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.
Jesus Gonzalez
Music Director
Jesus Gonzalez is a music enthusiast who fell in love with music at a young age. He was born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States in the late 1980s. He studied at Ventura College. A recent alum of California State University Channel Islands he earned a B.A. in Performing Arts with a music emphasis. He studied voice with instructors Brent Wilson from Ventura College and Dr. KuanFen Liu at CSUCI. For more than ten years, he directed music at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in the city of Oxnard. He currently provides music lessons in voice, guitar and piano to his community.
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.”