Grammy Award-winning Ragazzi Boys Chorus, Silicon Valley, provides outstanding musical education and performance opportunities for boys and young men ages 5 to 18. The largest boys’ chorus in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ragazzi serves over 230 choristers in six tiered levels. Under the leadership of Artistic and Executive Director Kent Jue, Ragazzi shapes the lives of boys from diverse backgrounds, developing tenacious and confident young musicians who pursue choral arts of the highest caliber together.
Recent performance highlights include singing at the 2025 American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) National Conference, the 2024 Western Region ACDA conference, and as a host choir at the 2023 Chorus America conference in San Francisco. Ragazzi is a prominent collaborator in the Bay Area, providing vocalists for such notable organizations as the San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Symphony, Opera San Jose, Symphony Silicon Valley, and the Stanford University Symphonic Chorus, among others. Recent collaborations include Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem with the San Francisco Symphony and Opera San Jose’s production of Tosca.
The group tours throughout the United States and internationally to widen chorus members’ cultural and musical horizons and deepen Ragazzi’s reputation for performance excellence. The chorus has concertized in historic venues including Carnegie Hall in New York City, St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice, MuTH Concert Hall in Vienna, and the Sydney Opera House.
