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The Piedmont Children's Choir (now the Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir) was founded in 1982 by Artistic Director Robert Geary and founding Executive Director Susan Rahl as the Piedmont Boy's Choir. It began with 22 boys and rehearsed in Piedmont, California. The non-profit organization still maintains a separate boys training choir program but has grown to include approximately 320 boys and girls between the ages of four and sixteen. Its office relocated from Piedmont to Oakland, California in early 2009.

The PEBCC consists of eight choir groups in the Training Department and four choir groups in the Performing Department. The touring treble choir Ensemble, has won gold medals and taken prizes in several international competitions including the International Choral Olympics (Linz, Austria 2000), International Choral Kathaumixw (Vancouver, BC, Canada 1992, 1996), International Children’s & Youth Choir Festival (Giessen, Germany 1997), International Seghizzi Choral Competition (Gorizia, Italy 2003), Des Moines International Children’s Choir Festival (Iowa, USA 1997), International Festival of Choral Song (Miedzyzdroje, Poland 1998,), Grand Prix Choral Festival (St. Petersburg, Russia 2008), and International Children’s Choral Festival (Hong Kong, China 2006). The PEBCC has commissioned a number of new works for children's choir and SATB choir and has won the Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming.

The PEBCC sponsored and produced the Golden Gate International Children’s Choral Festival (1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2006). In 2009 the Festival expanded to include Youth choirs.

1. www.piedmontchoirs.org 2. www.sfvolti.org