We have also been featured on Dan Rodricks Christmas specials and have had our Christmas CD, What Sweeter Music broadcast throughout the country on National Family Radio. Each year, the choirs undertake five concert tours. This year, our Concert Choir will tour the East Coast, and our Tour Choir will venture out on a seventeen-day tour of Italy, Austria, Germany and the Netherlands. The Maryland State Boychoir admits boys without regard to race, color, creed, religion, handicap, or ethnic origin. Prior musical training is not expected, but an audition is required.
Tuition is held to a reasonable level, and financial assistance is available.
Boys enter as members of the Resident Choir, which meets every Sautrday morning for a training program designed to develop the boy's singing voice and ability to read music at sight. Boys who evidence sufficient ability, maturity, and musical knowledge advance to the Concert Choir, where they will have performance opportunities and will continue to study sight singing and vocal techniques. The most accomplished singers may advance to the Tour Choir, which has a greater number of performance opportunities and is expected to learn difficult music in a short period of time. Some teenage members of the Tour Choir are also part of the Changed Voice Choir, which has its own separate rehearsals and repertoire. Our handbell choir also offers our choristers an opportunity to develop their musical skills.