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WYATT PARR
A Chicago native, Wyatt
Parr has been singing
with Chicago Children’s
Choir since September
2016 and currently sings
in the Lincoln Park/
DePaul Neighborhood
Choir. In June 2017, he sang the boy soprano
solo in Bernstein’s
Chichester
Psalms
with CCC
at its annual Paint the Town Red event at Mil-
lennium Park. Parr has also performed with the
Lyric Opera of Chicago in its productions of Bi-
zet’s
Carmen
and Puccini’s
Turandot
as a mem-
ber of the children’s chorus, and he will return to
the company this fall in the children’s chorus for
Puccini’s
La bohème
.
MYRA SAHAI
Myra Sahai has been
a member of Chicago
Children’s Choir for
two years and current-
ly sings in the Lincoln
Park/DePaul Neighbor-
hood Choir. This fall,
she will be performing with the Lyric Opera of
Chicago in the children’s chorus for its produc-
tion of Puccini’s
La bohème
. Outside of singing,
Sahai is a talented pianist and has performed at
musical festivals at Northwestern University.
CHICAGO CHILDREN’S CHOIR
Founded as a single choir in Hyde Park at the height of the civil rights movement in 1956, today Chi-
cago Children’s Choir serves 4,800 youth who represent all 57 Chicago ZIP codes. CCC’s mission is
to unite youth from diverse backgrounds to become global citizens through music, achieved through
programs in 85 city schools and 10 neighborhoods, including an ensemble for boys with changing
voices and the world-renowned Voice of Chicago. CCC has undertaken many highly successful na-
tional and international tours, most recently to Italy, Cuba, India, and South Africa. The choir has been
featured on nationally broadcast television and radio performances, including NBC’s
Today
,
Oprah
,
and the PBS series
From the Top: Live from Carnegie Hall
, and it was featured in the Chicago/Midwest
Emmy Award–winning documentary
Songs on the Road to Freedom
(2008). CCC regularly collab-
orates with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Ravinia Festival, and it
recently worked with Chance the Rapper on his Grammy Award–winning mixtape
Coloring Book
.
Onstage Chorus
Offstage Chorus
Rosa Boraz
Alexis Canellis
Amber Cloud
Triniti Cole
Kathryn D’Ambrosio
Emmylou Degnan
Martha Dunfee
Meili Fitzgerald
Hana Freidheim Javed
Daniela Gramajo
Emily Guant
Lucy Hawk
Susana Hernandez
Lucy Herr Shirrell
Lauren Johnson
Ferrill Kelley
Saniya Kodavarti
Jonas Licklider
Mabel Lopez
Emerson McConkey
Maytal Meir
Charlotte Miller
Eliza Mishkin
Emma Moreno
Katherine Navigato
Colin Nelsen
Naomi Nobles-Vincent
Jackson O’Brien
Zoey Obregon
Alexia Peponis
Caroline Polsky
Taylor Sellers-Varela
Esme Siegelin
Gabrielle Sneed
Samantha Taylor
Laelia van der Bijl
Sebastian Wimmer
Saafya Alnaqib
Vanessa Alvarado
Lexie Antoine
Angelena Blackman
Sam Butler
Sophie Butler
Danielle Colita
Crystal Cruz
Annie DeMarea
Oliver DeMarea
Seth Demus
Lucia Duffy
Mihir Epel
Sofia Galindo
Brenna Gilmartin Lacey
Gilbert Godon
Pearl Griffin
Sahana Haigh
Chloe Henderson
Vienne Hensel
Marie Isabella Hortillo
Daniel Jackson
Alec Kelly Nix
Elise Levy
Rebekah Mason
Tyra McFerren
Eve McMillin
Tulsi Morales-Johnson
Waverly Moreno
Milos Mrvaljevic
Lauren Nellis
Marty O’Brien
Layla Puzon
Sophia Rademacher-Wedd
Abigail Rades
Cecilia Renz
Asha Reynolds-Stewart
Ayden Rios
Olivia Smart
Myumi Smith
Olivia Smith
Zoe Snelling
Katherine Talmers
Aislinn Taylor
Dania Villela
Eliot Warren
Nadia Wieda
Jasmine Wilson
Degame Young
Ziya Zhou
VOCALITY
Vocality is a festival chorus comprising alumni and current members of Chicago Children’s Choir
as well as young vocal artists from a wide array of communities within and surrounding the city of
Chicago. Founded by Josephine Lee, president and artistic director of Chicago Children’s Choir, in
2015, Vocality strives to exemplify the highest level of choral singing with an emphasis on excellence
and diversity among its membership. The chorus gave its inaugural performance at Ravinia, appearing
with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and conductor Bobby McFerrin in Gershwin’s
Porgy and Bess
.
Sandy Antunez-Blas
Leanne Araya
Kasia Baranek
Talha Barberousse
Kepler Boonstra
Justin Bowse
Allie Bradford
Andrew Brhel
Allison Bridges
Conor Broaders
Jaydon Brown
Tyjuan Butler
Nathan Calaranan
Isaiah Calaranan
Alyssa Callaghan
Aron Callard
Madeline Casagrande
Anyiah Chase
Matthew Cloud
Ysabel Colita
Collin Crowl
Matt Cummings
Julia Donato
Seth Durbin
Addie Epstein
Evan Ernst
Zaira Estrada
Em Etchingham
Samantha Farmilant
Amaranta Flores
Casey Franco
George Galloway
Katherine Gonzalez
Stephanie Gregoire
Henry Griffin
Clara Grosse
Roland Hatcher
Sebastian Henson
Julian Hernandez
Papacanoochee Holt
Erica Hsieh
Karen Jesse
Caleb Kowalkowski
Henry Kowalkowski
Madeline LaPine
Brandon Lee
Coda Lewis
Sara Litchfield
Kameron Locke
Keshena Luckett
Joachim Luis
Rachel Lurie
Katya Lysander
Khalil McCarthy
Dayna Milner
Joe Moerschel
Randall Moore
Madeline Musgrove
Mary Niedzwiecki
Lukas Nowakowski
Melissa O’Neill
Sagana Ondande
Aidan O’Shea
Greyson Parfenoff
Tramaine Parker
Matthew Petersen
Mike Pope
Monica Reyes
Elijah Roberson
Angel Rodriguez
Angela Salonga
Ruth Santiago
Stephanie Schroeder
Amabel Sebastian
Rosetta Sellers-Varela
Thomas Serges
Stella Shiffrin
Whitney Shurtliff
Shuli Silver
Luis Solis
Jonathan Swain
Yumi Tallud
Nathan Taylor
Adrian Van der Bijl
Liam Van der Bijl
Gabriel Wallon
Isabel Walsman-Diaz
Madysen Ward
Ryan Warren
Sarah Zegree
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