Rockport Music’s Cape Ann Youth Chorus provides a comprehensive musical experience in an inclusive and supportive environment for young singers ages 8 and up. Singers participate in weekly rehearsals, concerts at different community events and at the Shalin Liu Performance Center. Mentorship applications will be available for interested advanced singers. The vision for Rockport Music education programming is to provide engaging and interactive programming of all musical genres throughout the community to encourage curiosity, participation and creativity through music and the arts.

Singers in the chorus can expect to join a wonderfully supportive community that values high artistic excellence and diverse musical programming that reflects the Cape Ann region within a global context.

Rehearsal Schedule

Mondays at 4-5:15 p.m.
(Starting September 9, 2024)
Location: Shalin Liu Performance Center, third floor
37 Main Street, Rockport, MA 01966

Tuition*: $300 per year
(includes 30 weeks of rehearsals and approximately 4 concerts)

Kristina Martin has been a lifelong singer, starting with school, church and community children’s choirs, then on to university and professional ensembles.  She studied opera performance at the Boston University School of Performing Arts, and voice, music, education, and communication disorders at Brigham Young University. She has performed with the North Shore Music Theater, Back Bay Chorale, Firehouse Theater, Gloucester Stage Co., Washington, D.C. Opera Co. at the Kennedy Center, Kansas City Lyric Opera and Symphony Orchestra, Springfield, MO Opera, and various educational outreach programs. A longtime resident of Rockport with her husband and 3 daughters, she has taught chorus and performing arts at all levels of Rockport Public Schools and at the Waring School in Beverly, has maintained a private voice studio, prepared choruses with the Annisquam Village Players and is the longtime director of the youth choir at the First Congregational Church of Rockport.  She is a member of the American Choral Directors’ Association and the National Association of Teachers of Singing.  She is a co-founder and director of the summer choral/arts program, Cape Ann Arts Alive.

Thomas Smoker is a singer, pianist, and arranger who has earned a graduate degree in Vocal Performance from The Boston Conservatory. This fall he started as the new Choral Director for the Rockport Public Middle & High Schools, in Rockport, MA. Before that he served as an Assistant Professor of Voice at Berklee College of Music, as well as an adjunct faculty member in the performing arts department at Endicott College where he directed music ensembles and taught performing arts classes. Thomas has over 15 years of experience in performing, teaching, coaching, directing, leading workshops and symposiums, and is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), the  A cappella Educators Association (AEA), as well as the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). He regularly music directs, composes and arranges for community and high school musicals, concerts and special events. Thomas also maintains a healthy performance career in opera, oratorio, musical theater, and solo concerts & cabarets as he is often sought after throughout New England and Mid- Atlantic.