Support from the California Arts Council will help to sustain and enhance VOX Femina’s current programming and operations, paving the way for continued stability and growth. The grant will support VOX’s goals to continue to commission new works and perform quality choral music for an expanded and diverse audience; to expand VOX’s Music Education programs serving under resourced public school students; to continue to diversify the Board, staff and singer membership; and to engage in dynamic collaborations with other artists and arts organizations.
VOX has performed with the Colburn Orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, at the Valley Performing Arts Center; the LA Philharmonic and the LA Master Chorale in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at the Shrine Auditorium; and with the LA Philharmonic in a Disney Hall performance of Gustav Holst’s The Planets, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. VOX was awarded the San Francisco Classical Voice Audience Choice Award for the Best Choral Performance of the 2019-2020 season in the LA area. In 2024, VOX was awarded the Margaret Hillis Award for Artistic and Organizational Achievement by Chorus America, and made its debut at Carnegie Hall with National Concerts.
VOX’s season is comprised of three subscription concerts (at the Colburn School’s Zipper Concert Hall and First Congregational Church of Los Angeles), three free community concerts, an informal cabaret night, and numerous guest appearances at events throughout greater Los Angeles. Since the pandemic, VOX has continued to live stream its content in order to serve the audience gained through digital content, and to allow for greater accessibility to our concerts.
VOX’s Music Education Program serves public school children in underserved L.A. neighborhoods with a four-tiered program: the Concert for Youth (to which public school students are bused to a VOX concert during school hours), the Youth Choir Festival (a performance clinic for up to six high school choirs), the Choral Scholar Program (offering qualified high school applicants the opportunity to rehearse and perform with VOX, including one-on-one mentorship by VOX’s Assistant Conductor for 12 weeks, with participation in VOX’s June concert marking the culmination of the program), and the Justice Choir (a 14-week program teaching the fundamentals of choral singing to students at schools with little or no music programming.

