Beginning with a young boys choir in 1975, the Academy Choirs have reached out to the world through concert tours, recordings, radio and television broadcasts sharing their music with enthusiastic audiences. The Powell River Boys Choir has sang at the XIV International Society of Music Education conference in Warsaw, Poland, the International Eisteddfod (Wales) and have toured in Germany, Poland, Austria, England, Canada, Mexico and the USA. Powell River Boys Choir have won many prestigious awards including first and second prizes in the CBC National Amateur Choir Competition in Children’s Choir and Contemporary Music categories and have been finalist in the European Broadcast Corporation’s “Let the People Sing” competition.
Walter Martella
For the past two seasons Walter Martella has directed the Powell River
Chorus. Mr. Martella is a graduate of the University of Victoria and has
studied conducting with Don James and Elmer Iseler. He is an accomplished
trumpet soloist, jazz pianist. As well as conducting the Chorus he also is
director of two Powell River Academy of Music choirs and the Powell River
Community Band.
Beginning with a young boys choir in 1975, the Academy Choirs have reached out to the world through concert tours, recordings, radio and television broadcasts sharing their music with enthusiastic audiences. The Powell River Boys Choir has sang at the XIV International Society of Music Education conference in Warsaw, Poland, the International Eisteddfod (Wales) and have toured in Germany, Poland, Austria, England, Canada, Mexico and the USA. Powell River Boys Choir have won many prestigious awards including first and second prizes in the CBC National Amateur Choir Competition in Children’s Choir and Contemporary Music categories and have been finalist in the European Broadcast Corporation’s “Let the People Sing” competition. 
Walter Martella