VOCI Youth Chorus (Voices of Channel Islands)
VOCI Youth Chorus (formerly PVSD Chorus) is an afterschool program for elementary and middle school students in the Pleasant Valley School District. Students rehearse once a week throughout the school year, with performance opportunities that may include an on-campus concert of the semester’s repertoire for friends and family; holiday caroling; the Camarillo Christmas Parade; virtual performances; collaborating with other music groups; and more.
Sabrina Moreno
Music Director
Sabrina Moreno is an alumnus of Santa Paula High School, and a Soprano vocalist based in Santa Paula, California. Her interests include vocal studies and technique, choral works and performance, opera and musical theatre works and performance, jazz voice, classical vocal works and repertoire, and modern voice techniques and music.
She has attended Ventura College, San Francisco State University and California State University Channel Islands where she studies Music and Performing Arts, with emphasis on Vocal Pedagogy, Music Theory, Choral Techniques and Performance. She has studied under talented professors/directors such as Brent Wilson, Tara Eisenhower, Luvi Avendano, Elizabeth Helms, Bob Lawson, Vance George, Dr. Nikolas Nackley, Dr. Christine Brandes, Dr. David Xiques and Dr. Kuanfen Liu.
Sabrina has been performing on stage for seven years in productions such as “Alice in Wonderland”, “Tarzan”, “Die Fledermaus”, “Riders to the Seas” and “The Mikado”. She has performed in large choral works such as Dan Forest's Jubilate Deo and Randall Thompson's Frostiana, and was a featured soloist in the world premiere performance of the "Channel Island Orchestral Suite" by Ashley Broder. Sabrina has also been featured by Channel Islands Choral Association, Ventura College Chamber Singers and Choir, SF State Opera and Orchestra Association, and the SFSU University Chorus.
Sabrina is passionate about helping develop the next generation of youth through a music education. She has volunteered with the Santa Paula High School Performing Arts Department in their Choir and Theatre programs since 2017 to the present. She has previously worked on “Not Another Shakespeare Festival”, “The Weirdest Honeymoon Ever”, “Peter Pan, A Musical Adventure” and “Cinderella”.
She gives private voice lessons for all voice types and in different vocal styles. She is pursuing a Masters and PhD in music.
Dorrie Kelly
Music Director
Dorrie Kelly is a music educator, pianist and vocalist. She has over fifteen years of experience teaching general music and choir to students from Kindergarten to 8th grade, and is very excited to be co-directing Voices of Channel Islands! Originally from the east coast, she received her B.S. in Music Education from Hofstra University and is currently working on her Masters of Music Education.
As a teacher and enthusiast for both the Orff-Schulwerk and Kodaly methods of teaching, Mrs. Kelly is committed to helping students find their inner-musician while also leaving room for lots of creativity and curiosity in the music setting. She enjoys helping students learn the language of music, and reacting to the magic and beauty that happens when students really start to *get it!*
In addition to teaching, Dorrie has extensive experience as a performer. She served as the primary accompanist for Hofstra’s University Chorus and Master Chorale, performed in the Rhoda Pinsley Levin Honors Recital, the William B. Rosencras Honor’s Recital, and was winner of Hofstra University’s Concerto Competition. She has served as director of music for several musical theater productions as well as church choirs. This past season, she began her work as as collaborative pianist for Ventura College Community Choir.
Dorrie lives in Camarillo with her husband and three children. Aside from making music, she enjoys doing arts and crafts with her little ones, attending musical theater, and traveling with her family.
Check out the song the chorus recorded as their Spring 2021 project! It’s “Sisi Kushangalia” by Victor C. Johnson and was part of Channel Islands Choral Association’s Spring 2021 virtual concert, “Into the Light: Celebrating Black Composers in Choral Music.”