MUsic | Saturday, may 11 | 2 PM | FREE And Open to the Public

Sing Love!

El Faro Youth Chorus Spring Concert

El Faro Youth Chorus, the first-ever trauma-informed choral ensemble, will present their third annual spring concert on Saturday, May 11, at 2 PM at FUSION. Our program is entitled "Sing Love" and will include a wide variety of love songs: love of family, love of our planet, and love of one another.

These songs come from a wide variety of musical traditions: spirituals, gospel, folk songs, classical, and contemporary. EFYC is conducted by Gabrielle Dietrich and supported at the piano by Raul Manjarrez. The program will last approximately 45 minutes, and admission is free.

ABOUT EL FARO YOUTH CHORUS

El Faro (“The Lighthouse”) Youth Chorus is an outreach program of Coro Lux providing high-quality choral music education and performance experiences to young people of the Albuquerque area. With its unique dedication to both excellence in choral musicianship and trauma-informed principles, El Faro is a safe, fun, and inviting space for music-making and voice building for youth ages 7–18.

We sing music in a wide variety of styles, and we learn about many cultures, languages, and historical periods through our repertoire. We also learn about breathing, body awareness, vocal health, and stage presence, and of course, we learn how to read and understand music. Music and singing are wonderful ways of sharing our own stories and the stories of people long ago, far away, right here, and right now. Young people have an amazing capacity to expand their own perspectives and grow their own voices through the music they learn, and that is exactly our intention and our purpose in El Faro. 

For El Faro, “trauma informed” means we believe in supporting one another through life’s challenges in the way we learn, teach, communicate, and sing. Our singers come from different backgrounds, and we understand that the story of how we came to El Faro contains both happy and sad, easy and challenging, simple and complicated times. We come to rehearsal as we are, and rehearsal must first be a place of safety and support in order to be a place of learning, growth, and excellence.

CORO LUX MISSION STATEMENT

Coro Lux (“Chorus of Light”): a non-profit organization dedicated to the preparation and performance of great choral music for the enrichment and delight of our audiences and ourselves, and to propagating love of the choral art in the next generation of singers.