The MBOA YOUTH CHOIR

National Youth Choir of Cameroon

The National Youth Choir is an initiative of the Association of Friends of the Madrigal Choir of Cameroon. It was created in October 2019 with an essentially educational, artistic and experimental objective:

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• To offer young people from all regions of Cameroon an opportunity to have a quality musical and artistic experience and to improve their skills,

• To contribute to the individual development of each singer, enabling them to pursue their own musical and choral journey, and thus to lay the foundations for a professional framework for choral practice in Cameroon,

• To work towards the development of choral music, especially among young people.

• To establish a creative collaboration between young singers from different regions of Cameroon through the dissemination of traditional songs collected and arranged by the association.

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The Choir consists of 32 young people aged 18 to 28, from all regions of Cameroon and recruited through auditions.

The direction is entrusted to a young, trained and dynamic Cameroonian conductor, under the supervision of a representative from the global choral singing network A Cœur Joie.

The choir's work is organized around a week-long workshop in August and 7 weekends of repertoire work and vocal and artistic training.

Public concerts are organized every year in different cities across the country, allowing young singers to immediately experience performing on stage and the general public to get to know the choir.

The repertoire consists largely of traditional Cameroonian songs, enhanced by arrangements adapted for choral singing.