With great joy I learned that you are starting a School with music at its core. My experience with the Pacific Boychoir and their excellent leadership is unforgotten. I was very impressed how quickly the Choir could adjust to the difficult parts in the War Requiem by Benjamin Britten. I simply love the idea to set a good example with a new school. In the past I had the joy of founding the children choir of the Dresden Philharmonic and later on the one of the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. If parents and teachers would know how much easier it is to educate children who are disciplined through music making the whole world would be full of children choirs.

— Maestro Kurt Masur, Music Director Emeritus, New York Philharmonic. Masur conducted Britten's War Requiem with the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus.

Contributing mightily was the Oakland-based Pacific Boychoir, whose musical sophistication and quality of sound were astonishing. The 55 plus singers not only nailed the complex rhythmic pattern exactly, but did so in perfectly coordinated swaying movements.

— Chris Pasles, Los Angeles Times; re: concert at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with Dmitri Hvorostovsky and the Philharmonia of Russia, Constantine Orbelian conducting "Songs of the War Years" in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles

Standing in straight lines behind the orchestra is the Pacific Boychoir, prepared by its founding director, visionary Kevin Fox. Similar to the Vienna Boys Choir in music education and performance skill, this Oakland-based Academy can swell with pride to have been selected for this leg of the Hvorostovsky tour.

— San Francisco Sentinel, reviewing the same concert, but performed a week later in San Francisco, Davies Symphony Hall

The sound that these boys produce is of a quality that I have not heard in any group of young singers performing in the States at present. This is combined with secure intonation, sensitive blend, strong musicianship, and a rigid discipline which never inhibits the pure joy that these boys invest in their singing. I am sure that over the next few years, the Boychoir and their Music Director Kevin Fox will become even more in demand as performers throughout the world.

— Maestro Donald Palumbo, Chorus Master, Lyric Opera of Chicago

The group boasts youngsters who have been carefully trained both physically and vocally in the art of singing. They're not just gathering to sing and have fun; they really are serious about music making.

— Maestro Vance George, Director Emeritus, San Francisco Symphony Chorus

This is an impressive young ensemble, poised and well-trained, with riveted focus on their director and the music.

— Bruce Lamott, Director, Philharmonia Baroque Chorale, in San Francisco Classical Voice

The sheer sonic experience was chilling. The full, powerful sound - clear and in-tune - nearly brought tears to my eyes...For me, the most compelling part of the performance was the ninth movement, "Blagosloven yesi, Ghospodi" (Blessed art Thou, O Lord). This is a dramatic telling of Christ's resurrection, in which separate quatrains narrating the events are introduced by the verse, "Blessed art Thou, O Lord; teach me Thy statutes." Toward the end, this refrain gives way to the doxology. The choir's performance was enthralling. Fox perfectly balanced the drones and hums in individual voice parts against the dynamic parts in the others, masterfully conjuring up the sense of divine, cosmic mystery described in this movement.

— William Quillin, San Francisco Classical Voice; re: Rachmaninoff Vespers performed at St Augustine Church, Oakland.