Trenton Children’s Chorus has a busy performance schedule throughout the month of December. Rehearsals are underway as more than 120 children prepare to perform for audiences with their gift of song at several major concerts in the greater Trenton area.
Trenton Children’s Chorus is a nonprofit organization providing more than 150 Trenton area children with choral music training and performance opportunities. The 27-year-old organization also provides academic support, group drumming and keyboard training, college preparation assistance and college scholarships.
The entire chorus will be singing at the organization’s annual Winter Concert on Friday, Dec. 9, at Covenant Presbyterian Church on Parkway Avenue in Trenton. The concert will feature performances by all five choirs with children ranging from 5 to 18 years old. The concert will open with a celebratory rendition of Betelehemu by Via Olatunji and Wendell Whalum, and will be accompanied by Trenton Children’s Chorus faculty member Eric Thomas and members of the Chorus on djembe drums. The concert is free with no reservations necessary.
More than 45 children in Trenton Children’s Chorus Chorale and Intermediate Choirs will perform with Princeton Pro Musica for the Holiday Classics concert at Patriots Theater in the Trenton War Memorial on Sunday, Dec. 11 at 4 p.m. Ticket information can be found on the Princeton Pro Musica website.
On Saturday, Dec. 17, the chorale will also be singing songs of the season at the annual Christmas in the Capitol City concert sponsored by Mayor Eric Jackson’s foundation Moving Trenton Together. The concert will be held at the Patriots Theater at the Trenton War Memorial.
Members of Trenton Children’s Chorus Readiness and Training Choirs will perform in the annual holiday concert series of VOICES, an auditioned chorus and chamber ensemble group of amateur and professional singers from New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Those concerts will be held on Dec. 11, 17 and 18, in Hopewell, Trenton and Princeton respectively. Additional information about the series can be found at voiceschorale.org.
Every child who has remained a member of Trenton Children’s Chorus through high school has been accepted into, and gone on to college. The chorus has performed at the White House for the Obamas, United Nations, South African Embassy, World Cafe Live, the Washington Monument, and many events in the Greater Trenton area.
For additional information visit about the Trenton Children’s Chorus visit their website.
Trenton Children’s Chorus is a nonprofit organization providing over 150 Trenton area children with choral music training and performance opportunities.,
