Pittsburgh Girls Choir

Since 2005, the Pittsburgh Girls Choir has been committed to transforming the lives of our choristers by creating communities of compassion, excellence, and mutual respect. While our focus is on teaching the beauty of music and performance, we also prioritize teaching self-confidence and leadership through an exemplary music education program for girls in first through twelfth grades, as well as a women's choir.

An important part of our program is our annual Concentio tour where our high school choir gets to travel across the country, and even world, as a community! This June we will travel across Pennsylvania to perform for new audiences, including assisted living facilities in Pittsburgh and Lancaster, take part in master classes, meet singers from other girls choirs, sightsee, and have meaningful experiences together as a choir.

Tours are such an important part of the overall PGC experience, but they also require plenty of planning and expenses. So much goes into a regular PGC season behind the scenes. So, what does it take to keep the Pittsburgh Girls Choir singing, and how are those costs paid for?

Because of the generous support of donors like you, experiences like our annual tours are possible for us and generations of girls to come. Help us create memories that will stay with our choir the rest of our lives!

Since 2005, the Pittsburgh Girls Choir has been committed to transforming the lives of our choristers by creating communities of compassion, excellence, and mutual respect. While our focus is on teaching the beauty of music and performance, we also prioritize teaching self-confidence and leadership through an exemplary music education program for girls in first through twelfth grades, as well as a women's choir. One of the core values of our organization is service. We teach our choristers that performance is not about self-glorification, but rather is an act of service to audiences.

This Spring, we ask you to please consider making a donation to the Pittsburgh Girls Choir. Your gift will go directly towards supporting the experiences of our choristers.

All proceeds raised from our Spring fund drive will help us:

We are committed to making sure our doors are open to any girl or woman who wishes to sing. We do this through our sliding scale tuition model, which makes tuition more affordable across the socioeconomic spectrum.

That being said, tuition covers less than 50% of our total annual expenses. What does it take to keep the Pittsburgh Girls Choir singing, and how are those costs paid for…

Besides paying our talented teaching staff, and covering rent and rehearsal materials such as music, many other expenses go into making our program run successfully behind the scenes. These expenses include the cost of insurance, performance rights, administrative costs, marketing, our website, and more. Through the generosity of our community and donors like you, we are proud to be able to keep our tuition affordable while also providing an incredible experience for our choirs.

This year we finally returned to our first fully in-person season since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, more than ever, we are committed to rebuilding stronger than before and providing a music education program that will benefit and stay with our students for their entire lives.

Please join us this Spring and help us keep the Pittsburgh Girls Choir flourishing for generations to come!

Pittsburgh Girls Choir is delighted to return to a full season of in-person rehearsals and concerts this year! We are excited to announce the return of our All-Choir Holiday Concert on December 3, which highlights the singers of every PGC ensemble and will feature John Rutter's Cycle of Carol's: Dancing Day. This holiday season, also join our two most advanced choirs, Chamber Choir and Concentio, on December 10 for our first holiday Candlelight Concert "Transeamus" (meaning "to cross over"). This concert was created to transport our audience out of the chaos and craziness of the holiday season and to envelop them with beauty and peace. Guest harpist, Nuiko Waden, will be featured in both Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols and John Rutter's Dancing Day. The concert will conclude with Dan Forrest's ethereal Silent Night with violinist, Leah Givelber.

Britten composed Ceremony of Carols in the dark days of the Second World War as an expression of hope and belief in a better future. Originally written for children's choir, he conceived of the piece literally as the voice of that future.

Like Britten himself, Pittsburgh Girls Choir believes in a bright future. We believe, like Britten, that music is hope. We believe that music education enriches students’ lives, now and in later life.

We believe that everyone should have that opportunity, and our tuition is adjusted according to household income so that every girl who wants to sing with us can join us, whatever her family resources. That isn’t an easy commitment for a small arts education program, but it is our commitment. Because of support from generous donors like you, we are able to ensure that our doors remain open to any girl who wants to sing.

Please help us hold the door open.

 

The Pittsburgh Girls Choir is committed to artistic excellence and performance through an exemplary music education program, and welcomes girls of all races, ethnicities and economic backgrounds into our supportive community.