Tour Choirs form strong bonds of friendship and trust that infuses the choir with a sense of shared purpose and ensemble unity.

In addition, students who share a tour choir experience from the first rehearsal at home to the return trip, experience much musical and personal growth and well as growing in self-confidence and independence having had the opportunity to

• Broaden world view through cultural exchange
• Learn from the opportunity to work with and learn from a different conductor or clinician
• Learn to try new things, including performance venues, collaborate with choristers from other places, traveling as a group, being away from home, even food!
• Hear and sing new repertoire they may not have another opportunity to hear or sing
• Function as musical and community ambassadors for their choir, state, or country
• Deepen old and discover new friendships within their own choir