American Boychoir School

American Boychoir School
The bus of the American Boychoir School at Saint Joseph's Seminary
Address
174 Lambertville Hopewell Road Hopewell, New Jersey  United States
Information
Type	Private, non-sectarian boarding school
Motto	Brothers, Sing On!
Established	1937 (1937)
Website	www.americanboychoir.org

The American Boychoir School is a boarding/day middle school located in Hopewell, New Jersey, and the home of the American Boychoir. The school serves boys in grades 4–8, many of whom come from across the United States and from many countries. It is one of only two boychoir boarding schools in the United States, the other being Saint Thomas Choir School in New York City. The school was fictionalized in the 2014 film Boychoir.

In 2012, the choir's longtime home, Albermarle in Princeton, was sold due to financial shortfalls and the choir moved to the Princeton Center for the Arts & Education (formerly St. Joseph's Seminary) for the 2013 and 2014 school years.

On April 10, 2015, the school filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy stating it needed $350,000 to finish the school year and $3,000,000 to come out of bankruptcy and open for the next academic year. On April 14, 2015 the school announced it would end the school year early, on May 17, instead of reaching the normal time for graduation, the second week of June.

The school reopened on September 1, 2015, and has continued to operate during the 2015-16 school year while working to satisfy its financial obligations and emerge from the Chapter 11 bankruptcy stable and able to move forward successfully. School operations were moved to the campus of Rambling Pines Summer Camp, at 174 Lambertville Hopewell Road, Hopewell, New Jersey, site of the former Princeton Latin Academy. Rambling Pines provides classroom and office space, gymnasium space, and almost 200 acres of playing fields.

The American Boychoir performs in concerts across the United States and at international venues. On average, the choir makes over 200 appearances in four to five major tours annually. In its history, the choir has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, The St. Olaf Choir, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, and several opera singers including Jessye Norman, Frederica von Stade and Kathleen Battle. The choir has had television appearances on NBC's Today show and is featured on sixteen recordings. One of its members in 1951–1952, Chet Allen was cast as Amahl in Gian Carlo Menotti's first ever opera for television, Amahl and the Night Visitors on the Hallmark Hall of Fame, then on NBC.