About Pennsylvania Girlchoir

Commonwealth Youthchoirs 2010 Annual Report

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..

Pennsylvania Girlchoir 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

Carmen with Opera Company of Philadelphia
world premiere of Thomas Pasatieri's A Charm of Moonlight at Philadelphia Museum of Art (part of 2011 PIFA)
world premiere of Jonathan Leshnoff’s Hope: An Oratorio with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia (part of 2011 PIFA)
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
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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