“I remember my first rehearsal so vividly, sitting in the front row, intimidated by the group of girls surrounding me. But as soon as we hit the downbeat of the first piece, my fear was replaced by an inexplicable sensation, hearing the chords and harmonies of 50 young voices coming together. Years later when I came across Eric Whitacre’s Ted Talk, I found the exact words to describe that feeling, ‘In my entire life I had seen in black and white and suddenly everything was in shocking Technicolor.‘”