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BCCO seats ~160 singers on the stage at our concerts. Our membership is capped at 240 singers, and each singer sits out one concert in our Friday/Saturday/Sunday concert series. We don’t let the chorus get larger because then some singers would have to sit out twice. We maintain waiting lists for sections that are full. Please note that a section’s waiting list is closed to new entries if it exceeds 30 names.

Current Status: All four waiting lists are open (soprano, alto, tenor, bass)

If you would like to join an open waiting list, please Contact Us to send us a request. Include your name, voice section, email address, and phone number. Within a few days, you will receive a confirmation that you’ve been added to waiting list. Later, as your name nears the top of the list, we will send you an alert so you can be on the watch for a future invitation.

During our winter and summer registration periods, we follow this procedure if a section has a vacancy:

  • we invite singers from the top of the waiting list in order via an email.
  • you have one week to respond to the invitation. We will also phone you if we haven’t heard from you in a few days.
  • if you accept the invitation, we will follow with registration information.
  • if you decline the invitation, you are removed from the waiting list (or placed at the bottom at your request).
  • if we don’t hear from you by the one-week deadline, you are removed from the waiting list.

If the list for your section is presently closed, you may wish to consider these other Bay Area choruses:

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