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The Ragazzi Boys Chorus is a boys' and young men's chorus in the San Francisco Bay Area San Francisco Bay Area and is known for winning a Grammy Award for Best Classical Album in 2000 for its participation in Perséphone with the San Francisco Symphony. The chorus was formed in 1987 with 6 boys, and it now includes more than 170 singers from 86 schools in 26 Bay Area communities including San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. The choir has placed highly in numerous international competitions. It also auditions the most singers to either national or state American Choral Directors Association honor choirs each year. Since its founding, Ragazzi has performed regularly with the San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Symphony, Opera San Jose, West Bay Opera, Lawrence Pech Dance Company, Peninsula Symphony, Masterworks Chorale and the Stanford University Symphonic Chorus among others. ==Tours== Ragazzi regularly tours in the United States and abroad. Ragazzi has toured internationally in Canada (1990), Russia (1992), Eastern Europe (1995), Italy (1998), Japan (1999), the British Isles (2001) where the choir won the fourth prize at the International Llangollen Eistedfodd, Spain and Portugal (2004), and Australia and New Zealand (2007). In summer 2008 Ragazzi was chosen to participate in the Kathaumixw Festival in British Columbia. They were second place finalists in two different age group categories. In the summer of 2010, the choir traveled to French area of Canada (i.e. Quebec and Montreal), where they participated in the yearly jazz festival. They also went to the island of Cuba in 2011 and, Los Angeles, California in the summer of 2012. They also went to Seoul, South Korea and participated in the World Vision 2013 International Children's Choir Festival. Domestically Ragazzi has toured Minnesota where they attended AMERICAFEST (2003), Oregon where they attended PICCFEST (2005) as a feature choir, Montana where they attended the International Choral Festival〔()〕 (2006), and Arizona (2009). In July 2009 Ragazzi's YME toured the San Francisco East Bay, attending the Golden Gate International Children's Choral Festival,. The group won the following awards: 2nd Place—Contemporary Music 2nd Place—Youth Vocal Solo (awarded to chorister) 3rd Place—Historical Music 3rd Place—Folk Music 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ragazzi Boys Chorus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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