Tour Blog Archive

Please browse our archive of past tour blogs to get a taste of our previous adventures. Our Performing Department choirs travel both nationally and internationally to countries all over the world, leaving a trail of song wherever they travel. In addition to having the opportunity to sing, tours allow singers to immerse themselves into the culture they are visiting often through home stays and cultural activities planned throughout the trip.

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2024 Concert Choir Tour to West Virginia

We are delighted to share with you Concert Choir’s summer tour to Charleston, West Virginia, for the Appalachian Festival of Young Voices! This will be PEBCC’s first time attending the festival. Our singers will have the opportunity to work with the clinician, world-renowned Dr. Rollo Dilworth. Sought after to conduct festivals, all state, and honor choirs, he is also an award-winning composer. Along with working with Dr. Dilworth, the 4-day event will immerse our singers into the music and culture of the Appalachian Mountains, and foster exchange with choirs from all over the US. (Yes, they will be singing Country Roads!)

2024 Ensemble Tour to England & Wales

Follow our adventures as Ensemble embarks on their summer 2024 tour to two different regions of the UK, England and Wales. The tour will be rich in musical and cultural exchange opportunities, including two different homestay opportunities in Sutton Coldfield and in Cambridge, a short stay in Shakespeare’s birthplace, and will conclude with PEBCC’s first return to international competition since 2017 at the Llangollen Eisteddfod in Wales. (Spoilers: We won Young Choir of the World!)

2023 CONCERT CHOIR TOUR To San Diego

Concert Choir will tour to San Diego, California. Singers will begin the tour with a visit to the Maritime Museum, sightseeing in Old Town, performances at First Lutheran and All Souls La Jolla, as well as a potluck and friendship concert with the San Diego Children’s Choir. Concert Choir will also visit the aquarium, play at the beach and go on a whale watching cruise, with a concert at a retirement community before we go home. Follow our adventures!

2023 ENSEMBLE TOUR to COsta Rica

This summer, Ensemble and Ancora will go on tour to Costa Rica: Singers will first arrive in La Fortuna, where they will explore the town and the Arenal Volcano. Then, they travel by bus to Monteverde, where singers will see the Cloud Forest Reserve. Singers will spend the rest of their trip in San Jose. Stay tuned for exchanges with local choirs, sightseeing at La Paz Waterfall Gardens Reserve and Guayabo National Monument, as well as participation in the International Choral Festival for Peace. Follow our adventures!

2022 CONCERT CHOIR Tour to Seattle

Concert Choir will be touring to Seattle, Washington this summer. Singers will exchange with our friends the Columbia Children’s Choir, as well as perform in concert with them. Come along with us as we sing in the space needle, hike to a waterfall, and explore Pike Place Market!

2022 ENSEMBLE Tour to Denmark & germany

Follow Ensemble’s travels to Denmark and Germany - our first international tour in two years due to the Pandemic. Ensemble will start the tour in Herning, Denmark, where singers will homestay with our longtime friends, Midvest Pigekor. Ensemble will then travel to Hamburg, Germany to participate in a cultural exchange with Hamburger Mädchenchor and do some sightseeing. We will conclude the tour in Hochhausen, where Ensemble will be hosted by the Malick family and members of the local community.

2019 CONCERT CHOIR Tour to Seattle

Concert Choir will be touring to Seattle, Washington this summer. Singers will homestay with our friends the Columbia Children’s Choir, as well as perform in concert with them. Come along with us as we sing in the space needle, walk beneath the city, and hike to a waterfall!

2019 Ensemble Tour to Finland & Estonia

Ensemble has been invited to participate in the Estonian Laulupidu this summer. In Finland, we will be hosted by the superb choir Vox Aurea, based in Jyvaskyla, north of Helsinki. For the second half of our trip we will take the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn, Estonia, where we will be hosted by the ETV Girls Choir which has hosted Ensemble in the past.

2019 ecco Costa rica tour

Ecco had so much fun on tour!

2018 Ensemble Denmark and Germany Tour

Ensemble will be going to Germany and Denmark this summer on a concert tour which will include: Hannover (Germany), Herning and Aalborg (Denmark), Hamburg and Hochhausen (Germany). Our first stop will be in Hannover where we will do some sightseeing and perform at the Christuskirche on June 18th.  From Hannover, we will bus to Denmark where we will be hosted by 2 Danish choirs, Klarup Pigekor in Aalborg and MidtVest Pigekor in Herning.  We then plan to bus back to Hamburg, Germany, for a concert with the Hamburg Girls’ Choir on our way to Hochhausen where we will be hosted by the Malick family and members of the local community. Follow our adventures!

2017 Ensemble Tour to the UK

Ensemble is the flagship performing group of the Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir, representing the Choir in awe-inspiring international competitions and spectacular festivals. This Year, the group will travel to London, Cambridge, Sutton Coldfield, and Llangollen, as well as compete in the Eisteddfod, with its eight days of competitions and performances considered the largest music and poetry festival in Europe. Follow along here!

2016 Ensemble Tour to Spain: Bilbao, Barcelona, Valencia

Ensemble is getting ready for tour! Highlights of this trip will include a Joint concert with Cor Vivaldi and Copenhagen Choirs in Barcelona, a Full concert performance in Durango at Uda Kolean Bizi Festival, and a walking tour of Valencia and much more site seeing! Check back daily for tour updates.

2015 Ensemble Tour to Austria, Slovenia & Italy

Ensemble has been invited to participate in the Alta Pusteria International Choral Festival in Northern Italy this summer. We will fly to Graz, Austria, where we will be met and hosted by members of Singakademie. From Graz, we will bus to nearby Maribor, Slovenia, to be hosted by the acclaimed choir Carmina Slovenica. Our final stop will be at the Alta Pusteria Festival in the southern Tyrolean Alps.  This will be a non-competitive choral festival with 73 choirs participating from Australia, Bulgaria, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Macedonia, Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania, and South Africa.  We are the only American choir participating this year and are honored to be one of the 4 choirs performing in the large Gustav Mahler Concert Hall for the Opening Concert on the evening of our arrival.  We will have daily concerts up and down the Pusteria Valley – from mountaintop performances, to open-air concerts, to concerts in churches and music halls.  On the last full day, there will be a parade of all 73 choirs, culminating in a group performance of two pieces. 

2014 Ensemble Tour to Finland & Estonia

Ensemble has been invited to participate in the Estonian Laulupidu this summer. We will fly to Munich, Germany, and then on to Helsinki. In Finland, we will be hosted by the superb choir Vox Aurea, based in Jyvaskyla, north of Helsinki. We are also working with choral friends from the Juvenalia Choir in Helsinki. For the second half of our trip we will take the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn, Estonia. We will have a short visit with the Girls Choir from Jarva County in Estonia (which competed at Bratislava last summer). That choir is also planning to attend the Laulupidu, so it will give us a chance to practice our Estonian repertoire and to perform with them. Back in Tallin, we will be hosted by the ETV Girls Choir which has hosted Piedmont twice before at the Laulupidu.

2013 ENSEMBLE TOUR TO GERMANY, AUSTRIA, & SLOVAKIA

This summer, Ensemble will participate in exchanges with several choirs in Germany and Austria and then we will enter a competition in Slovakia! On Sunday afternoon, June 30, we will fly on Lufthansa from San Francisco to Frankfurt, Germany and then proceed by bus to Meiningen for an exchange with the Max-Reger-Musikschule, whom we have visited in the past. While there, we will have cultural exchanges, performances, and sightseeing. We are also planning a visit to Munich to visit the Munich Youth Choir before traveling by bus to Graz where we will be hosted by members of the Singakademie Graz, whom we hosted for the Golden Gate Festival last year. For the final leg of our trip we will drive from Graz to Bratislava, Slovakia to participate in the International Youth Music Festival sponsored by the Bratislava Music Agency. We will compete in several categories, including Children’s Choir and Contemporary Competitions. There will be a chance to perform and sightsee there as well.

2012 ENSEMBLE TOUR TO MEXICO

This year’s tour will take us to Mexico City and the surrounding area. Our itinerary includes stays in the colonial cities of San Miguel de Allende and Queretaro, before a final performance and visit in Mexico City. There will be many historic sights and cultural opportunities for us along the way including the ruins of Teotihuacan, Bellas Artes and the Arts and Crafts Market in San Miguel, plazas and gardens in Guanajuato, and exquisite churches and the murals of Diego Rivera in Queretaro.

2011 ENSEMBLE TOUR TO DENMARK & SWEDEN

Ensemble will be touring to Denmark and Sweden to participate in exchanges with several choirs in Denmark and to perform in Sweden. We will fly from San Francisco to Billund, Denmark and proceed by bus to Herning for an exchange with the MidVest Pigekor, based in the center of Jutland (the large peninsula north of Copenhagen). While there we will have workshops, performances, sightseeing and also reconnect with the Aarhus Pigekor whom we met at Kathaumixw last summer. From there we will bus to Copenhagen where we will be hosted by another children’s choir which will arrange both performances and sightseeing for us. Then another bus ride to Stockholm where we will be based at a youth hostel and have opportunities to perform at the Sofia Church and possibly the Uppsala Cathedral and to experience the sights of Stockholm.