H+H Youth Choruses
Concert Choir
"The teachers are amazing and they balance fun with learning very well." — HHYC Singer
Concert Choir (grades 6-10) is for singers who demonstrate the maturity, interest, and musical skills to study and perform advanced level choral music. The ensemble regularly collaborates on performances with the H+H Orchestra and Chorus, including the annual Every Voice concerts directed by Reginald Mobley. Concert Choir was selected to perform for the March 2020 American Choral Directors Association Eastern Conference in Rochester, NY, and returns to NEC’s Jordan Hall for performances on the H+H subscription series in March 2024. All singers in Concert Choir also sing in Youth Chorale.
Rehearsals
Rehearsals for Concert Choir are on Saturdays at 12:30pm-1:30pm, following Youth Chorale rehearsal. All Concert Choir singers also sing with Youth Chorale and have a weekly musicianship class. Three levels of musicianship classes are offered for Concert Choir singers. The HHYC season lasts from September to May. Rehearsals and classes take place at United Parish in Brookline.
Auditions
Auditions are required to join Concert Choir. Learn more about audition requirements here.
Faculty
Michele Adams, conductor
Becca Crivello, associate conductor
June Chen, collaborative pianist
Tuition
Tuition is $450 for the full year and $225 per semester. Full and partial scholarships are offered for families demonstrating financial need. Families registering more than one singer pay full tuition for one singer and reduced tuition for all additional singers from their household.
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Faculty
Conductor
Michele Adams
Michele Adams is thrilled to join the Handel and Haydn Society Youth Choruses for the 2023-2024 season, conducting the Concert Choir and Youth Chorale. She is pleased to continue working with young artists, having previously served on the artistic teams of the Boston Children's Chorus and the Nebraska Children's Chorus. She is currently the Executive Director of the Performing Arts Center of MetroWest, where she oversees the organization's mission to create a welcoming community, providing education and performance and opportunities in music, theater, dance. She oversees all operational, development, and marketing efforts of the organization.
Adams served for ten seasons as the Director of Choirs for the award-winning Boston Children’s Chorus, where her ensembles were described as “splendid” (The Wall Street Journal) and “eloquent and perfectly-tuned” (Boston Musical Intelligencer). She conducted choirs of all levels and managed the innovative education program. Adams has also held artistic, teaching, and administrative positions in myriad public, private, and non-profit institutions, bringing arts programming to constituents of all ages. Adams is an active guest conductor, educator, and adjudicator. In recent years, she conducted honor choirs in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, prepared children’s choirs in opera premieres, and presented sessions for the American Choral Directors Association.
Adams studied choral conducting, music education, and voice at the University of South Carolina, Florida State University, and the New England Conservatory of Music. Her greatest musical passion is choral conducting, especially children’s choruses. She lives in MetroWest with her husband and two daughters.
Associate Conductor
Becca Crivello
Becca Crivello is thrilled to be joining the H+H Youth Choruses faculty as the Associate Conductor of Youth Chorale and Concert Choir! She is currently the Choral Director at Hudson Memorial School, in Hudson, New Hampshire, where she works with students in grades 6, 7, and 8 curricular choirs, an extra-curricular audition-based choir, and an annual musical.
Crivello holds her B.M. in Music Studies (Education) with a minor in Italian Studies from UMass Lowell (summa cum laude) and her M.M in Music Education from Boston University. While at UMass Lowell, she was active in the a cappella community, having founded a female-identified a cappella group called The Hawkettes and being their Music Director all four years. Upon graduation from Boston University, she received a Departmental Award in Music Education from the BU College of Fine Arts.
Her ensemble ventures include University Singers and Chamber Singers at UMass Lowell, BU Singers, Symphonic Chorus, and Graduate Vocal Ensemble at Boston University, New Hampshire Master Chorale, The Common Voice at UMass Lowell, and the Sarteano Chamber Choral Conducting Workshop. Her conducting ventures include the role of Conducting Intern for Cappella Clausura and conducting in Choral Chameleon’s Conducting Institute.
Currently, she serves as the Secretary and Contemporary/Commercial Music R&R Chair for the NH ACDA chapter. She resides in southern New Hampshire with her husband.
Collaborative Pianist
JUNE CHEN
June Chen, a native of Taiwan, is a dedicated music educator and collaborative pianist. She received her master’s degree in piano performance from Yale University and a D.M.A. from Boston University. She has performed internationally, and garnered prizes that resulted in concerto appearances. June currently teaches at the South Shore Conservatory and is very excited to join the Handel+Haydn Society Youth Choruses as a collaborative pianist for the Youth Choruses.