About Pennsylvania Girlchoir

Commonwealth Youthchoirs Annual Report FY2008

Bios of the Music Staff

Founded in the fall of 2004, Pennsylvania Girlchoir has grown to over 160 girls from five counties in southeastern Pennsylvania, as well as from New Jersey and Delaware..

Under the direction of Music Director Mark Anderson and Associate Music Director Jodi Bohr, the organization consists of five choirs: Schola Cantorum, Kantorei, Troubadours, Trouvères, and Motets.

As a member of the Commonwealth Youthchoir organization, Pennsylvania Girlchoir shares its mission: to offer excellent choral music education and performance opportunities to singers from diverse economic and racial-ethnic backgrounds, while nurturing leadership skills, building character and encouraging self-discipline.

The brother choir of the Pennsylvania Girlchoir is Keystone State Boychoir.

A Sampling of Recent Performances

• world premiere of Kile Smith's Two Psalms
• Princeton Theological Seminary
• Christ and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Westport, CT 
• Benjamin Britten's St Nicolas First Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia
• St John's UCC, Lansdale, PA 
• First Presbyterian Church of Germantown
• Joint concert with Princeton High School Concert Choir
• PG Winter Choral Festival with Princeton Girlchoir and the Children's Chorus of Washington, DC  
• The Hill at Whitemarsh Fort Washington, PA
• Cathedral Village Andorra, PA 
• Carmina Burana with the Philadelphia Orchestra
• On the Transmigration of Souls (a Philadelphia premiere of a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams) with Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia
• Elijah with Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia
• La Bohème with Opera Company of Philadelphia
• The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
• Public Broadcasting System's President's Dinner, honoring newscasters Robin MacNeil and Jim Lehrer
• The arrival of the U.S.S. Cole at the Welcome America celebration at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia
• Commerce Bank President's Award Ceremonies
• Various concert series in the greater Philadelphia region
• The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts 

Pennsylvania Girlchoir office: 215.247.6901
For information about auditions: pgmembership@cychoirs.org

Commonwealth Youthchoirs Administrative Offices
35 West Chelten Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19144
215.849.1762

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