Ragazzi Boys Chorus’s Founder and Artistic Director, Joyce Keil, was featured in Occidental College’s Alumni Magazine in 2015. Keil talks of the origins of her love for choral music, her training at Occidental College, and … read more
Ragazzi boys are in demand! This spring has turned into one of our busier with boys from Premiere, Avanti, Concert Group, and Young Men’s Ensemble involved in four different collaborations. YME, our high school group, … read more
Last week I joined 12 of our choristers (with a parent chaperone for each) and four of our faculty at the American Choral Directors Association national convention. The boys were in three different honor choirs … read more
What do the Chamber Singers from USC (maybe the best collegiate choir in the country), the Metropolitan Chorus of Tokyo and the fabled King’s Singers have in common? They’re all here taking part in the American … read more
Congratulations to Ragazzi choristers as they represent Ragazzi Boys Chorus and their peers in Honor Choirs at the National American Choral Director’s Association Conference in Salt Lake City. The conference runs from February 25-28, 2015. In addition … read more
There’s repeated evidence that Ragazzi boys value their experience learning great music with other male singers. In the past year, four former Ragazzi choristers auditioned to rejoin the chorus. These singers realized that they missed … read more
Boy Choirs: a Fragile and important legacy, special, celebrated and unique. #2 In November, we began the discussion about the heritage of boy choirs as they have existed throughout history. In an article for Boychoir … read more
Before this fall semester can wind down, it winds… up. We had our first December gig Thursday (the Primary boys at the Redwood City Woman’s Club luncheon). We have several more gigs (Burlingame, SF Symphony, … read more
Ragazzi Boys Chorus’s Founder and Artistic Director, Joyce Keil, was interviewed by Classical KDFC radio’s Jeffrey Freyman today. Among other things, they talked about Ragazzi’s upcoming Wintersong performances. Mr. Freymann’s talk with with Joyce can be … read more
Boys singing in that ephemeral, unique angelic sound–why do we love it so much? Because of its pure beauty, because it lasts for such a short time in a boy’s life or because of the … read more