for a day of rehearsals leading to the formal evening concert of significant repertoire. 

Invited singers will

• Perform and rehearse in partnership with university singers in creating a once-in-a-lifetime concert
• Experience the focus of preparing challenging choral repertoire
• Gain an enduring context of the art which they will bring back to their schools
• Learn and use proper vocal technique as it relates to choral tone and personal vocal growth
• Bring home a higher level of confidence in themselves and their possibilities

Nominate Students

Nomination Deadline: February 1, 2025
No nomination fee!

Invitation Acceptance

Directors will be notified of student invitations on February 2, 2024. Please notify students of their invitation and assure their online response (yes or no) no later than February 5, 2025. 

Respond to Your Invitation

Repertoire to be performed: 

Event Schedule

Time	Event
9:00 a.m.	Registration, Casebolt Music Center Lobby store performance attire in Casebolt MU 101
9:30 a.m.	Rehearsal, Casebolt MU 104 Including sectionals (Casebolt MU 104 (S), 116 (B), 107 (T), Meyer RH (A))
12:00 a.m.	Lunch – Marketplace (Dining facility)
1:00 p.m.	Rehearsal
2:00 p.m.	Break
2:15 p.m.	Rehearsal
3:30 p.m.	Break
3:45 p.m.	Final Rehearsal and Cue to Cue (Pike Auditorium)
4:15 p.m.	Dress for Concert
4:45 p.m.	Places – SBU Chorale backstage; Invitational Choir front rows of Pike
5:00 p.m.	Concert (Pike Auditorium)