Young Singers of the Palm Beaches is Palm Beach County's award-winning, community-based children's choir.

Comprising students from 104 schools, the choir rehearses at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts and performs twice a year on the main stage.

Recently, 15 students were selected through a competition to travel to Utah in February to sing alongside the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

"For a student to be selected for this competition in Utah is outstanding, said the choir's executive director Beth Clark. More than 3,000 kids auditioned for only 900 slots."

Students in grades 2 to 12 learn choral singing and vocal technique, posture, breathing, diction, vowel articulation, music reading and sight singing.

The repertoire is selected by artistic director D. Shawn Berry and every year the choir performs in an annual talent show.

Local students, Jocelyn Wood, 9, a fourth-grader at St. Ann Catholic School in West Palm Beach, and Hunter-Lynn Bhagwanden, 11, a fifth-grader at St. Luke Catholic School in Palm Springs, are "super excited" to be selected and to travel to Utah.

Jocelyn's mother, Nancy Wood, a pharmaceutical saleswoman, said, "Mr. Berry, the artistic director, is amazing. I give him a lot of credit. He works the students hard, but teaches them a lot."

"We're very honored that Jocelyn was selected," she said.

Milly Bhagwanden, Hunter-Lynn's mother, is also honored that her daughter was chosen to sing with the Tabernacle choir.

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