A unique girl group is making (sound) waves this spring with their upcoming concert, ‘Wanting Memories’.

Treble choral group, Bella Voce provides a fun extracurricular for women and female-identifying students across campus by making their singing voice heard without the risk of taking a graded class or attending a high-stakes audition process. By learning multiple voice parts the women in this choir create friendships that last throughout their graduate and undergraduate years.

“Because singing in a choir is collaborative by nature. You are singing with the people next to you. You’re always listening to other things and we’re singing in different parts. So you’re collaborating with the people who are singing the same thing as you and you’re making sure that you are aligning and sounding good together, but then you are also listening to the other parts and making sure you are balanced,” said Bella Voce Board Member Emily Guagliardo.

The choral group also provides valuable choral conducting experience to undergraduate and graduate music students who are in pursuit of conducting choirs or orchestras as a potential career path.

Founded by five best friends–Emily Guagliardo, Bronwyn Clagett, Elise Bernhard, Kaylee Mancuso, and Madison Berg–after a choral recruiting event at a local high school in Mississippi, the club has soared to new heights gaining new members each semester.

While Bella Voce’s focus tends to be on pop and contemporary songs turned into choral music, oftentimes in collaboration with student composers like Jacob Fontenot, the student organization does not shy away from difficult pieces like ‘Singkap Siaga’ and ‘In Her Image’

You can experience Bella Voce’s concert, ‘Wanting Memories’, this Friday, April 11 at 7:30 p.m. at University Presbyterian Church.