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The DSA Vocal Department consists of students in 6th-12th grades who are selected by audition each spring.

Students are required to audition as Majors into the Vocal Music Department. Those accepted are placed into one of the following choirs: Treble Choir, Voci in Crescendo, Voces Valiosas, or Chorale, which all meet daily for 90 minutes. During that 90 minutes, students receive instruction in vocal technique, choral methods, sight-singing, music theory, music history, and solo performance techniques.

In addition to choral activities, high school students are highly encouraged to take private voice lessons. High school students work on their solo voice technique in studio and performance classes throughout each semester. Middle school students have the opportunity to perform in solo days during class. As part of their major, students sing a variety of genres including classical, Broadway, jazz, pop, multicultural music, etc. DSA Vocal students have many opportunities each year to perform as soloists and ensemble members at many different venues and with many different genres of music.

Vocal majors have the opportunity to work with local, state, and national guest artists in performance and/or in the classroom. Our choirs are nationally noted, and are frequent guest performers at the Colorado Music Educators’ Association Conference (CMEA). They have performed in solo spotlights at Carnegie Hall, in the Broadway chorus for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Alice Tulley hall in Lincoln Center, with Barry Manilow, Kristin Chenoweth, and the Colorado Symphony.

Elective offerings include the following auditioned choirs: On a Side Note-The new DSA show choir, which is open to all DSA majors 8th-12th grade by audition and music theory.

Our alumni go on to colleges, universities, and conservatories across the nation, including Eastman School of Music, NYU, Berklee College of Music, CalArts, San Francisco Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory, Stanford, Penn State, Shenandoah Conservatory and others.