Our Mission

Seattle Girls Choir provides a robust education in the choral arts, helping girls build skills to succeed in life, and enriching the cultural landscape of the Pacific Northwest.

About Seattle Girls Choir

Founded in 1982, Seattle Girls Choir provides a comprehensive and progressive choral education with an emphasis on vocal technique, musical literacy, and ensemble performance. The choir regularly collaborates with other Seattle area arts organizations and performs at some of the most prestigious national and international choral festivals and competitions.

We have six progressive levels of instruction for girls in kindergarten through high school, as well as an elementary school training choir and our contemporary choir for teens. Each choir season’s rehearsals run congruent to the school year, September through June. Instruction includes music theory, sight singing, ear training, vocal training, and performance skills.

Yes, it’s hard work. But it’s worth it. Seattle Girls Choir is where girls come to gain serious music skills, while having serious fun!

Choir Highlights

Awards:

  • International Youth and Music Festival, first place award – Vienna, Austria
  • Youth Choir Division: Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, first place award – Wales
  • Children’s Folk Division: Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, 2nd place award – Wales
  • Youth Choir & Chamber Choir divisions: International Choral Kathaumixw – Canada: SGC has won 1st place in various categories multiple times they have attended. 1986, 1988, 2000, 2014, 2018

Special Performance Opportunities:

  • Pacific International Choral Festival (PICFEST) Young Women’s Choral Festival – 2016
  • Salzburg Festival Opening Concert, Salzburg, Austria – July 2009
  • American Choral Director’s Association (ACDA) Northwest Division Convention, Portland, OR – March 2006
  • Pacific International Children’s Choral Festival, Eugene, OR – June 2005, 2007, 2014
  • World Festival of Women’s Singing – Featured Choir, Salt Lake City Feb. 4-7, 2004
  • Czech Sacred Music Festival, Prague – Featured Choir, 2003
  • Seattle Girls Choir 20th Anniversary Concert – Benaroya Symphony Hall, Seattle – June, 2002
  • World Festival of Women’s Singing (Americafest) – Co-host choir with Elektra – 2001 concerts at Town Hall, St James Cathedral and Benaroya Symphony Hall, Seattle
  • ACDA National Convention, San Antonio, TX – March 2001
  • Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica & Concert at St. Ignatius in Rome – July 2000
  • Portland International Children’s Choir Festival – “Featured American Choir” – 1998
  • Harvard University Festival of Women’s Choirs – 1996
  • International Choral Sympaatti – Tampere & Helsinki, Finland – 1990
  • Goodwill Arts Festival: “Soviet-American Yourh Choir Concert” – 1990
  • Music Educators National Conference (MENC, WMEA) – National convention, Anaheim, CA – 1986
  • Hosted some of the world’s finest young choirs in Seattle (the Moran Choir of Israel, MaedchenChor Hannover, the Tapiola Choir of Finland, the Shchedryk Choir of Ukraine, and many others!)

National & International Tours:

  • European Concert Tours: 1985, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2016, and 2022
  • AmericaFest 1994: America’s first traveling multicultural choral festival. One of four Founding Choirs (the others were Tapiola Choir of Finland, Efroni Choir of Israel and Schedryk Choir of Ukraine.) Concerts in Minneapolis, Des Moines, Chicago, Grand Rapids, Toronto, Quebec City, the Maritimes and New England.
  • Millennium Jubilee Cathedral Tour: Prime Voci sang in cathedrals and churches in Vienna, Salzburg, Munich, Venice, Ravenna, Siena, Florence and Rome (at the invitation of Pope John Paul II) in the summer of 2000. This was a great experience for us as a non-sectarian community choir!