Festival 2013

Saturday, March 9, 2013 - 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Festival for Young Voices
Choirs: Vocalise, Ensemble, Intermediate
Jim Paploulis, composer & guest conductor
Location: Oshman Family JCC
3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto - map

Jim Papoulis composes, orchestrates, and conducts music from many genres and is known for work that combines contemporary, classical, and world sounds, writing for films, choirs, dance, and artists of many genres.

He has conducted hundreds of shows worldwide, with artists that include symphonies, chamber ensembles, pop bands, gospel and children's choirs.

Papoulis has made significant contributions to choral music by revitalizing the choral repertoire with songs whose roots are classical and world, with voicing that incorporates lead vocalists with choirs, vocal percussion, and world rhythms. His choral work often is sung from the perspective of the singer, and is constantly inspired by the work he does through the foundation for small voices. He firmly believes that music can heal, educate, celebrate, and empower the lives of children.

Through the Foundation for Small Voices he has conducted songwriting workshops with choirs from the United States, China, Japan, Tanzania, Mexico, Kenya, Dominican Republic, Haiti, England, Norway, Canada, France, Ireland, Bosnia, Jordan, Australia, Dubai, and Greece.

He has worked with choirs on all continents and from all walks of life, and with

Aretha Franklin, Shania Twain, Celine Dion, Beyonce, the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, London Boys Choir, London Symphony, Beijing Children's Choir, Faith Hill, Natalie Cole, Snoop Dogg,Take 6, New York Voices.

His music has recently been featured at:

• • Beijing Olympics
  • 9/11 10th Anniversary concerts throughout the world including New York, Moscow, Tokyo, Beijing, London, Oslo, Paris, Shanghai, Rio, Rome, Salzburg, St. Petersburg, Dubai
  • 2008 Presidential Inauguration
  • Pope visit televised nationally at Yankee Stadium
  • Save the Children at Lincoln Center (with Narration by Bill Clinton and Samuel Jackson)
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. ABC television special
  • The White House
  • Carnegie Hall
  • Alvin Ailey at City Center
  • Royal Albert Hall
  • World Cup South Africa 2010

Participation is free of charge to all local children's choirs. To receive an invitation, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 650-424-1410 ext. 3.

Free public concert at 1:00 PM.
 

Festival 2012

Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Peninsula Children's Choral Festival
Choirs: Vocalise, Ensemble, Intermediate
Stephen Hatfield, composer & guest conductor
First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto
625 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto - map 

For the first time in the organization's history, Cantabile has commissioned a new piece of choral music. "Breakthrough" has been composed especially for Cantabile Youth Singers of Silicon Valley by renowned composer Stephen Hatfield on the occasion of the second annual Peninsula Children's Choral Festival.

Stephen Hatfield

Don't miss this world premiere of "Breakthrough," our first commission! Come and make history with Cantabile on Saturday, March 10 at the First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto.

The Peninsula Children's Choral Festival brings together local children's choirs and directors for a day of learning and singing. The program includes a free public concert featuring our Intermediate, Ensemble and Vocalise choirs and guest choirs individually and together on the same stage. A new commission by Stephen Hatfield will be the centerpiece of this year's festival.

Mr. Hatfield is a Canadian composer, conductor, clinician and lecturer specializing in choral music. His enthusiasm, sense of humor, and love for music is what keeps him at the forefront of new choral music. For more information about Stephen Hatfield click here.