Chor Leoni and the young men of PROMYS during their October 2006 workshop. Photo by William Ting.

Chor Leoni debuted its exciting educational outreach program called PROMYS - PROgram for Mentoring Young Singers in 2005.

Each year since then Chor Leoni Men’s Choir accepts up to a dozen of the best young men choral singers from high school to rehearse with them and peform as part of the choir’s Remembrance Day concert.

The ideal PROMYS student will be:

• one of the top choral students in his school choir
• have at least two years choral experience
• Possesses strong musical skills
• has an in-tune voice
• has an ability and willingness to learn his part on his own or with his teacher
• loves choral singing

If that sounds like you, please discuss it with your high school choir teacher and make your application by the end of September. Preference will be given to singers in Grades 11 and 12. Twelve singers will be chosen from those applying.

If you have young men in your choirs who you think would be interested and benefit from participating in the PROMYS programme, please email PROMYS [at] chorleoni.org. Register online here.

PROMYS participants

2012

Back row, left to right: Jerome Tan (Windemere), Matt Alvernaz (Killarney), Aksel Taylor (Burnaby Central), Carrie Tennant, Alex Kim (Point Grey), Min Soo Uim (Tupper), Oliver Robertson (Tupper), Issac Sejbjerg (Burnaby Central),
Front row: JP Radalet (UBC), Tommy Vo (Burnaby Central), Alvin Lin (Magee), Diane Loomer, C.M., Jiro Dumrique(Tupper), Ian Hill (Point Grey)

2011

Aksel Taylor (Burnaby Central), Cole Grabinsky (Burnaby Central), Isaiah Bemrose-Fetter (Prince of Wales), (Diane Loomer), (Kevin Zakresky), Zainen Suzuki (Burnaby Central), James Whitlock (graduate of Argyle), Nicholas Burns (Burnaby Central), James Eastwood (Kwantlen College), Roger Tsui (Burnaby Central), John-Paul Radelet (Home school), Anton Siedlecki (Gleneagle)

2010
Graham Au-Lange (Burnaby Central Secondary), Isaiah Bemrose-Fetter (Prince of Wales), Daniel Broderick (Archbishop Carney), Nicholas Burns (Burnaby Central), Cole Grabinsky (Burnaby Central), Colin Jones (University Hill), Kevin Lin (Burnaby Central), Scott Murphy (Burnaby Central), John-Paul Radelet (Magee), Zainen Suzuki (Burnaby Central), Aaron Wong (Magee)

2009
Graham Au-Lange (Burnaby Central Secondary), Dennis James Bastillo (St. Thomas Aquinas), Logan Drackett (Argyle Secondary), Daniel Gilmour (Argyle Secondary), Victor Hsu (R.E. Mountain Secondary), Thomas Lamont (New Westminster Secondary), Kevin Lin (Burnaby Central Secondary), John-Paul Radelet (Home School), Zainen Suzuki (Burnaby Central Secondary), Jun Qi (Jason) Wang (Prince of Wales Secondary), Aaron Wong (Magee Secondary), Cliff Wong (Windemere Secondary), Justin Woo (Eric Hamber Secondary)

2008
Douglas Au-Lange (Burnaby Secondary), Josh de Guzman (Eric Hamber Secondary), Thomas Lamont (New Westminster Secondary), Christopher Li (Eric Hamber Secondary), Ezra Park (Windemere Secondary), Zainen Suzuki (Burnaby Secondary School) ,Cliff Wong (Windemere Secondary), Edward Wong (Eric Hamber Secondary)

2007
Sky Kao (Burnaby Central Secondary School), Keith Sinclair (Capilano College), Edmund Natividad (Churchill
Secondary School), Harry Ahn and Robert Mackin-Lang (Collingwood Secondary School), Buddy Bailey and Jason Costa (Windermere Secondary School)

2006
Allan Chang, Corey Hollett, Noel Hollett, Woong Hee Lee, Max Liu, Jamie Turner, Mathew Cownden, Damon Guy, Justin Hamilton, Ben James-Groom, Chris Kilgore, David Monkman, Mark Russell, Jesse Setka, Clayton Sheldon, Cedric Spry, Toshi Uyeda, Brendan Walsh, Paul Winkelmans, Richard Zhou.

2005
Stephen Baker, Corey Hollett, Noel Hollett, Sean Jackman, David McHugh, Jamie Turner, Michael Allison, J.C. de Vos, Chris Kilgore, Jesse Lupini, Dan McPeake, Jesse Setka, Cedric Spry, Brendan Walsh, Paul Winkelmans.