Mr. D. Shawn Berry
Founder, Artistic Director
D. Shawn Berry is Co-Founder, Artistic Director and Lead Conductor for the Young Singers of Palm Beaches. Under his supervision the organization has grown to 6 choirs with over 300 singers ranging in ages from 8 to 18 years old. The choirs participated in the 2006 Mozart Festival in Vienna and Salzburg, Austria, Boston in 2005, at the Lincoln Center in New York City in 2007, and Walt Disney World Children in Harmony Choral Festival.
He graduated with honors from Marshall University in Huntington, WV, where he earned his BA and MA in Music Education. He worked in the public schools for 24 years in the areas of vocal and instrumental music with all grade levels.
While directing choirs in the public schools Mr. Berry worked as the Director of Vocal Music at the nationally recognized Bak Middle School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, FL. While at Bak his choruses were selected to perform at the American Choral Directors National Convention in New York City, The Kennedy Center Festival of Gold, the American Choral Directors Southern Division Convention, as well as recording for the Silver Burdette Middle School Music Textbook Series. He has conducted honor and all-county choirs in Florida, West Virginia and North Carolina.
He is an active composer and arranger and has numerous publications with a variety of publishing houses. His professional affiliations are ASCAP and ACDA. His compositions have been performed by choir at local levels and by choirs at ACDA National and by All State Choirs.
In addition to Young Singers, Mr. Berry is Programs Director for the Center for Creative Education (“CCE”) and pianist at the United Methodist Church of the Palm Beaches.