Charlotte Choir School

Charlotte Choir School is an auditioned community choral program for children and youth offering accessible and rigorous music education and performance opportunities to talented young people from every background and every corner of the Charlotte region. Originally founded in 1993 as a boys choir in the classic English tradition, the now-independent school has grown to include five distinct choirs of boys and girls whose members range in age from seven to eighteen, in residence at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church.

Rigorous instruction in music theory is integral to the Charlotte Choir School program. Students memorize music and texts in multiple languages. These aspects of the program, along with the varied opportunities for performance and the experiences of touring, go far to explain the depth of a Choir School education. Choristers emerge from the program well prepared for future formal study in music, if desired, but equally ready to pursue successful futures in any other field because of the skills and characteristics they cultivate in Charlotte Choir School.

Every year the choirs of Charlotte Choir School perform for thousands of audience members, offering three concerts at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Uptown Charlotte as well as performances in secular and sacred settings throughout the Charlotte region. Each summer our touring children’s choirs and MasterSingers travel to destinations throughout the United States, performing for audiences all along the way. Every four years the MasterSingers travel to England to perform and to experience firsthand the roots of the Anglican choral tradition.