Prelude Ensemble

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Open to students in grades 3 to 6 by audition, this choir trains our youngest singers. Focus is on singing technique, beginning sight-singing skills (solfege and rhythm training), unison and beginning two-part singing, and developing a life-long joy and love of singing.

REHEARSALS
Sundays, 4:30pm - 5:45pm beginning Sept 7th, 2025.

PERFORMANCES

Presto! Holiday Concert- Saturday, December 20 at 1pm & 5pm
- Schaumburg Choral Program with the Schaumburg Youth Symphony Orchestra
Spring Concert- Sunday, April 26 at 7pm
- Schaumburg Choral Program

Other area performances will be announced as added

Prelude is not currently auditioning.

For more information, please contact Donna Robertelli via email or call 847-923-3630

Tuition for 2025-26 Season
$300

Tuition includes a $25 family donation to the Prairie Center Arts Foundation.
Installment plans, Financial Assistance, and Scholarships available.
Families with more than one child enrolled in Schaumburg Youth Arts Programs receive a $25 discount for each additional child after one child is paid in full.
Each student receives an SCP t-shirt.

DIRECTOR ERIN KOZAKIS

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Erin Kozakis is an enthusiastic and passionate music educator and performer. She is the general music teacher and choir director at Prospect Elementary School in Hinsdale/ Clarendon Hills District 181. A strong believer that singing is the basis of all music learning, she specializes in teaching through active music-making, weaving Orff and Kodaly principles together in the classroom.

With over 10 years of teaching experience, Ms. Kozakis previously taught at Hoffman School in Glenview, where she taught general music and led a choir of over 125 students, and at Franzen and Benson Schools in Itasca, IL.

Equally at home in the classroom or on the stage, Erin also serves as principal bassoonist with the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra and has performed with the Elgin, Rockford and Quad City Symphonies, and the Chicago Civic Orchestra.

Ms. Kozakis has specialized training in the Orff and Kodaly methods of music education, as well as children’s choral conducting and instructional technology. She holds a BM from the Eastman School of Music, a MM from DePaul University, and a MMEd from Northern Illinois University.

A native of Geneseo, IL, Ms. Kozakis currently lives in Schaumburg with her husband, Michael, and two children. She can often be found on the bike trails of Schaumburg with her family, often singing as they ride!