The Amabile (pronounced Ah-mah-bee-lay) Youth Singers is an auditioned group of 60 young women whose ages range from 12 to 23 years. The choir exists to give its members musical experience of the highest possible calibre and to act as a training organization to develop musical talents. Its repertoire covers all musical styles ranging from Medieval to Avant-Garde.

Founded in 1985 by conductors John Barron and Brenda Zadorsky, the AYS quickly rose to national and international prominence with several competition wins. The choir has won the CBC Biennial Choral Competition (Youth Category) every time since its initial entry in 1986. In 1994, 1996 and 1998 it also won the prize for the Best Performance of a Canadian Work in this competition. In 1994 it also won the Healey Willan Grand Prize for the Best Choral Programme and Performance. The choir has competed successfully in Europe twice(1987 and 1989), and toured Australia and New Zealand in 1992. In 1993, the choir was named winner in the Youth Choir Category of the international choral competition Let the Peoples Sing sponsored by the CBC and the European Broadcasting Union. In 1997 the choir repeated its success by winning the Let the Peoples Sing youth choir division in a live by satellite competition.

In 1992 the choir's second CD (with Canadian baritone, Kevin McMillan) was announced as the Most Outstanding Choral recording 1990-1992 by the Association of Canadian Choral conductors.

The 1994-95 10th Anniversary season included a trip to Washington D.C. for the ACDA Biennial National Choral Conference where the choir was highly acclaimed and a trip to New York where the AYS sang in an all-Canadian Choral Concert in Carnegie Hall. In July 1996 the choir toured England, Wales and Ireland and competed in the Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales.

Highlights of the 1998-1999 season included a tour to Greece where they became Gold Medal winners in the Children's Choir Category at the 18th International Festival of Sacred Music in Preveza, as well as winning a special award for Best Performance Overall of a National Folksong (Nukapianguaq).

For their fifteeth anniversary, the choir held a gala reunion concert at Christmas, hosted the Amabile Festival bringing in special guest Denise Pelley, won the CBC Copmetition for the eight consecutive time and released "Deep Peace", a compilation of some of their greatest works. The following season they recorded their most recent CD, "Family Tree" which was released in December 2001.