The WASHINGTON COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL CHORALE, formed in 2000 by Douglas Bischoff, was begun to provide high school students who love to sing to challenge themselves as part of a distinguished choral ensemble.  In addition to learning and rehearsing choral techniques related to ensemble singing, WCHSC rehearsals include vocal training, coaching, eurhythmics, ear training, music reading, and performance techniques. Their eclectic repertoire includes Renaissance madrigals, contemporary, folk music, jazz, popular standards, hymns, and art songs. The group has performed locally at parks, hotels, concert halls, churches and schools throughout Washington, Warren, and Saratoga Counties as well as Vermont, with its most prestigious performance at Carnegie Hall in 2003.  The group has recently  added musical theater to their pursuits, with their first production Guys and Dolls performed in March 2005.

The Chorale's rehearsals are held throughout the academic year at the Untied Church on Salem Street in Greenwich, one or two evenings a week and occasionally on Saturdays.  Each year they also hold an overnight retreat.  The concert season runs from October through June.  In 2005, the Chorale will be performing at Hubbard Hall, The First Presbyterian Church of Glens Falls, St. Joseph's Church in Greenwich, and in Vermont.

Director, Douglas Bischoff, began his conducting and teaching career in Yonkers, NY, directing ensembles with singers and instrumentalists ranging in age from young children to senior citizens.  In 1986 he moved to Cambridge, NY where he taught chorus and theatre at Cambridge Central School until 2000.  He is the former director of the Arlington Chorale and Community Choral Society and is currently organist/choirmaster at the East Arlington Federated Church.  He received his baccalaureate degree in Music Education from West Chester State College and his Master of Arts from New York University.  His ensembles have performed at Disney World, in Canada, England, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Romania, and in many venues in the New York metropolitan area.

Spurred by WCHSC members, the Village Theatre Ensemble was begun to present theatrical productions.  Guys and Dolls was WCHSC's first production as VTE, which is open to all high school students in the area who wish to participate in theatrical productions.