2024-2025 Season

Calling all young singers grades 5 through 8

If you love to sing, we’d love to invite you to audition for Cantate Young Voices.
CANTATE means SING in Latin, and that’s what we love to do – SING!

AUDITIONS for the Spring 2025 concert will be held November of 2024 by appointment at Second Presbyterian Church in Carlisle.
Email [email protected] for more information. We can’t wait to meet you.

You can tell from that performance how much we LOVE to sing. Cantate Carlisle boasts a dynamic youth choir annually at our Spring concert, and it is always the best performance of the year. Wouldn’t you like to take the stage at Carlisle Theatre? Click the link above to register for Cantate Young Voices and schedule your audition.

REHEARSALS: Tuesdays from 5-6:30pm, January through April, at Second Presbyterian Church.

DRESS REHEARSAL & CONCERTS: May 3rd (Dress Rehearsal) with Performances May 3rd and 4th, 2025.

The fee for the entire season of Cantate Young Voices is only $50. Please inquire about scholarships, as well as discounts for families with multiple singers enrolled.

As a singer in Cantate Young Voices, you will receive: 

  • A Coaching Session with our instructors to prepare for the audition
  • Four months of small and large group instruction from our artistic staff
  • CYV Concert Shirt
  • Copies of the audition piece and all of the concert music

Have a singer grades K-4?
Visit the Primer Choir audition page.

Meet our CYV Director, Janine Shuey:

Ms. Shuey isn’t just the director of Cantate Young Voices; she is the music and chorus teacher at Eagle View Middle School. She teaches students in grades 6 through 8, which makes her perfect to work with you in this auditioned choir.

She was raised in Collegeville, PA and arrived in the area as a student at Messiah University. She earned her degree in music education with a vocal concentration and cello. After graduation, she began her teaching career in Chambersburg schools.

She first came to Cantate when our Artistic Director Michelle Trefren needed a cellist. She then auditioned as a singer. The following year, she assisted with CYV, finally taking the helm in 2023. She’s excited to continue serving as your director.

Fun fact: Ms. Shuey will not (maybe cannot???) drive stick shifts.

If you need to reach out to Ms. Shuey, just send her an e-mail at [email protected]