Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir

The internationally acclaimed Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir (PEBCC) offers 350 children ages 5-18 throughout San Francisco’s East Bay an outstanding program of music training and choral performance. Launched in 1982 by founding Executive Director Susan Rahl with Artistic Director Robert Geary, the choir has performed with Joyce DiDonato, the Mark Morris Dance Group, Oakland Symphony, San Francisco Opera, and Volti, and at conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, Chorus America, and the Organization of American Kodály Educators. In addition to vigorous programming of innovative new music commissions and premieres, the choir is a leading force in international choral activities, with far-reaching collaborations, high marks in competitions world-wide, and the establishment of the Golden Gate International Children’s and Youth Choral Festival in 1991. In 2024, the choir earned the coveted “Young Choir of the World” title at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in Wales.