About YSC

Youth Singers of Calgary is a performing arts company where children, youth and adults learn to sing, dance, and act and express themselves through the performing arts.

 

OUR VISION

To be an innovative and inclusive performing arts company that fosters personal and artistic excellence, and elevates Calgary’s cultural fabric. 

OUR MISSION

To develop lifelong skills in leadership, teamwork, perseverance, and self-confidence through high-quality performing arts instruction and experiences in a safe and supported environment, where young people are given the opportunity to grow, express themselves, and develop their potential through singing, dancing, acting, and performing.

 

OUR VALUES

Excellence

  • We provide an environment where the freedom to strive, fail, try, and persist leads to the fulfillment of each singer’s highest potential.
  • We bring experienced and credentialed staff, a strong foundation of music education, and professional teaching standards to every classroom and program.

Inclusion

  • We provide a place that offers a path to unlimited opportunities for growth as a performer to children and youth with any skill or experience level in singing.
  • We believe that every voice is worthy and valuable, and we strive to create and maintain a culture of belonging, safety, and acceptance.

Performing

  • We design performing opportunities that support children and youth to develop resilience, risk-taking, and confidence.
  • We value the process of creating, and prioritize the well-being and development for our learners as integral to this process.

Community

  • We engage performers, families, volunteers, and staff to support each other respectfully in a shared sense of purpose and joy.
  • We build leaders and engaged citizens who contribute to our city and beyond.

Collaboration

  • By coming together and sharing our expertise with each other and the greater artistic community, we enrich our understanding, create as partners what we could not do alone, and expand the possibilities for artistic expression.

 

YOUTH SINGERS IMPACT

Youth Singers provides:

  • Performance training
  • Choral singing
  • Dance and choreography
  • Show choir experience
  • A safe and inclusive space
  • Stage performances
  • Touring and travel opportunities
  • Growth in confidence
  • Leadership and advocacy skills
  • Responsibility and time management skills
  • Friendship
  • Community

 

Youth Singers of Calgary Diversity and Inclusion Statement

Approved January 16, 2021

As artists, teachers, performers, leaders and community members, the Youth Singers of Calgary whole-heartedly embraces the on-going work of Diversity and Inclusion. We commit to fostering a community that is anti-racist, and will promote the fair and equitable treatment of all who cross our path, including singers, audience and staff, alike. We will amplify the voices of those who are under-represented, and will celebrate and model creativity, generosity, and a willingness to listen, as we begin our steadfast journey towards becoming a more purposefully inclusive, diverse and embracing space.

We will work towards creating a collaborative environment that seeks to attract, develop and retain staff and performers who reject discrimination in all its forms, and who instead, actively promote the inclusion of those with differing abilities and disabilities, genders and gender expressions, sexual orientations, cultures, ethnicities, races, ages, neurodiversity, and various religious, spiritual and other beliefs.

We acknowledge that we have much to learn, as we strive to uplift and prepare the next generation of leaders through the disciplines of music, dance and acting. May our words, actions, music choices and programs be a reflection of the justice, fairness and loving acceptance we wish to see in the world.

 

YOUTH SINGERS PRODUCTIONS

Each year, Youth Singers produces two original mainstage shows at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, combining the passion and exuberance of our performers with professional technical and artistic production. We have created over 60 original shows, giving thousands of singers their first taste of the bright lights and big stages. 

YSC also performs in the community over 80 times each year, featuring every one of our members from preschool through adulthood. Children overcome their performance butterflies, teens and young adults work together to create something bigger than each individual performer, our professional ensembles bring a top-quality product to clients and audiences, and adult singers find joy and camaraderie together through performing.

Over the years, our choirs have appeared with international performers including Francisco Nuñez, Deke Sharon, Kenny Rogers, Sarah Brightman, Reba Mcintyre, and Marvin Hamlisch, as well as Canadian personalities Raghav, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, Roch Voisine, Tom Jackson, and Paul Brandt, among many others. We’ve partnered with events such as the Croatia International Jazz Festival, Video Games Live, Star Wars: In Concert, the Melodia South American Music Festival, the World Police and Fire Games, the Calgary Stampede, and many more. Today, you can find thousands of alumni across the country and around the world exercising their creativity and using the skills they learned in our programs—whether onstage, in the boardroom, in a classroom, or anywhere in between. This is the true sense of purpose and promise that our singers learn in their time with us, doing what they love.