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BYU SINGERS

Brigham Young University Singers is an exciting choir with impressive voices and a wide range of styles. Conducted by Andrew Crane, the group performs pieces from nearly every musical genre as well as many original works written or arranged for the choir.

On the international stage BYU Singers has won overall first place honors in the following European competitions: World Choir Festival and Competition on Musicals (2025, Thessaloniki, Greece); Fleischmann International Trophy Competition at the Cork International Choral Festival (2024, Cork, Ireland); International Stasys Šimkus Choir Competition (2022, Klaipėda, Lithuania); and Aegis carminis (2021, Koper, Slovenia).

They have given concerts in some of the most prestigious venues in the world, including Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Sydney Opera House and Town Hall, the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, the Hanoi Opera House, the Kapella in St. Petersburg, the Musikverein in Vienna, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. They have traveled throughout the United States and to 28 countries including Russia, Germany, Greece, Italy, England, Egypt, Australia, Ghana, Ireland, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Baltic states. The choir was the United States representative at the Fourth World Choral Symposium in 1996, performed at the inaugural conference of the National Collegiate Choral Organization in 2006, and has appeared on numerous occasions at state, national, and regional conferences of the American Choral Directors Association, National Association for Music Education, and National Collegiate Choral Organization.

The ensemble was featured on national television in four programs created for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and has released 10 full-length solo albums. Their online content consistently ranks among the most streamed for American university choirs. BYU Singers was founded in 1984 by Ronald Staheli.

Consisting of around 40 students pursuing a variety of graduate and undergraduate degrees in such areas as computer science, accounting, law, engineering, and music, BYU Singers originates in the School of Music of the College of Fine Arts and Communications at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. BYU is one of the nation’s largest private universities with an enrollment of more than 30,000 students from all parts of the United States and 120 foreign countries.