Prelude Ensemble

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Register for the upcoming season here. After you register we will contact you with audition information.

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 September 13

PERFORMANCES

Friday, November 27, 2026: Tree Lighting Concert
Saturday, December 19, 2026: Presto Holiday Concert 1pm and 5pm
Sunday, April 25, 2027: Spring Concert 4pm

Other area performances will be announced as added

Tuition for 2026-27 Season
$300

Tuition includes a $25 family donation to the Al Larson Cultural Center 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!

The Al Larson Prairie Center for the Arts is now the AL LARSON CULTURAL CENTER!

Looking for the Prairie Center? You're in the right place! We're excited to launch our new name, the Al Larson Cultural Center, effective June 20, 2026.

Al Larson Cultural Center

Prelude Ensemble

*The Al Larson Prairie Center for the Arts is now the AL LARSON CULTURAL CENTER!*

Looking for the Prairie Center? You're in the right place! We're excited to launch our new name, the Al Larson Cultural Center, effective June 20, 2026.

The Al Larson Prairie Center for the Arts is now the AL LARSON CULTURAL CENTER!