Drakensberg Boys Choir to scout talent in Pretoria
This is the only choir school on the African continent, being a boarding school that uses choral music as a significant vehicle for holistic education.
The Drakensberg Boys Choir is searching South Africa, including Pretoria, for boys between the ages of 9-14, with potentially great singing voices, to join the world’s best boy choir.
Worldwide there are a number of boy choirs, but the Drakensberg Boys Choir is unique in that it is the only choir school on the African continent, being a boarding school that uses choral music as a significant vehicle for holistic education.
The school (which opened in 1967) is nestled in one of the world’s major heritage sites, the mighty Okhahlamba Mountain range, and provides, not only training and performances in choral, contemporary and pop singing but also African folklore music and choreographed movement.
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